Verbal High Fives

Staff announcement: I’m preggers, have a bun in the oven, am currently brewing a tiny human. I’ve been calling it T-Rex because we don’t know yet if it is a boy or a girl and for the longest time now it has looked decidedly like a baby reptilian cast member from Jurassic Park. (Don’t worry: mummy and daddy love you!) Being pregnant gets to you to consider the truly important questions in life such as ‘Why am I starving at 1:43am??’ Prepare to be jealous - I’m hungry like literally all the time. T-Rex is making my body behave like I am composed of an entire male teenage rugby team that must fuel up before the big game in 2 hour’s time. What else could explain why I’m eating every 2 hours and have been a vegetarian since 2017 but suddenly cannot stop watching videos of people cooking bacon on TikTok and fantasising about eating a Big Mac? I also don’t feel that “mood swings” accurately describe the emotional rollercoaster that is pregnancy - try “personality transplant”. I’ve never been...

Hey everybody. Dare I say ‘Happy’ New Year? We have survived the first 17 days of 2021 and completed the 14th Level of Jumanji - so verbal high fives to all of you because it hasn’t exactly been uneventful. My master plan for starting this year was to ease into 2021 real slow without making direct eye contact with it in the hopes that it wouldn’t attack... but Lockdown 3.0, widespread flooding in England and two new highly transmissible strains of Covid later, clearly that approach backfired. Meanwhile in America, Donald Trump is having a crack at dismantling democracy because things didn’t go his way at the polls so he began messing around with an item that could potentially destroy Capitol Hill, namely; Spotify (which he has since been banned from using). In December Trump began repeatedly bleating fake news via his social media channels which resulted in a PR media nightmare that no one could possibly have anticipated (unless, of course, that person had a higher level of political a...