When breaking into a new social scene, it’s easy to be dazzled by the free booze and the canapés. Let’s face it: miniature food is an impressive culinary achievement (Just how small are the chefs who make mini hotdogs?) and a subsidised session towards oblivion is almost too hard to refuse. Social climbing has been [...]

Centuries from now, archaeologists, anthropologists and historians will scratch their heads in unison whilst trying to explain why members of the female species (and some male) appear to have an uneven gait, almost as though their front leg is shorter than their rear; symptomatic of a polio sufferer. Bones will be pored over, then-antiquated digital photographs [...]

“Gee, you shouldn’t have. No, really you shouldn’t.” Sound familiar? It’s that predicament we face each year when confronted by those around us who invariably have poor taste and attempt to thrust their impaired gift-buying judgement upon us. Of course, you should accept anyone’s generosity graciously, but what do you do when left with armfuls [...]

With only a handful of days until Christmas, you may already have started to receive cards. Yes, cards—those little missives of good cheer and a vague sense of guilt because you haven’t done anything about yours. Do you find it weird that the cards are from people you have seen only half an hour ago and say, [...]

Dear Agony Uncle, I found out entirely by accident that my husband urinates in sinks. He does it not only at home, but in other people’s homes as well. Afterwards, he rinses the sink with water from the faucet, so at least he’s making an effort at cleaning after himself. When I spoke to him [...]

Last night at a rooftop party, I was drinking beer and buying vintage clothes in the interest of charity. Perhaps not the most immediate correlation, however, I now know that I can look rather fetching in a women’s pair of Scanlan & Theodore trousers. Who would’ve thought? With my hawk-eyed vision finely attuned to seeking [...]