Another Week In Bullet Points

Sunny Side Up #29

Tuesday 21 Jan

• Lie-in. 8am. This is luxury.

• Go with Mum to her pedicure appointment. Her nail lady is 32 weeks pregnant. I can’t remember the last time I saw a pregnant woman. Legends, all of them.

• 10am. Smear test. Don’t feel old enough for a smear, but life comes at you fast.

• Decide that means I probably ought to grow up.

• Stop at M&S for the new issue of Vogue. The nice manager tells me he knows I secretly love reading New Scientist. It made me laugh, but written down I’m not sure it translates.

• Home. Hot chocolate.

• Write.

• Sleep through Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 1. Shame. I like that one.

• Edit last week’s Sunny Side Up. Decide it’s the most boring thing I’ve ever read, so re-write it all.

• Sleep.

Wednesday 22 Jan

• Early-ish start.

• Drive to London.

• Pret. Tuna & Cucumber baguette, creature of habit.

• Mooch around Covent Garden.

• Am stopped by two girls asking if I’ll be in a TikTok. ‘SORRY NO’ I say, and desperately run away.

• Hide in GANNI. They haven’t followed me. Safe here.

• Try not to make any spontaneous, ill-advised purchases.

• Celebrity spotting of the day: Ben Miles. We think.

• Make a spontaneous, ill-advised purchase.

• God, I am soooooo easy to sell to.

• I am a saleswoman’s DREAM.

• Check into hotel.

• Watch episode of Severance series 1. Late to the party.

• Get ready.

• Dinner. Steak frites.

• National Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest.

• Decide that Ncuti Gatwa is in fact the most beautiful human I have ever laid eyes on. He is so athletic, he practically glows, his smile is so perfect you cannot help but smile with him, I have no idea how he kept his energy up. 10/10. Also was buzzing to see Hugh Skinner because I’ve loved him for a very long time too and think he needs to be in more. A really great comedy actor but still so underrated? I need more of him!!

• Walk home. Admire a lit-up London.

• Hate staying in hotel rooms by myself.

• Turn off air-con because it’s noisy.

• It turns back on again.

• I turn it off again.

• It turns back on again.

• I turn it off again.

• It turns back on again.

• I decide the room is haunted.

Thursday 23 Jan

• 8am. Wake up.

• Get ready.

• Listen to new episode of The Rest is Entertainment.

• It rains.

• Breakfast. Chocolate croissant.

• Brief shopping trip. Buy a copy of I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee.

• Why does everyone in London move SO FAST?! WHY ARE YOU IN A HURRY?! I’m not someone who moves at a terribly slow, leisurely pace but I certainly don’t play “the floor is lava” on every street I walk down. I’m not a city gurl.

• Tube. Northern line.

• Drive home.

• Listen to audiobook. Beach Read by Emily Henry. Not bad!

• Arrive home.

• Wash hair.

• Dry hair.

• TV. Pretty Little Liars.

• Conflicted. Am I really enjoying this show or am I trying to feel some nostalgia? Am I even feeling that? All I am is horrified at the teacher-student relationship. It’s scarier than the creepy text messages.

• Dinner. Spaghetti bolognese. Let’s hear it for bolognese!

• Edit Friday post. Hope people like it.

• The Traitors.

• OMG.

• Sleep.

Friday 24 Jan

• Wake up. (Early.)

• No heating. No hot water. Window cleaners.

• Read

  Michelle
  ’s Open Hearted Joys, as is routine on a Friday.

• Catch up on Ask Alanna.

  Alanna Duffield
  is Substack’s Dear Dolly, fyi.

• Work. Contrary to how it looks this week, I actually do work really hard.

• Work really hard.

• Leave. (Early.)

• Really loving

  Allie Smith
  ’s Substack at the minute so caught up on The Marginalia which is a fantastic new word to add to my vocabulary.

• Car. Scenic route. Lots of fields. Déjà vu.

• Football match.

• Car. Motorway.

• Listen to podcast: Best Book Forward with Beth O’Leary.

• Sleep.

Saturday 25 Jan

• Breakfast. Croissant, jam, cinnamon bun, raspberries, mango.

• The Traitors final. Anxiety levels high.

• Wait for adrenaline to settle.

• Go out to meet friends.

• Bump into Liza on a walk. Plan to meet for breakfast tomorrow.

• Come home at three.

• Georgia & Jim arrive for dinner. Fajitas.

• Catch up on The Traitors Uncloaked.

• Exhausted. Sleep at 11.

Sunday 26 Jan

• Meet Liza for breakfast at 10, but don’t eat till 11 by which time we are ravenous.

• Stay longer for hot chocolates. Sundays are soothing.

• Retreat back home at 12.30.

• Watch The Road Trip under a fluffy blanket.

• Feel stressed at the work I know is waiting for me. There aren’t enough hours in the day and I haven’t learned to juggle everything yet.

• Text Beth: ‘So busy but learning to juggle.’

• Procrastinate by trying to do my curly hair routine but it just goes frizzy this time.

• Dinner: potatoes. Dessert: bread & butter pudding.

• Write.

• Re-watch the ending of The Traitors series two, because to this day I can’t think of more gut-wrenching television than Harry looking Molly in the eye and admitting he’s lied to her this whole time.

• Write some more.

• Listen to Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? by Taylor Swift and imagine I’m on that slidey stagey thing she was on at the Eras Tour.

• Read ‘In Search of Today’s Third Places’ by

  Michelle
  .

• Write again. Wonder what happens to all the words when they’re deleted.

• Consider buying a full subscription to The Rest is Entertainment. Like, is it a bad thing to do with your money when you’re trying to save for a home?

• Decide if I cancel another subscription, then the new subscription is justified.

• Podcast: Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe.

• Reply from Beth: ‘THAT’S SO COOL! I’ve always wanted to learn to juggle!’ God bless her.

• Sleep at 11.30. Ish.

• (That’s a lie. It’s definitely later but I have work in the morning so hopefully if I convince myself I’ve had more hours of sleep I won’t be as tired in the morning.)

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