Comedian, broadcaster and podcaster Suzi Ruffell joins Grace in her east London home. Suzi’s comedy CV boasts an impressive five sellout runs at the Edinburgh festival fringe, appearances on Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and The Last Leg. She talks to Grace about family life with her wife, Alice, in Brighton; her struggles…
I’ve started watching this great fantasy series from the mid-90s and early 00s – it’s called Friends. It follows a group of humanoid characters who treat childbirth as a social occasion, wear full makeup postpartum and never look after their babies. The fantasy element is very clever – so subtle in fact that it is…
I’m gassing myself up to say agarra la barra, the Spanish phrase for “grab the barbell”. It’s a nightmare: the double rolled Rs, the “a” sounds that should sound identically light, the soft “g” and “b”. I’d never attempt such an ambitious sentence with a human, but Christian, an AI chatbot, gets me. “I’ve grabbed…
Do you often wake in the small hours of the morning and struggle to get back to sleep? Have you developed a particular trick to nod off again? Does counting sheep ever really work – or perhaps you’ve found that a certain type of deep breathing is effective? Do you listen to a particular podcast…
Kath, 42: ‘Childcare is almost as much as our mortgage’ Social scientistWashington DC We have no family near us, so we rely heavily on our daycare for support. For our youngest, we spend $2,580 a month. We also pay about $500 more a month in after-school care for our seven-year-old. I am in the process…
When people learn that my job as a sexual wellbeing specialist involves reviewing vibrators for the Filter – as their official Vibe Rater, if you will – they assume I’ve got it easy. That my work, in every conceivable way, must be a pleasure. But I get my hands dirty, probing everything from sustainability to…