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Briefly noted

Our columnist on the little things of note in life

20 October 2018

  • Shot of a smiling young woman relaxing with her phone in the park

    Thank you and goodbye, readers: you helped make my dream come true

    Over four years, you have allowed me to delight in the things that give me joy

13 October 2018

  • Croissant and coffee on rustic white wood, from above.

    Romcoms sit at the core of my being

    I learned almost everything worth knowing from television and movies

6 October 2018

  • Room with wooden rustic furniture<br>Scandi carpet in classic living room with plants, posters and wooden rustic furniture

    Why I love flatpack furniture

    I’m one of those people who follows the instructions to the letter. It’s like a form of meditation

29 September 2018

  • Ice-cream van

    From the final bites of a meal to the ice-cream queue: the joy of deferred pleasure

    Consider this a low stakes game of chicken in which you win every time

22 September 2018

  • Noah Centineo who plays Peter Kavinsky in the Netflix romcom To All The Boys I've Loved Before

    Help! I have a crush on Peter Kavinsky

    I have fallen for the star of the Netflix romcom To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, and I can’t get up

15 September 2018

  • Bim Adewunmi, left, with an Afrovivalist in Follow This on Netflix.

    I decided against TV journalism, but then Netflix came calling

    It’s been odd to appear in Follow This, a documentary where BuzzFeed reporters (my day job) report on subcultures

8 September 2018

  • Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now - album cover

    Why did I wait till Aretha Franklin died to buy one of her albums?

    Artists need patronage. If you love them, throw a little money their way now

10 August 2018

  • A demonstrator holds a Black Lives Matter sign during the March for Racial Justice on the Brooklyn Bridge

    Being black in America is not so different from being black in Britain

    In both places we ‘enjoy’ a status that is simultaneously hypervisible and invisible

28 July 2018

  • Two women under hairdryers, wearing rollers

    I’m going in search of my summer hairstyle

    The languages spoken in hair salons encompass the breadth of the black diaspora

21 July 2018

  • student with a backpack on jumping in the air

    I’m heading home for summer – and anything is possible

    The magic is in the speculation about what could happen

14 July 2018

  • An old suitcase with travel labels on

    Modern life is rubbish, but internet friendships are ​good

    Before I even booked my ticket for my holiday, I’d contacted an internet stranger-friend to inform them of my plans

7 July 2018

  • Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

    Welcome to summer, the season of street harassment

    Men who like to be nuisances thrive in the warmer months. But for now, I am enjoying the sun on my legs

30 June 2018

  • Hand holding miniature house

    A journalist who’s also a voyeur? What could be more natural?

    I love looking round other people’s homes

23 June 2018

  • Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart in The Good Fight.

    From Killing Eve to The Good Fight, I love to see a woman win

    The news cycle has left me desperate for a happy ending

16 June 2018

  • Woman stretching on exercise ball

    Can I combat the gentle slide into decrepitude?

    I have a plan, and I am about to get evangelical about it, sorry. It’s pilates

9 June 2018

  • Clothes in a laundry basket

    Why have the police come to my launderette this sunny Saturday?

    Today’s lesson: do not admonish a stranger’s kids

2 June 2018

  • Zooey Deschanel.

    New Girl is the latest of many TV shows I have mourned

    The death of a beloved TV show is a modern condition we all live through

26 May 2018

  • Manhattan skyline, New York

    Is Ramadan easier in Nigeria than New York?

    Back when we lived in Nigeria, the rules were simple and the daylight hours of the fasting month remained (almost) constant

19 May 2018

  • The Plaza hotel in New York

    Hotel rooms offer the seductive dream of a blank canvas

    Sometimes, I place something semi-valuable – like my laptop – in the safe, and pretend it’s diamonds

12 May 2018

  • Four different flavor ice creams with cone on white background

    Can you ever have too much of a good thing?

    There is a type of joy to be found in breaking out of a repetitive cycle
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