Love? Life? Joy!
Today I threw a full-on wobbly because the house was a little bit untidy. Two Fridays ago I had to leave a bar my boyfriend was playing a gig in because every time someone tried to talk to me I nearly broke down in uncontrollable, sobbing tears. I’ve cried when someone has looked at me just because they were looking... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Fire me up baby! From the Heart Lauren Williams Rant
Sometimes, just sometimes, you think you might be ready for something. And sometimes, when my friends are having babies and getting pets and doing all of that grown up stuff, I think I might be just about ready for that next step in life too. We’ve been talking about getting a puppy for some time. A lovely little bundle of... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Animal Planet Lauren Williams Love & Relationships
Yesterday, as I was sat against our living room radiator, cradling a cup of tea to warm my frozen fingers, whilst simultaneously attempting to stop the puppy from destroying everything in sight, the boyfriend popped his head around the door to say goodbye, with an added, ‘You haven’t got anything for Valentine’s Day, have you?’ And I hadn’t. And I... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Fire me up baby! Lauren Williams Love & Relationships Wise up!
I have the best job in the world. So I’m told by everyone I meet and so I tell everyone I meet. I mean, I get paid to travel the world and write about it. My time is my own, I can write to my heart’s content, or not, whenever or wherever I choose. I have the flexibility to get on... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Adventureland Careers Lauren Williams
I recently spent a month travelling around India. A month driving 3000 miles on roads that could hardly count as a dirt track, let alone something that was driveable in a vintage car older than my 26 years. But although the roads were life threatening and terrifying, that wasn’t our main concern. Being three white women travelling through the arse-end... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Adventureland Lauren Williams
I recently made a move to Scotland to chase my dreams of climbing mountains as much as possible. Instead, I found myself working all day every day and couldn’t even muster the energy to get up and go outside when I wasn’t working. This was not me. I am productive and outdoorsy and happy. I am not the type of... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Adventureland Lauren Williams Mirror Mirror: Self Improvement
It’s been a tough couple of weeks – I’m incredibly homesick (something my nomadic mindset found very hard to deal with!), the weather has been so vile and I work so many hours that my nature-loving, mountain-climbing self has been bound by four walls for what seems like eternity. There have been tears, lots of tears, and there has been a significant... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: From the Heart Lauren Williams
Something has happened this week that has not only taken sexism in the sporting world back a decade, but the fight against rape too. Ched Evans, recently found guilty of rape and sentenced to five years in prison, has been allowed to train with his old football team, Sheffield United. (Image via) So lets just take a look at this... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Lauren Williams Rant Wise up!
I got a text recently from a very good friend of mine ranting about the men in her office, the lasting statement being: ‘I bet mountains aren’t sexist!’ ‘No’, I thought. ‘No, they most certainly are not’, as I packed up my backpack for the day, opened my map and made sure I knew the route I was taking my... Read the rest of this post...
Categories: Adventureland Fire me up baby! Lauren Williams
I recently ruffled a few feathers that have cost me several friendships – friendships I don’t really expect to get back, and controversially, friendships I don’t really miss. You see, to me friendships are a two-way street. Of being both supportive for each other and making time for each other. A good friendship will last across continents and months of... Read the rest of this post...
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