friends: charlotte - Last Year's Girl

culture consumption: july 2019;

Well, we did it. We married her off. And yes, I appreciate that this is a photo of Eesmee-of-honour me rather than the bride in her dress – but the me of 2019, the me who has yet to reactivate her Facebook account, is now acutely aware that some things just aren’t mine to share. […]

#fybs5: it’s okay to walk away (especially if you’re going home to watch house);

Charlotte Dougall is a digital marketer, blogger and airport documentary enthusiast usually found in Glasgow, but currently driving everyone back home wild with jealousy with her Instagram stories on holiday in Mexico. Charlotte started blogging when she was 14 years old, and her recently rebranded lifestyle blog By Charlotte Ann will be celebrating its 9th […]

in the spirit with edinburgh’s christmas;

I was always strictly a not-until-1st-December kind of girl. But this year, something seems to have come over me. Something… almost magical. I mean, sure, I kept to a 1st December deadline before posting anything particularly festive on the blog. You have no way of knowing I’ve been eating mince pies since mid-November; or that […]

culture consumption: august 2018;

So the last of these posts was in… April? Oops. These posts are among my absolute favourites to write, because short-form raves about the books, music and shows I’ve been loving is kinda my thing, but they also take forever to write… and then there was that two months I spent doing nothing but playing […]

eyes down arms up: bongo’s bingo in glasgow;

It’s an easy reach to describe bingo/rave/dance party Bongo’s Bingo as not your granny’s bingo… but it’s also one that annoys me. You see, for a good chunk of my early 20s, I went to the bingo. Growing up in a small town outside of Glasgow – and not being much of a fan of […]

culture consumption: march 2018;

Right, where was I before I so rudely interrupted myself: Movies. I’m kind of famous for having huge gaps in my knowledge of cinema. I preferred books, and my own company, to films growing up, so there are loads of the cultural touchstones of my youth that I haven’t yet seen – and as for […]

culture consumption: january 2018;

I love a good retro revivalist hot take. You know: modern life is rubbish; social media causes cancer; life was so much better when we all knew our neighbours because none of us had indoor toilets – that sort of thing? Because here’s something I’ve realised: I wouldn’t read half as many books if it […]