@arianesherine
Writer, journalist, photographer. Pop star as @arianexmusic.bsky.social. Debut electropop album BETTER out soon. 'The hope-filled Kaleidoscope and uplifting Miracle are among the album's many highlights' - Classic Pop. Author of three Hachette titles.
At the last Humanists UK afterparty, for the Darwin Day lecture, I met the new president, broadcaster Janet Ellis, ex-Blue Peter presenter. I managed not to say ‘You’re Sophie Ellis Bextor’s mum!’, which was good because I think she knows. arianesherine.substack.com/p/something-...
Haha!
The sun is out and I feel approximately a billion times happier.
Which is odd, as the sun ages your skin, so you'd think I'd want to hide from it in case I become a wizened husk.
But instead I'm going to expose myself to it (which is allowed, it's not a person) and that sweet, sweet vitamin D.
My boyfriend and I are having our DNA tested so just had to spit in tubes. The last thing I ate was a hot cross bun, and I was dismayed to see a fleck of brown bread floating in my tube.
'I got some bun in it!' I cried.
'Oh dear,' my boyfriend said. 'You're going to be found to be part-raisin!'
Thanks so much hon. Both men, it's true. Though most of my subscriber base is too (they weren't subscribers though it's hard to know as some of them go under weird names).
Hope you're doing well!
I’ve been called the ‘worst example of a woman’ for blogging about my romance. I mean, I know I’m not perfect and my whole life is one long string of TMI, but I’m sure there are more evil female villains who have actually, y’know, killed people and stuff. arianesherine.substack.com/p/its-wonder...
My daughter is top of her class and does a 5k in 25 minutes, but I can't take any credit for her success. I'm not a Tiger Mum, more of a Kitten Mum. Pushing back against my own draconian childhood, I allowed her wall-to-wall screen time and endless treats. arianesherine.substack.com/p/what-its-l...
A dispute about shirt colours
I wish I could give up the other place but there are still a load of very funny posts on there
True, very true!
I’ve personally met far more horrible celebrities than Corden who never seem to get bad press. Hard-faced, snide, cynical, sneering twats who take joy in making fun of others and getting one over on them, yet have somehow escaped the infamy Corden suffers. arianesherine.substack.com/p/what-if-yo...
Boyfriend with beard and moustache
Me: I think you should shave off your beard and just keep your moustache
Boyfriend: I’d look like a fascist dictator!
Free to read, on success and rejection: "Opinions are like arseholes: everyone’s got one, and lots of them stink. Just keep yours clean, that’s the main thing. Not everyone is going to like or get you. Keep your conscience clear and don’t hit back." arianesherine.substack.com/p/just-keep-...
Me: I can’t believe sending a card to Australia costs £3.30 but sending a card to Germany costs £3.40
Boyfriend: Well, Australia were part of empire and Germany were the baddies!
Being South Asian, I am a Hairy Mary. There are two ladies living inside my pants, Mary Hinge and Mary Huff, and I just let them be. Because if a man can’t deal with a 70s-style bush, he’s not for me. open.substack.com/pub/arianesh...
Haha, very similar! Bet you laughed.
Remembering when my daughter was four and went to a birthday party with her dad before coming home to me.
Her: Daddy and me went to the party
Me (correcting her): No, Daddy and *I* went to the party
Her (indignantly): No you DIDN’T!
Me: Are you scared of heights?
Boyfriend: No, I'm scared of landing!
Aww, thank you! ☺️
In every photo with me, he looks like the cat that got the cream. And my needy little soul craves that acceptance and happiness and admiration. I’ve never really had that before: being with a bloke long-term who feels like he’s won at life. arianesherine.substack.com/p/find-someo...
I do understand that the explanation ‘my medical condition makes me shout the N-word at black people’ sounds ridiculous on one level. But as someone whose brain misfires in a similar way, I can assure you it’s absolutely true. arianesherine.substack.com/p/why-people...
A blog about my latest single 'Designed to Run': 'The lyrics portray that mixture of pride, fear and admiration which comes with watching someone who holds your heart inside them grow up... loving someone you can no longer control.' Translation: www-expansionradial-mx.translate.goog/ariane-x-des...
A lady was sitting on the outside seat of a row on our bus, in a way which meant no one could get to the inner seat.
Me: It’s like playing Tetris and leaving an empty space in the middle
Boyfriend: But if that seat gets filled, the whole lower deck of the bus will disappear!
Thanks! I had a Threads comment on a pic of me and Ad saying ‘you got white pipe’ which he inferred was racial abuse. (I didn’t really mind - have had much worse!)
Free to read: "It struck me as a very regressive idea, that Indian girls should only go out with Indian boys. As it happens, I had dated an Indian guy in the past (his name was Sameer and I joked that I’d passed the Sameer test)." open.substack.com/pub/arianesh...
Ariane Sherine and her very hot boyfriend
We went to a Ukrainian restaurant last night for U in the A-Z of Dating. The food was absolutely atrocious but these people have been through enough without me giving them a 1/10 on the restaurant site! We left without dessert and got some Indian gulab jamun on the way home.
Hahaha!
I don’t know why I’m so terrified of puking. I mean, nobody actually likes it (well, someone probably does, it’s a big old world), but it sends me into a state of utter terror. arianesherine.substack.com/p/the-hell-o...
Nope, alas!
I did not, I was sad as it’s my only Lily tooth.
A child’s molar split into three pieces
Having a clear out and was sad to discover that this molar of my daughter’s, kept carefully by the Tooth Fairy, has somehow split into three pieces.
It used to be the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth.