THE QUACK

 'That’s right, I thought in my haze, I have a boyfriend now.'
On this week's Quack, I celebrated my 34th birthday by taking my new boyfriend to his very first spa. Unfortunately, it was not the relaxing experience I had promised...
 
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This month has been a bit chaotic, so I will be returning on September 17th with more facepalm stories. Thank you guys! x

It seemed barbaric, and yet, she was so casual about it, as if she were demonstrating how to season a chicken.
 
With the help of Reddit reviews, I'm choosing my next birth control method. This episode also includes some seriously great ideas for male contraceptives. 
 
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"It would be called Can of Worms. Sunday Times Bestseller list, here I come."
 
In this first episode of the series, I am going back to the very beginning when I attempted my first novel. 
 
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I made the mistake of asking Dad, “But do billboards actually work?” I may as well have asked if Tottenham Hotspur was a synchronised swimming team.
 
This week is about growing up in an 80s advertising family and working out what my dad did for work. 
 
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"The turnout was 50 girls and 10 terrified boys..."
 
This week is a flashback to my 2010 school prom...which wasn't anything like the ones in the movies. 
 
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"I then remembered it wasn't football, so these grown-ups could be trusted not to punch each other in the face..." 
 
I went to the rugby final on Saturday, which made me reflect on my football upbringing.
 
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“STOP! I LEFT THE CHEESE!” We twisted around and punted back to the boathouse to collect the cheese. 🧀
 
It's Hermione's birthday, and this year we all went punting in Oxford. I made the mistake of getting in the wrong boat....
 
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"I was biting into my vegetable kebab when I received a message from the Hinge bloke. I read the top line and rolled my eyes..."
 
It's been over a year since I've been on Hinge, but I'm now back on the dating horse. This is the story of my first online dating experience of 2025. 
 
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"I did wonder, as I was walking around the Eiffel Tower in a red dress, whether, perhaps, I had watched too many movies..."
 
This week on The Quack, I reflect on the face-palm moments from my recent girls' trip to France. Includes a desperate scene of me trying to create a romantic moment by the Eiffel Tower, a game of charades with the Airbnb host, and an AI song about tariffs.
 
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