Tag: family

In many of these residents, I also saw glimpses of my Nan, realising she wasn’t alone in her inner conflicts between feeling cared for and feeling controlled.

After watching a Tiktok that said we have already spent the majority of the time we get to ever have with our siblings by...

"You could tell no one, And it would come anyway."

Under Oxford’s dreaming spires and overlooking Magpie Lane’s centuries-old cobbles is a simple modern kitchen. I like to think of it as my friends’...

"Whether fasting or feasting, the togetherness is what’s important."

'I can feel myself slowly metamorphose into a boy who cried “divorce!”'

It has long been said that breakfast constitutes one of the most important meals of the day. Really, there is nothing more refreshing than...

I never really thought to ask about my family. I knew that some of us came over from Russia, Ukraine, Poland – but I...

The ostracism I felt had forced me to choose between my identity and the chance to have friends.

I sat in my A-level History lessons, staring at images of prisoners in Nazi extermination camps, alongside the same boys who had grown up in that school and probably participated in its “humorous” and “edgy” Nazi fetishism, trying to make it all fit together. I was very quiet, focusing. Still I couldn’t.

The custom of using chopsticks differs across cultures, across countries, even across households. But wherever you are, using chopsticks takes practice, patience and perseverance.

Schitt’s Creek is a show where the main character talks to her many, many wigs. It is a show which manages to make a...

"‘Look, you have drunk £3.15. You fool, that’s £3.15 you’ve eaten.’ Clink, the cup on the saucer, the coins sliding down my throat."

Back in my childhood bedroom, I am stuck in an unpleasant time-warp, sixteen again and agonizing over awful boys, listening to utterly miserable Smiths songs. It’s the deja-vu experience no one wants.