Lauren Bravo

www.ukgameshows.com The other day I turned on an episode of QI. The show seemed different to normal, and it took me a few minutes to r...

My boyfriend is ill. Everything smells of Olbas Oil. There is a trail of tissues running through the flat like a germy version of Hansel...

Of course, it wouldn’t be January without discovering something new that is killing us. This year it is sugar. Now that cigarettes are...

I’m writing this on Blue Monday - everyone’s favourite pseudoscientific PR stunt of a holiday! Next to Black Friday, Mauve Monday and Hide i...

Naturally, as a woman with functioning faculties and a passing interest in gauzy fabric, I love awards season. What more does one need t...

I have made two resolutions for 2014. The first is to learn to say ‘no’ more. Specifically to say no to the kind of strictly unnecess...

1. Be a bad parent! Not a terrible parent, obviously – don’t go forgetting to feed them or buying them Robin Thicke CDs. But to captu...

Image: Save the Children Happy National Pigs in Blankets Day! How many have you eaten? I’ve had eight. It would have been more, but I...

For something that has been happening with pretty dependable regularity every year since at least 1988 (and for a fair while before that...

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 throu...

It’s nice when you suddenly discover you have a hobby. I didn’t try on purpose to get one - in fact I’ve always been sort of hobby-devoi...

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 jin...

Hey everybody, I have a new theory!  Gather round, gather round. It’ll be better than my theory about how silica gel is probably utt...

For every generation there’s a marker that officially means you are getting old. Not old-old, but… established. Seasoned. The moment ...

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 e...

My boyfriend and I have now been cohabiting for three months, and it’s been an exciting voyage of discoveries. Deciding whether...