My Year in Pictures

2010 has been full of... actually, it's just been full. Here are some of my favourite (and not so) favourite bits.


Happy New Year! (January)
Nothing happens in January. Well, nothing I took a photo of anyway. Plotting and scheming happen in January. But this was New Year's Eve. With the best people in the world. Yes, we're all wearing hats. New Year's Day dinner was Turkish food in a BYO. We BOO ingredients to make Bloody Mary's.


Paris (February)
A budget weekend with three of the best girls. We did nothing very much really. But we had the best time. I adore all three of them. Fancy them a bit too, if I'm honest. They're prettiness personified.


Domestic Sluttery's first birthday (March)
Me with the girls on Domestic Sluttery's first birthday. Was pretty in awe of that day. And those girls.


Jim Haynes (April)
My favourite event of the year (and there's been a lot to choose from). I'm incredibly lucky that my career means I get to work with amazing people. The Jim Haynes event with Fernandez and Leluu was fantastic. He's easily one of the most interesting people that I've ever met.


The Depression (May)
I came off my anti-depressants in May this year. I kept the last empty packet. I hope I'll always be well from now on, but I'm not scared of not being on them anymore. I'm just not scared anymore. It's been a long time since I've been able to say that.


Kenya (June)
The best bit of my year, without a doubt. I still haven't quite got over seeing giraffes in the wild, being woken up by hippos and being three foot away from a herd of elephants.


Estonia (July)
This was such a fabulous holiday (no mean feat considering I'd been rushed to hospital with suspected malaria ten days before we flew out). Alex is an excellent holiday-ing partner. But the highlight was that hot chocolate.


Alex Moves In (August)
The most awesome housemate. Here's us in the perfect Cotswolds, just before we rushed back inside and Gemma made us dinner. My house feels more like a home since Alex moved in. And there's often more cake.


Franks (September)
I spent most of summer being sick from a virus I picked up in Africa, so I didn't do very much of anything. But I did go to Franks, I did drink cocktails on a the roof of a multistorey carpark in Peckham, and the view was pretty amazing.


The Arctic Circle (October)
Vast, white, nothingness. Beautiful, scary, nothing. Still haven't quite wrapped my head around the fact that people live here.


Friends and birthdays (November)
This is the beach in West Wittering, where I found myself the day after my birthday. It was my friend Damian's birthday too and he comes here every birthday weekend, everyone has good food and cake and fireworks on the beach. November is always about friends and birthdays for me, this year even more so as my best friend Sam moved back to New Zealand.


The Novel (December)
I know we're only halfway through December, but sending my novel to an agent on request is one of the most exciting things ever. It took a week of 12 hour days to get it ready, I could barely see when I'd finished. But it's good. And I still love the story.

I can't wait for 2011. It's going to kick ass.