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[tegan @teganblake_]

I fear my recent work may tilt this account into the political category… Fear not, my followers - I’ll be back to my insightful observations concerning vending machines and the likes soon!

[tegan @teganblake_]

First observation of recent months: it seems the poshest postcodes have the worst bins. Who wants to pay the staggeringly expensive rent to live in supposedly pristine streets, when twice a week you are subject to rats and seagulls ravaging through bin bags at your front door.

[tegan @teganblake_]

Wow, X. It’s been so long since I’ve posted we’ve got a new PM, although, that’s hardly a milestone these days! Anyway, I could say I’ve been putting the world to rights, but really my phone broke and I was locked out of my account. Good news? I’m back, and I have a lot to say!

[tegan @teganblake_]

How am I meant to give up anything that brings me joy this Lent when, on the very first weekend, I’m staying with parents I want to impress? No nicotine - I’ll be unbearable. No puddings - they’ll assume I’m on some strange diet. No swearing - there go all my best jokes…

[tegan @teganblake_]

No originality today. Just want to once again say that Christmas Lights by Coldplay is an incredibly good song. Happy Christmas all.

[tegan @teganblake_]

@nelithb You’re not allowed

[tegan @teganblake_]

Christmas Lights by Coldplay is the only Christmas song that works year-round - and when December hits, it somehow sounds even more perfect.

[tegan @teganblake_]

I love black cabs. Are they economical? No. Is there the bane of having to describe exactly where you live instead of dropping a pin? Absolutely. Did I pretend I was getting the bus tonight, only for a black cab to glide past the stop like fate itself? Yes. It was meant to be.

[tegan @teganblake_]

In danger of getting too political here, but the new sugar tax on my sickly sweet iced coffee cans is about to seriously disrupt my morning routine. Really, Rachel Reeves?

[tegan @teganblake_]

Which is more unprofessional: calling in sick on a Monday, or showing up looking like you were lightly trampled by a bus and a voice thats hanging on by a thread? I went with option two today, and honestly… my reputation will need a few weeks to recover

[tegan @teganblake_]

There’s a junction between London and Suffolk called - well, at least my family calls it - ‘Deer Corner,’ thanks to the endless fields of deer. Today, no grazing deer in sight… just three very squished ones. Deer corner in November: disappointing turnout.

[tegan @teganblake_]

Last year on my birthday I woke up to Trump winning the election.
This year I woke up to a boy I went to school with posting photos on Instagram with his trousers down. I honestly don’t know which is worse.

[tegan @teganblake_]

My mother called me woke for drinking decaf Earl Grey before bed. If wanting a good night’s sleep is activism now, sign me up.

[tegan @teganblake_]

Joined Hinge out of curiosity. Two days in and I now irrationally hate:
1.People who call Nottingham ‘Notts’
2.People who call Yorkshire puddings ‘yorkies’
3.Anyone posing next to the Eiffel Tower

[tegan @teganblake_]

Apparently my new job requires me to understand maps, dimensions, and aesthetic sensibility. I fear I must acquire an architect as a suitor immediately, for I never took geography and can scarcely draw a straight line.

[tegan @teganblake_]

@nelithb @ChrisWillx This is fantastic marketing!

[tegan @teganblake_]

Can something still be called an epidemic if it’s a good thing? Cycling is undeniably great for you, but the sheer number of those two-wheeled contraptions flooding London’s streets has reached levels that can only be described as contagious enthusiasm on wheels.

[tegan @teganblake_]

Apple Pay has been rejecting me at the tube gates these past two days. Annoting at first, but I’ve found a strange charm in using the old ticket machines again. Today I even fed in coins. Between the clink, the whirr and the ticket sliding out I found a little rush of nostalgia.

[tegan @teganblake_]

Never go to the hairdresser hungover. And if you do, don’t say ‘oh whatever you think is best’. High chance you’ll walk out with a bob and the look of someone who’s just lost a bet.

[tegan @teganblake_]

Nothing tests my patience like an airport shuttle making we watch the opposite doors open and close before mine. Practical, maybe. Infuriating? Absolutely.