About Sophie

Trials & tribulations of my increasingly full-time girl-mode.

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Category: Creativity

  • Don’t Stop Me Now

    Seven weeks of full-time girl-mode and it’s going great. How I feel is simple… I’m burnin’ through the sky, yeahTwo hundred degrees, that’s why they call me [Sister] FahrenheitI’m travellin’ at the speed of lightI wanna make a supersonic woman of you After Queen, “Don’t Stop Me Now” It has been a very busy few…

  • Sophie Office Days: 1-30

    “[…] you are the only person I know who could wear a tutu to work and carry it off” (Day 14!) Now Sophie is confident enough to go into an office environment, she has to find suitable non-repeating outfits which won’t match anyone else’s. Sounds simple. It isn’t. So here we are: 30 days, 30…

  • Selective Recollection

    Memory is a truly amazing and complicated thing. The range and nature of things that we do, and do not, remember, is a confusing mess. This came to mind recently because of a specific recollection of mine. Some people I know can tell you what they ate in detail on any day stretching months or…

  • Nailing Technology

    Exciting and new (to me, and looking relatively new for everyone – but I don’t actually know how long these have been around) nail adhesive technology. There are a few things about nail glue that I have found rather frustrating. Firstly, it is fundamentally superglue – it’s the same chemical cocktail. But whereas superglue comes…

  • Size Specifics: Shocking Stockings

    More clothes size woes, but with a sneaky solution

  • Latent Creativity

    Saturday 2023-05-13 brings…. The Eurovision Final! Having singularly failed to obtain tickets for the event itself in Liverpool, I am instead travelling with some friends to the great City of Manchester to watch on a big screen in the VIP Lounge of a bar in the city centre. Manchester, especially the city centre, is extremely…