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Lauren Bravo: December 2013
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Is my real name. Saturday, 21 December 2013. Six ways to make your Christmas more like one in a film. Be a bad parent! Have an almost implausible disaster! Whichever you choose, be sure to fix it by midnight on Christmas Eve or it’ll be stuck like that all year. I’ll leave you to make your best guess as to what eggnog might actually be. Or just make a glass of Bird’s custard and put some rum in it. Go to a department store! If you can get accidentally locked in, sleep in the bedding section and do a mont...
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Lauren Bravo: In which the boiler is making a noise
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Is my real name. Tuesday, 5 November 2013. In which the boiler is making a noise. The boiler is making a noise. It makes a lot of noises, generally all of the time it’s on, but this is a new noise. Specifically, a jingly noise. “Did you hear that? 8221; I ask my boyfriend. “The boiler is making a jingly noise.”. 8221; I say, as it does it again. “Jingly. It sounds like there’s a set of keys jingling about. That’s not normal.”. This could be exactly like in my old flat, when I thought we had a gas leak an...
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Lauren Bravo: 24 hour party people
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Is my real name. Wednesday, 27 November 2013. 24 hour party people. On the face of it, the tubes running all night from 2015 seemed rather brilliant news. No more night buses! No more two hour crawls through the backwaters of the metropolis with your sleeping head half resting in a box of Chicken Cottage! No more strategically planning your seating with reference to whoever looks least likely to be sick in the aisle! 8221; and skip off like Cinderella. No one can argue with the last tube argument; we...
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Lauren Bravo: In which we're truly blue, but not because it's Monday
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Is my real name. Tuesday, 21 January 2014. In which we're truly blue, but not because it's Monday. I’m writing this on Blue Monday - everyone’s favourite pseudoscientific PR stunt of a holiday! Next to Black Friday, Mauve Monday and Hide in a Wendy House Wednesday, that is. But ultimately, the thing about Blue Monday is that it becomes even more so when everyone harps on about how the whole thing is rubbish, and you’re left confused because actually, you do feel quite sad. And if it’s weather that ...
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Lauren Bravo: In which one isn't nearly enough
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Is my real name. Monday, 10 February 2014. In which one isn't nearly enough. The other day I turned on an episode of QI. The show seemed different to normal, and it took me a few minutes to realise why: there were three women the panel. Three women and an Alan Davies. I blinked hard a few times, and checked the listings to see if it was some sort of QI: Oestrogen Special. The main issue we want to be fretting over isn't whether Cohen's rule will turn telly into a ladyfest full of token women padding out ...
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Lauren Bravo: In which love is a hot lasagne
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Is my real name. Monday, 28 October 2013. In which love is a hot lasagne. My boyfriend and I have now been cohabiting for three months, and it’s been an exciting voyage of discoveries. Deciding whether or not I actually care when he leaves the loo seat up (I don’t, as it currently stands); discovering the delightful ways in which our separate tastes in décor can be merged (“how about we put the copies of Modern Railway magazine UNDER the patchwork throw? I AM YOUR BEST FRIEND”, whereas he sees it a...
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Lauren Bravo: "Murjsdjahsgj", she wrote
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Is my real name. Monday, 28 October 2013. Murjsdjahsgj", she wrote. One of the biggest regrets of my adult life so far is that I still don’t have a proper signature. Signatures, as everyone who ever spent hours practicing theirs in the back of a biology textbook knows, are one of the defining markers of grown-updom. They should be an instinctive flourish, blossoming naturally from your pen like a natural extension of your personality, as you write a cheque for your brand new jet ski/fax machine/horse.
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Lauren Bravo: In which it ain't over till it's Overs
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Is my real name. Monday, 28 October 2013. In which it ain't over till it's Overs. For every generation there’s a marker that officially means you are getting old. Not old-old, but… established. Seasoned. The moment you realise certain avenues are probably now closed off to you forever. I would be a Steve Brookstein. A Christopher Maloney. They’d put me in a jazzy blazer and make me sway on a podium while the young’uns did cartwheels in hotpants. I wouldn’t even get the regio...8220;We could have an adult...
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Lauren Bravo: February 2014
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Is my real name. Monday, 10 February 2014. In which one isn't nearly enough. The other day I turned on an episode of QI. The show seemed different to normal, and it took me a few minutes to realise why: there were three women the panel. Three women and an Alan Davies. I blinked hard a few times, and checked the listings to see if it was some sort of QI: Oestrogen Special. The main issue we want to be fretting over isn't whether Cohen's rule will turn telly into a ladyfest full of token women padding out ...
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