For the past couple of months I’ve been contemplating how to balance my interest for fashion and personal style with, well, musings from my actual personal life. I think some of you are here for the mix - both the spring mood boards and the dating updates - which I absolutely love. But a lot of you are also not here for that. You just want ideas on how to organize your closet, tips on how to style xyz and the occasional Bitesize. And that’s totally fine! I get it. Not everyone is comfortable reading about my failed attempts at dating and such.
Enter: Single diaries. This is where I’ll get real personal about being 30, being single and navigating hemorrhoids and bikini waxes all the things that come with it. You’ll get all the deets on my dating life, my desperate attempts at making more friends and my unfiltered thoughts on just about anything. And if this all sounds like an absolute nightmare, not to worry, just stay here on Good Talk where we’ll keep it more civilised.
Sound good? Yay!
Here’s a sneak peek from my first two newsletters over on Single diaries.
“He was a 6’2” dark-haired ex-rugby player who had pictures of spaghetti on his profile. Mind you, he did also have pictures of himself in swim trunks. And a video where he was doing pull-ups with perfect form.
When he first wrote, I didn’t reply. I could tell he wasn’t really looking for the mother to his children, at least not right now. But then one evening when I was feeling particularly unhappy with the prospect of going home to the once-happy-now-dreadful apartment I was sharing with my ex at the time, I messaged him back. And what do you know, he replied almost immediately.
I asked him what he was doing and he told me he was cooking dinner and enjoying a whisky. On a school night?? Oh, he must really be Italian. He asked me if I wanted to come over for a whisky or some ice cream, which I thought was cute. Romance isn’t dead, after all. So, we decided I would swing by his place after work for some ice cream.”
“Thursday, 1st May 2025
I was having dinner last night with a friend of mine (one of my closest in fact) and trying to explain to her why this situationship I’m in might actually be exactly what I need right now. Okay writing that sentence makes me feel the same way I did last night when talking to my friend: naive and a bit defensive. I have a feeling some of you (most of you) will read it and think “oh the things we tell ourselves…” but please, hear me out.
The thing is, I’m not going to sit here and pretend like I’m perfectly happy with the way he’s acting. Or communicating. Do I wish he wanted to see me every day? Yes. Do I wish he would say he can’t stop thinking about me and sent me little cute messages all throughout the day, letting me know I crossed his mind? Also yes. But in all honesty, that’s my ego talking. Or at least some sort of safety blanket behaviour.
Every relationship I’ve been in has begun in a similar way where we fall head over heels for each other, going from 0 to 100 over a period of a week or two and from there on out have been texting (if not spending time together) 24/7. It’s fun, it’s thrilling, it’s exhausting.”
Okay that’s it! Make sure to sign up for Single diaries if that sounds like a good time. No worries if not.
Talk soon xx
Ooh things are about to get sexy around here!
Love love love this for you!!!!!!!!