2️⃣9️⃣🤭 I definitely envisioned myself taller, with a richer vocabulary and a penchant for reading legal documents by this ripe old age. Oh well. Grateful for another spin around the sun and more sure of my place in the universe! 🌞 Thank you for all the lovely wishes and continued support, positivity and friendship 💚💚💗
Reminder that Veganuary 2021 starts in just over a month! 😀 As a proud @weareveganuary ambassador I’d like to encourage anyone who is currently humming and hawing about trying veganism or who feels a twinge of curiosity every time the word is mentioned, to go and sign up to Veganuary 2021 at the link in my bio. 🔗 Statistically, people who actually sign up to do Veganuary are far more likely to complete the month-long challenge than those who try to do it without signing up. The peeps over at @weareveganuary have countless incredible resources to inspire and encourage you throughout the month, not to mention a really friendly, helpful community of people on a similar path. It’s totally free and is a worldwide community. Couldn’t hurt to try it 😉🌱🍊🥦🥕🍑🍍🍪🧁🐮🐥🐷 Photo taken at @theretreat.animalsanctuary in Kent! #Veganuary #Veganuary2021
Film Strips by @joshshinner 📸 Had no idea I was such an animated hand-talker 👏🏻🙌🏻👐🏻
Film Strips by @joshshinner 📸 Had no idea I was such an animated hand-talker 👏🏻🙌🏻👐🏻
Film Strips by @joshshinner 📸 Had no idea I was such an animated hand-talker 👏🏻🙌🏻👐🏻
Can someone schedule me a very important business meeting, I have a very important vegan business suit I need to wear somewhere. 💼 This vegan suede by @dauntless_nyc is unbeLIEVable, 😮 and shoes by @taylorandthomas_la courtesy of @immaculatevegan 📸 by @tobyshawphoto for a new vegan fashion photoshoot coming soon 😉 #veganfashion #DauntlessNYC #vegansuede
Can someone schedule me a very important business meeting, I have a very important vegan business suit I need to wear somewhere. 💼 This vegan suede by @dauntless_nyc is unbeLIEVable, 😮 and shoes by @taylorandthomas_la courtesy of @immaculatevegan 📸 by @tobyshawphoto for a new vegan fashion photoshoot coming soon 😉 #veganfashion #DauntlessNYC #vegansuede
Merci @brightzine for having me on your cover this month! 🙏🏻 it was a pleasure to talk all things vegan life, @chickpeepspod and @kinderbeautybox with this fab team. If you need a nice, chunky, information-packed, prettiful vegan magazine this month their digital copy is available to download now, link in my bio 🙂 📝Interview by @lauralollipop and 📸 photos by @charlie_now (This shoot was done last summer for anyone about to lose their chill about being in public, though those people never read the captions anyway…🤔) #BrightZine #vegansofig
Merci @brightzine for having me on your cover this month! 🙏🏻 it was a pleasure to talk all things vegan life, @chickpeepspod and @kinderbeautybox with this fab team. If you need a nice, chunky, information-packed, prettiful vegan magazine this month their digital copy is available to download now, link in my bio 🙂 📝Interview by @lauralollipop and 📸 photos by @charlie_now (This shoot was done last summer for anyone about to lose their chill about being in public, though those people never read the captions anyway…🤔) #BrightZine #vegansofig
Merci @brightzine for having me on your cover this month! 🙏🏻 it was a pleasure to talk all things vegan life, @chickpeepspod and @kinderbeautybox with this fab team. If you need a nice, chunky, information-packed, prettiful vegan magazine this month their digital copy is available to download now, link in my bio 🙂 📝Interview by @lauralollipop and 📸 photos by @charlie_now (This shoot was done last summer for anyone about to lose their chill about being in public, though those people never read the captions anyway…🤔) #BrightZine #vegansofig
Happy 7th Birthday to the actual light of my life!!! 👼🏼 Puff, you are a divine being and no one is worthy but I’ll keep trying my best! I’m grateful for this sweet soul every day but more than ever throughout this entire Year of Uncertainty when having a little friend to get up with and make the day interesting for, when days suddenly got wacky and aimless, was the main thing helping me stay centred! You have no idea how much cats open your heart and make you get your shit together! Here’s to another year of cuddling, excellent conversations and waking up the entire building for breakfast at 5am sharp! 🥱😼 (And no I did not get this fabulously elaborate box of flowers in honour of Puff’s birthday, haha even I am not that silly, it was from my gorgeous friends @scarletthefner and @cooperhefner at my bday! 😸 ) #HappyBirthdayLilPuff #catladyforlife #catsrule
Had my brilliant friend @katietostevinhobbs on the podcast this week! 🐥 @chickpeepspod Link in bio to listen to this episode discussing humanity’s relationship to wild animals, and what respectful boundaries look like. Katie has worked in animal welfare and protection for 20 years (and she is not even old!) and she has so many interesting insights to share for how we can respect and protect the most vulnerable wild animals. Also, I can’t cope with how cute the phrase ‘woolly monkey’ is, which she says multiple times at the start of the podcast 😁🙃 This was a pic of us at @libearty_bear_sanctuary in May, which is the most beautiful bear sanctuary you could imagine. Thinking of the bears lately and how they hibernate for months on end and in the spring/summer they re-emerge looking extra fluffy and mooching around for snacks. Cannot wait to see all my hairy, hungry friends in summer, but for now, I be hibernating🐻☺️❤️ #bears #ChickPeepsPod #veganpodcast #animals
November ♏️ ♐️ – New Substack post up on having a quiet season 🤫 – I narrated 2 audiobooks!! A dream!! You just get locked into a cosy booth for a week and have to read a story aloud! Check my story for a peek! 📖 🎙️ – Lots of Autumnal walks with Malo 🐕 – Was walking around Bounds Green with my eyes fixed on the ground and the ground shouted at me! What was it trying to say?! I still don’t know… 🗿 – Pablo sleeping in the duvet wedge above my recording booth. It took far too long for me to figure out that the phantom purring was not in my head. – I love this owl poem. From the book ‘The Psychology of Money’. 🦉 – just a robin out the kitchen window ❤️ – Pam Gregory’s books continue to blow my mind 🌊 also, this bit about us all being part of an ocean is kind of the concept of ‘Pluribus’, no? Kinda makes me wanna join the us people. Am I not watching this show correctly? 🤔 – Swanning around in my new @unrealfur jacket 😍 – A moment of harmony between 🐱 & 🐶 – Den with a slight James Joyce thing going on?! J’adore
November ♏️ ♐️ – New Substack post up on having a quiet season 🤫 – I narrated 2 audiobooks!! A dream!! You just get locked into a cosy booth for a week and have to read a story aloud! Check my story for a peek! 📖 🎙️ – Lots of Autumnal walks with Malo 🐕 – Was walking around Bounds Green with my eyes fixed on the ground and the ground shouted at me! What was it trying to say?! I still don’t know… 🗿 – Pablo sleeping in the duvet wedge above my recording booth. It took far too long for me to figure out that the phantom purring was not in my head. – I love this owl poem. From the book ‘The Psychology of Money’. 🦉 – just a robin out the kitchen window ❤️ – Pam Gregory’s books continue to blow my mind 🌊 also, this bit about us all being part of an ocean is kind of the concept of ‘Pluribus’, no? Kinda makes me wanna join the us people. Am I not watching this show correctly? 🤔 – Swanning around in my new @unrealfur jacket 😍 – A moment of harmony between 🐱 & 🐶 – Den with a slight James Joyce thing going on?! J’adore
November ♏️ ♐️ – New Substack post up on having a quiet season 🤫 – I narrated 2 audiobooks!! A dream!! You just get locked into a cosy booth for a week and have to read a story aloud! Check my story for a peek! 📖 🎙️ – Lots of Autumnal walks with Malo 🐕 – Was walking around Bounds Green with my eyes fixed on the ground and the ground shouted at me! What was it trying to say?! I still don’t know… 🗿 – Pablo sleeping in the duvet wedge above my recording booth. It took far too long for me to figure out that the phantom purring was not in my head. – I love this owl poem. From the book ‘The Psychology of Money’. 🦉 – just a robin out the kitchen window ❤️ – Pam Gregory’s books continue to blow my mind 🌊 also, this bit about us all being part of an ocean is kind of the concept of ‘Pluribus’, no? Kinda makes me wanna join the us people. Am I not watching this show correctly? 🤔 – Swanning around in my new @unrealfur jacket 😍 – A moment of harmony between 🐱 & 🐶 – Den with a slight James Joyce thing going on?! J’adore
November ♏️ ♐️ – New Substack post up on having a quiet season 🤫 – I narrated 2 audiobooks!! A dream!! You just get locked into a cosy booth for a week and have to read a story aloud! Check my story for a peek! 📖 🎙️ – Lots of Autumnal walks with Malo 🐕 – Was walking around Bounds Green with my eyes fixed on the ground and the ground shouted at me! What was it trying to say?! I still don’t know… 🗿 – Pablo sleeping in the duvet wedge above my recording booth. It took far too long for me to figure out that the phantom purring was not in my head. – I love this owl poem. From the book ‘The Psychology of Money’. 🦉 – just a robin out the kitchen window ❤️ – Pam Gregory’s books continue to blow my mind 🌊 also, this bit about us all being part of an ocean is kind of the concept of ‘Pluribus’, no? Kinda makes me wanna join the us people. Am I not watching this show correctly? 🤔 – Swanning around in my new @unrealfur jacket 😍 – A moment of harmony between 🐱 & 🐶 – Den with a slight James Joyce thing going on?! J’adore
My ol’ pal Puff just making sure I don’t eat all the cookies by myself 😼 she is weirdly fond of cookie batter, and insists on hoovering up the crumbs. Chocolate chip cookie recipe from @deliciouslyella they are insanely delicious, I’ve made 2 batches now! Yummmmm #LilPuff #vegancookies #vegantreats
My ol’ pal Puff just making sure I don’t eat all the cookies by myself 😼 she is weirdly fond of cookie batter, and insists on hoovering up the crumbs. Chocolate chip cookie recipe from @deliciouslyella they are insanely delicious, I’ve made 2 batches now! Yummmmm #LilPuff #vegancookies #vegantreats
Happy Valentine’s Day, you Beauts! / subtle dignified plea for my soulmate to hurry tf up, I can’t keep eating these cakes by myself / I made this for @chickpeepspod feed and Momo said it doesn’t match the aesthetic so, voila! 😅(recipe is from the @mscupcakeuk recipe book, which is amazing!!) #HappyValentinesDay #vegan #vegancake
Happy Valentine’s Day, you Beauts! / subtle dignified plea for my soulmate to hurry tf up, I can’t keep eating these cakes by myself / I made this for @chickpeepspod feed and Momo said it doesn’t match the aesthetic so, voila! 😅(recipe is from the @mscupcakeuk recipe book, which is amazing!!) #HappyValentinesDay #vegan #vegancake
Happy Valentine’s Day, you Beauts! / subtle dignified plea for my soulmate to hurry tf up, I can’t keep eating these cakes by myself / I made this for @chickpeepspod feed and Momo said it doesn’t match the aesthetic so, voila! 😅(recipe is from the @mscupcakeuk recipe book, which is amazing!!) #HappyValentinesDay #vegan #vegancake
Literature and butterflies 🦋
Happy Father’s Day to all the amazing dads out there, especially my dad! 💚🤍🧡 He isn’t really bothered about instagram but I miss my family so much and wanted a little picture of Dad on my feed. We were talking in ChickPeeps bookclub yesterday about how it’s actually quite a challenging time to be a man, particularly a decent man, as men are getting blamed for all the collective wrongdoings of mankind, and as the pressure for the collapse of the patriarchy mounts. That feels like quite a lot to bear. So I just wanted to say how much I depend on the kind, strong, compassionate and wise men in my life to support, embolden me and at times, to lead the way through dark times, and there’s none I depend on for that more than my own dad. I could not hack this life journey without kind men and brilliant dads ✨
Presenting the cast of the all-female production of Hamlet that was, very sadly, “not to be” 💔 It has been a strange week rehearsing a show that nobody could say would definitely go on. But there was also something refreshingly different about just taking work one day at a time because nothing was taken for granted. I don’t think I’ve ever lived in such a state of presence, well, ever. No planning, no expectations, no idea what’s next and no anxiety. It was so nice to be with a group of women fully listening and developing ideas purely for the sake of self expression and because it was fun to do. I kept thinking of those lads in the titanic movie who played their violins til the bitter end and how there’s no better way to spend the present moment than connecting and exchanging ideas with open-hearted people. I hope this show happens at some point in the future 🙏🏻 . I got back home to my apartment tonight and felt deeply sad. It’s weird to go home and close your door with absolutely no knowledge of when the world will call you back out again. There’s usually always something in mind – whether it’s in an hour or a month, a job, a gym appointment, a friend’s birthday – to get back out there for. I don’t think I’ve ever gone home to have absolutely nothing on the calendar for…months. But again, I return to, this is how all the spiritual teachers tell us to live: in the present moment which is the only moment promised. There’s plenty to do in the present and I’m excited to embrace that. One more thought that keeps occurring to me and that I’m constantly amazed by throughout this weird new reality: if there was ever proof needed that we are literally all connected and equal, this is it. The fact that we can infect someone with a virus several continents away is surely testament to the fact that we can also affect people around the world with kindness. If we can touch strangers with diseases then so too do our words, our actions and our everyday choices bear significance and have repercussions we can’t even imagine on people we’ve never met. That is WILD and cool and I shall fix my intent on spreading light and laughs in all my actions. Love y’all, stay safe. 😘💗
