This column appeared in The Sunday Times on 27th October 2019 I was boarding a plane, when a very lovely young flight attendant offered to help me with my luggage because he could see I was pregnant. I was momentarily conflicted. Yes, I definitely wanted him to help me with my luggage, I’d been humping…
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She Said He Said – Anniversaries
SHE SAID, HE SAID – ANNIVERSARIES This column first appeared in the Sunday Times on 14 July 2019. He Said portion written by the wonderfully funny Jason Mykl Snyman. SHE SAID – By Paige Nick We’ve probably over-complicated things. There’s the anniversary of your first date. Oh wait, what about the first time you both…
Getting to know you
This column first appeared in Sunday Times Lifestyle on 2 June 2019: I recently had an interesting debate with this guy I once dated. Let’s call him ‘X’. We got together about a billion years ago for half a second, until he ghosted me. He then reappeared all apologetic six or seven years later and…
Wanted dead or alive. Preferably alive.
This column first appeared in Wanted Magazine on 2nd November 2018 WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE. PREFERABLY ALIVE. – by Paige Nick Am I high end? I don’t lick the knife, I flew business class that one time, and I know how to use that weird cutlery for snails. But I have also been known to…
Sunday Times Review – Theo & Flora
This review first appeared here in the Sunday Times Lifestyle on 4th November 2018: REVIEW – By Paige Nick THEO & FLORA – MARK WINKLER (Penguin SA, 2018) **** The story behind this novel is almost as nuanced as the one in it. After Mark Winkler’s first novel (An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Absolutely Everything (Penguin,…
It’s a set up
This column first appeared in The Sunday Times on 21 October 2018: IT’S A SET-UP – Paige Nick I’ve made a terrible mistake. I set up two good friends. I’ve since played the whole thing out in my head a million different ways, and I can’t find a single way this ends well. She is…
Disaster dates
This column first appeared here in The Sunday Times Lifestyle on 26th August 2018. SUNDAY TIMES FUNNY, NOT FUNNY – Paige Nick I don’t know why I find dating disasters so funny. I’m either a through and through psychopath, or there’s nothing wrong with me and it’s simple self-preservation. Like that thing where if you…
Travel fomo: it’s a thing, people. And I have it bad
This column first appeared in The Sunday Times on 5 August 2018. ACCIDENTAL TOURIST – SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL FOMO By Paige Nick My father is an adventurer. A month ago, he spent two nights in a barely-anything by barely-anything-meter-squared hide, to watch bears mating in the wild. He was somewhere near Khumo, Finland, and otherwise…
A book you never finish reading
This column first ran in the Sunday Times on Sunday 22nd July 2018 A BOOK YOU NEVER FINISH READING LIGHT THE DARK; Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process, Edited by Joe Fassler (Penguin Books, 2017) 5 stars – hell, 15 stars. I bought this book by accident. I was on a date in…
Lab-grown Date Night
This column first appeared here, in The Sunday Times on 1 July 2018: TINDER BECOMES UNHINGED By Paige Nick I once dated a guy who only had one real-life friend in the whole wide world. That should have been the first sign that something wasn’t quite right with him. There were other glow-in-the-dark red flags…