Guest Post: The Mothership on life in the UK   It's not just the speed of driving and the volumes of traffic in the UK that scare me, I panic now when I enter a supermarket here. I am over-awed at the out-of-town shopping facilities available now and the sheer array of foodstuff . I find no pleasure in having to make a choice from 20 types of washing powder or 25 different breakfast cereals. Neither do I find joy in being able to buy … [Read more...]

I've always been crap at lying. You know how there are people who, if you ask how they are, convincingly say "I'm great!" and then six months later you find out that their cat died and their boyfriend left them for another man on the same day and you had absolutely no clue from the way she was acting. That's not me. I remember being really upset on meeting someone new once when I was at Uni- apparently they had been warned that "Kelly … [Read more...]