The Accidental Deep Dive You Didn’t See Coming
Some days aren’t meant for plans. They drift in slowly, give you space to breathe, and before you know it—you’ve given your full attention to something you absolutely didn’t expect to care about. Maybe you were scrolling out of habit, maybe you were avoiding doing something productive, but at some point… there it was: pressure […]
A Moment That Turned Into Something Unexpected
There are days when life feels like a neatly organised list, and then there are days that behave more like a guessing game. Today landed firmly in the second category. I woke up planning absolutely nothing, which felt strangely luxurious, like being given a blank notebook with permission not to write a single thing in […]
The Extremely Overconfident Umbrella Who Wanted to Control the Weather
There once was an umbrella named Reginald who lived in a hallway cupboard and had developed a wildly inaccurate belief: he thought he could control the weather. Not metaphorically. Literally. Reginald was convinced that every time he was opened, it rained—because he, personally, commanded the sky. He wasn’t just an umbrella.He was, in his mind… […]
A Documentary on a Brain That Was Supposed to Be Productive but Got Distracted by the Universe
Some people wake up with focus, direction, clarity—and then there are the rest of us, who open our eyes and immediately begin thinking, “If a potato looks in the mirror, does it recognise itself?” There is no warm-up. No build-up. Just instant, unfiltered curiosity that nobody ordered. You may intend to act like a functioning […]
The Guild of People Who Hold Deep Conversations With Their Furniture
Every Wednesday at exactly 6:32pm, a peculiar collective gathers in a living room that has seen more emotional intensity than most theatres. They call themselves The Guild of Conversational Furniture Owners—a group of people who genuinely believe their household items have thoughts, feelings, and possibly unresolved trauma. The evening began with Felicity standing beside her […]
The Day the Clouds Tried to Send Emails
Nobody expected the sky to start participating in communication. And yet, sometime after breakfast, the clouds stopped behaving like fluffy weather decorations and started forming extremely specific messages — not poetic, not urgent, just… oddly practical. The first cloud drifted into sentence form above the high street, spelling carpet cleaning ashford in soft, floating letters. […]
A Moderately Alarming Account of Why the Sugar Bowl Is No Longer Trusted
At 7:14am, I walked into the kitchen and discovered the sugar bowl had relocated itself from the counter to the middle of the floor, lid off, spoon inside, like it was staging a silent protest. I stood there, half asleep, wondering if sugar could develop ambition or if gravity had simply given up. I reached […]
An Entirely Unnecessary Tale About a Goldfish Who Believed It Was Destined for Greatness
Goldie wasn’t like the other goldfish. While the others were perfectly happy swimming in circles, bumping into plastic plants, and forgetting everything every seven seconds, Goldie knew he was meant for more. He didn’t know what “more” was, but he was confident it involved fame, destiny, and possibly a tiny crown. Life in the tank […]
The Strange Satisfaction of Watching the Outside Wake Up Again
There’s a very specific kind of moment in life when you walk outside, look around, and suddenly realise the whole exterior of your home has been quietly turning into a documentary about neglect. The roof looks like it’s planning to photosynthesise. The patio has become a visual scrapbook of every season since 2014. The driveway […]
The Academy of Questionably Gifted Pigeons
Once a month, on the roof of a building nobody remembers constructing, the Academy of Questionably Gifted Pigeons held its official meeting. These were not your ordinary city pigeons—the kind that panic-walk near chips and stare at you like they’re judging your whole life. No, these were educated pigeons, trained in the arts of confusion, […]