I play the same song too many times
Hannah
Tonight I was supposed to finish a page of Maths, but Clair de Lune has been playing in my room for so long that I stopped counting. I know the…
2026
These four subjects keep interrupting each other
School starts properly next week. Or this week. It depends who you ask, and whether you count the afternoon they handed out the reading lists as “starting.” I have four…
The Nightingale and the Rose is a story about price
I read Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose on Thursday night, which was a mistake only because I then couldn’t fall asleep. It’s on the IGCSE World Literature list…
UK rates stayed at 3.75%. The next move might be up, not down.
In December the Bank of England cut Bank Rate to 3.75%, and the news sounded like a door opening. I remember the tone more than I remember any graph. It…
Luxury brands still sold handbags while holiday flights got wrecked.
There is a window in town with a bag on a pedestal, lit as if it were a small painting. I do not want the bag. I want to understand…
Food prices finally calmed down — because the big shops were scared to go first.
I have started keeping receipts, which is not a personality I planned. Not in a scrapbook. In the inside pocket of my bag, until they turn pale and I throw…
The war thousands of miles away is about to show up on the electricity bill.
I left my lamp on again while I was reading. My mum said the sentence she always says, the one about the bill, and I almost answered that a lamp…
The same holiday flight cost about a quarter more than last year.
There is a family chat that only wakes up when someone says the word “flights.” It woke up this week. A parent had searched a summer date we talked about…
The law now says your school cannot make you buy a pile of logo kit.
I emptied my PE bag onto the bedroom floor this week because the zip had started eating itself, and the pile looked like a small shop had fallen over. Logo…
Netflix went up by as much as $2 a month. Again.
The email arrived the way they always do: polite, designed, a little proud of itself. Netflix is going up. Again. On 26 March they raised US prices for the second…