11th November 2014 – Blog created
2014
November 11 – The Birth of the Grimgrad
November 12 – The Curious Incident of the Wheelie Bin in the Night-Time
November 17 – The Hole in My Shoe
December 10 – The Hole in My Shoe: The Next Steps (Pun Intended)
December 18 – A Lesson in Modern Culture? The Jack Wills Christmas Gift Guide 2014
2015
January 14 – My Housemate’s A Mermaid: The Post you Came to this Blog For
January 20 – …My Other Housemate is a Reclusive Journalist
January 29 – Attempts at Sophistication: This Will Go One of Two Ways…
February 8 – Alice and India Take on Cardiff
February 21 – Happy Valake Day!
March 11 – Educating Alice (#EducatingAlice)
March 25 – A Lesson in Modern Culture? High Street Fashion (Spring 2015)
April 23 – Alcohol, Alcohol, Alcohol is Free!
May 12 – “You’ve started a blog. That’s nice, but can you actually earn any money from it?” Mother Bennett
June 26 – “You know, when I was younger I thought I’d be a lot cooler by now” Miss Alice E. Bennett
July 30 – Don’t mention the Euro! (Kos, Greece, July 2015)
August 12 – Life as a Proper Adult: One Year In
August 26 – A Humble Bowl
September 1 – Blenheim Palace: The Unofficial Guide
September 14 – There’s Some Weird Shizz in My Cupboard
September 18 – Life on the Tracks: The Very British Struggles of a 20-Something Commuter
October 4 – 10 Things I Hate About London
October 14 – The Very British Struggles of a 20-Something Commuter – #2
October 25 – Hat Season
October 30 – Gym? What’s a Gym?
November 03 – If I Don’t Post It, No One Else Will
November 11 – Don’t Touch Me Tomatoes
November 19 – Blogging – The First Year (Alias: a year since I bought toilet roll)
November 30 – Money CAN Buy You Happiness
December 15 – Alice’s Guide to a Mediocre Christmas
December 31 – MHAM 2015 – You Guys Read This Stuff?
2016
January 11 – The Very British Struggles of a 20-Something Commuter – #3
January 12 – Sky Pie Dreams
January 17 – The Very British Struggles of a 20-Something Commuter – #4
January 27 – I Read Cosmo For the First Time in Seven Years and it Felt Weird
February 15 – Why “National Singles Day” Needs to Be a Legit Thing
February 24 – Blood Stained Shoes and Ripped Tights: Thursday 18th February
February 29 – Everything and Nothing
March 14 – 22 Starfish Road (Where the Mermaid & Her Housemates Live)
April 13 – “¡Pardon señor, hablo muy poco Español, muy poco!”
April 16 – Quote of the Week (16th April 2016)
April 27 – Bloggers: Keyboard Warriors in Masks
May 16 – Useful Useless Inventions the World Needs
May 30 – MHAM now has a Soundtrack
June 17 – Pammy the Plant Does Slow TV
June 17 – Pammy the Plant and the Weekly Commute
June 18 – Don’t Lose Your Voice
June 22 – Quote of the Week (22/06/16)
July 5 – “If Brexit happens I’ll change my name to Stavros and move to Greece” Corfu, 2016
July 20 – “I’m Out of My Depth”: One Phrase and the Destruction of Modern Society
July 29 – Home is Where the Prosecco is: A Simple Guide to the Cotswolds
August 22 – How to Organise a Summer Ball (and not lose your head in the process)
September 10 – Caves, Cannons and Geriatric Broadband: South Devon 2016
September 16 – Follow ‘grimgrad’ on Instagram for Your Chance to Win*
September 19 – A Monday Evening Pick-Up
September 21 – 100 Things to Do Instead of Watching The Great British Bake Off
September 22 – Brace Yourself…This Blog is About to go Off the Chain
September 25 – A Spanish Sunday in September
September 27 – Oh My God, I’m Going to Die
October 3 – I Don’t Know…Pub?
October 6 –My Two Cents on the New Five Pound Note
October 23 – An Unwise Wisdom Tooth
October 30 – Halloween – What IS it All About?
November 1 – Day 1: National Blog Posting Month (nablopomo) – Introduction
November 2 –Nablopomo Day 2: Is it Time to Give Hershey’s a Break?
November 3 – Nablopomo Day 3: Common Office Jargon – a Translation Guide
November 4 –Nablopomo Day 4: On Going from Blogger to Newspaper Reporter
November 5 – Nablopomo Day 5: Fireworks Night
November 6 – Nablopomo Day 6: Holidays Are Coming
November 7 – Nablopomo Day 7: Hats ON to You!
November 8 –Nablopomo Day 8: The Lesser of Two Evils (US General Election 2016)
November 9 –Nablopomo Day 9: Speechless (US Presidential Elections 2016 – Results)
November 10 –Nablopomo Day 10: The John Lewis Christmas Advert 2016 – Who’s Cleaning up the Animal Poop?
November 11 – Nablopomo Day 11: What Happens when You Introduce Technology into the Cotswolds
November 12 – Nablopomo Day 12: All the Fun of the (Craft) Fair
November 13 – Nablopomo Day 13: The 12:37 Train from Swindon to Bath Spa
November 14 – Nablopomo Day 14: A Girl Named Tuna
November 15 – Nablopomo Day 15: A Short Extract From that Book I’m Writing
November 16 – Nablopomo Day 16: A Messed up Food Diary
November 17 – Nablopomo Day 17: Cirencester Calling
November 18 – Nablopomo Day 18: Inappropriate Music
November 19 – Nablopomo Day 19: Quick, Someone Call Jeremy Corbyn! (A Solution to Traingate)
November 20 –Nablopomo Day 20: Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas
November 21 – Nablopomo Day 21: Who The Heck Drinks Decaf?
November 22 – Nablopomo Day 22: The Common Cold
November 23 – Nablopomo Day 23: Brexit Strikes Again
November 24 – Nablopomo Day 24: Can We Trade Black Friday for Thanksgiving? (An Open Letter to America)
November 25 – Nablopomo Day 25: Update on Living Arrangements
November 26 – Nablopomo Day 26: The Black Friday Effect
November 27 – Nablopomo Day 27: Because Not all European Pop Comes From Eurovision
November 28 – Nablopomo Day 28: A Week in Pictures
November 29 – Nablopomo Day 29: Reactions to My Nablopomo Challenge
November 30 –Nablopomo Day 30: Conclusions
December 1 – Happy December 1st!
December 4 – Happy 100th Birthday, Sorry, Blog Post to Me
December 10 – Girl About Town: Tenpin Bowling
December 17 – Girl About Town: The McArthurGlen Designer Outlet
December 19 – Christmas Shopping and Parties 2016: A ‘How To’ Guide
December 24 – What It Must Feel Like to Fly
December 27 – The Demonization of 2016
December 31 – My Housemate’s a Mermaid: 2016 in Review
2017
January 3 – Gone are the Days
January 5 – Five Minute Review: Empire of The Sun by JG Ballard
January 15 – Five Minute Review: The Garden In The Clouds by Antony Woodward
January 20 – Girl About Town: Swindon Town Centre in Review
January 21 – Five Minute Review: Five Go on a Strategy Away Day (Parody) by Bruno Vincent
January 31 – As Replaceable as the Sky
February 2 – Writer’s Block: Not Quite What I Was Expecting
February 15 – The Most Middle Class, Passive-Aggressive, Valentine’s Day Card You’ll Ever See
February 19 – Five Minute Review: The Food of Love by Anthony Capella
February 21 – When The World Came Together at Oxford Station
February 22 – Girl About Town: 20 at The Kings
March 2 – The Devil in Carb-ate
March 3 – Five Minute Review: Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
March 9 – Girl About Town: Biplob Tandoori (Old Town)
March 9 – An Honest Rejection
March 20 – The ‘First Time Buyer’ Diaries: For You
March 27 – Introduction (The First Time Buyer Diaries)
April 1 – 1. Steamy Nights in With Mr. Rightmove (The First Time Buyer Diaries)
April 9 – An ‘Educational’ Delay at Swindon Train Station
April 17 – 2. Surface Wiring, Scruffy Bathrooms and Slanted Radiators: House Viewing #1
April 19 – 3. Going Cold Turkey on Property
May 3 – So Social!
May 7 – 4. A Poorly Timed Toilet Stop: House Viewing #2
May 8 – Five Minute Review: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
May 10 – Five Reasons Why I Can Never Become Famous
May 12 – Francesca Martinez: “I may be Disabled but at Least I’m not a Pot of Hummus or Donald Trump”
May 16 – Catherine Mayer on Equality, Red Heads and the Manifesto She Wants You to Steal
May 19 – I’m The Classiest Thing to Happen to Swindon Since Billie Piper
May 21 – “I went to get Coffee but Came Back With Cava”: Lanzarote, Canary Islands
May 23 – Little Birds Fly No More
May 23 – Come Sit With Me
May 28 – Five Minute Review: The Classic Cocktail Bible
May 30 – 5. One Man’s Car Crash is Another’s Failed Mortgage Application (The First Time Buyer Diaries)
June – 9 Five Minute Review: What the F*** is Normal?! By Francesca Martinez
June 11 – Is This What Becomes of Love?
June 13 – One Day, One Arm
June 17 – Mess With My Garden, Mess With Me.
June 24 – Why The Word ‘Commit’ Makes Me Yawn
June 29 – Blame it on the Weatherman
July 2 – Quick-ish Review: Canonteign Falls, Dartmoor
July 6 – My Ruddy iPhone 5
July 10 – A Quick-ish Review: Brixham (Devon)
July 14 – A Quick-ish Review: Topsham, Exeter (Devon)
July 16 – Look, All I’m Sayin’…
July 19 – 6. Mortgage Developments
July 26 – Famous Speeches Reimagined with Tea
August 5 – A Very British Complaint Letter to Cadburys Chocolate
August 6 – Girl About Swindon Town: The Greek Olive
August 9 –On Becoming an *Actual* Adult
August 20 – Theatre Review: Vice Versa @ The Royal Shakespeare Company
August 25 – Facebook: The Importance of Unfriending
August 28 – 50 things to do instead of watching The Great British Bake Off
August 31 – Theatre Review: Titus Andronicus @ The Royal Shakespeare Company
September 2 – 7. A Surreal Settlement: Mortgage Conclusions
September 18 – North Korea – a Very British Take
September 20 – A Crumble by Any Other Name
September 21 – MHAM FAQs
October 18 – “They Do Like Their Turtles Don’t They?” Zante (Zakynthos), Greece, 2017
October 31 – The Perils of Retail Therapy
November 5 – What Halloween Means to Me
November 16 – This Could Be the Best Homemade Video Since Charlie Bit My Finger…*
November 22 – Whatever Happened to Duffy?
November 25 – Beauty and the Beans
December 15 – Jolly Lobsters, Glamourous Thermals and Stick Deer: Could This be the Most Hipster Christmas Ever?
December 22 – An Irrelevant Account
December 25 – A Christmas Message
December 26 – Things Are Going To Change Around Here
2018
January 3 – 8. Swapping Solicitors for social media: Impatient Sellers
January 9 – Loop
January 12 – Line!
January 15 – 9. Completion
January 17 – Waterfall vs Agile Project Management Models
January 26 – 10. There’s a Lot of Shizz in my Room
January 28 – Every Book has a Million Stories
February 2 – The Holburne Museum and Art Gallery, Bath Spa (An Unofficial Guide)
February 11 – A Right Royal Renaissance Night Out
February 14 – As I Am
February 18 – 2017 – A Chinese New Year in Review
February 21 – The Warm Up
February 23 – 10 Things you Simply must do in the North Cotswolds
March 10 – How to Be More Like Alice
March 17 – Girl Gotta Read
March 30 – Betrayed by a Toblerone
April 8 – Dear Joe…
May 2 – This Little Piggy Went to Market
May 17 – Wow, I’m in London! (Commuter Sight Seeing)
June 3 – I’m Ruddy Awesome
June 7 – London One Month in: A Brief Moment of Reflection
June 19 – On Being a Victim of Fraud
June 28 – Nobody Puts AB in the Corner
July 5 – Why I Should be on Love Island (and other Discoveries this Week)
July 14 – Sangria, Selfies and Flamencos: Mallorca (Spain) 2018
July 28 – We Are Strange: Corporate Innovation in Action
August 12 – Everyone Must Come! The 250th Summer Exhibition in Review
September 9 – A Selection of September Songs to Keep you Sane
September 20 – More Than Just a Sandwich
September 23 – Chipping Campden meets Camden Market: A Parental Visit to London
October 09 – Day Two and Still Here: Parental Visit to London (Continued)
October 15 – Matrix Bread
October 24 – When She Gives You This Look…
November 6 – The Bits of London that Make the Bigger Picture
November 22 – Solo Adventures
December 5 – Wish You Were Here? Travels in Bruges (*Video*)
December 16 – The Season Alcoholism Became Trendy: The High Street at Christmas 2018
December 29 – New Year’s Eve Parties, Classical Art Style
2019
January 5 – New Year, Less Me
January 15 – Working With The Salvation Army: Three Months on
January 18 – A Pint of Blood Sir, if you may: The Cloak and Dagger Tour of Southwark, London (Review)
January 27 – Toto, I Don’t Think We’re in Swindon Anymore: On Moving to London
February 2 – Why Can’t Men be More Like Snack Bars?
February 11 – “Giant Hamster or Tiny Rhino?” The Time I Interviewed a Senior Finance Executive
March 8 – Alice Bennett and the Mystery of the Three Eggs
March 21 – If it is Inspiration you Seek, it is Classical you Must Find
April 2 – Keanu Reeves is a Better Career Advisor than Britney Spears
April 19 – Because I Can: Solo Travels in Amsterdam
May 9 – Seven Little Books
June 9 –Single Girl Seeks +0 for Family Wedding
June 13 – Testing, Testing
June 23 – Amsterdam Calling
July 7 – While You’re Here
July 28 – The Time I Discovered I was a Dominatrix…At Speed Dating
September 8 – The Morning I Re-evaluated my Relationships with Men
October 13 – Things Escalate Quickly When you Buy From the Chinese
October 30 – Buy Me A Coffee
November 3 – Bennett on Brexit
November 11 – Five Years Ago Today…
November 26 – Lunch Break Scribbles: The Naivety of Youth
December 4 – A Whistle Stop Tour of Throwbacks
December 5 – McDonald’s, You’re Missing A Trick!
December 15 – The Cat’s Guide to Christmas
December 27 – The Shoes!
2020
January 3 – “As Exciting as an East German Portrayal Russian Culture in the 1970s” – MHAM Quiz of 2019
January 13 – The Snack Bar ConMANdrum
January 23 – Banking on Social Investment
February 2 – London Recalling…Straight Lesbians Like Us
February 10 – London Recalling…The Creative’s Curse
February 18 – London Recalling…Solo Sell-Outs
February 27 – London Recalling…Wapping Old Stairs
February 29 – London Recalling – The Boxset
March 9 – Ones to Watch: Writer Alice E. Bennett
March 16 – Mr Blobby’s Take on Mental Health
March 30 – Stop Faffing About and Get on with it!
April 11 – When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Antibacterial Wipes: Lockdown in the Cotswolds
April 23 – Lockdown: 10 Things No One Warned Me About
May 8 – Sometimes it’s Hard: A Poem for Lockdown
May 17 – Covid-19 Shower Thoughts
June 3 – Dad’s Polytunnel
June 6 – Five Minute Review: Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
June 12 – When Three Weeks Becomes Three Months: Family, COVID-19 and the Faith of the Fatigued
June 19 – Anyone Else Remember the Surreal “Sooty and Sweep” Episode with the Explosives?
June 28 – Five Minute Review: Reasons To Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe
July 4 – Writing Course Success!
July 13 – Random Acts of Kindness
July 21 – Career Stories: Bucking the Stereotype
July 27 – Alice Versus Life: The Laminator
August 5 – Podcast Interview: Stratford Calling
August 11 – Your Call is Important to Us
August 19 – The Battle of Cakegate
August 31 – Why I Haven’t Published my Book…Yet
September 8 – It’s All Gone Potato-Shaped
September 14 – Staycations in York
September 21 – New Season, New Identity
September 28 – Three Secrets of Resilient People
October 5 – New Ways to Support
October 12 – Round Two with the Laminator
October 19 – “Protect Swindon 18-30!”: The Unexpected Success of Community Fundraising
November 1 – Be Right Back
November 6 – Look Out Gardeners’ World: Dad’s Polytunnel Revisited
November 6 – Look Out Gardeners’ World: Dad’s Polytunnel Revisited
November 16 – UK Christmas TV Adverts 2020
November 22 – Be Right Back – Quick Update
November 25 – Woman on The Verge of a Birthday Breakdown
December 5 – Born on This Day: Lin Biao, Deputy Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
December 10 – A Very 2020 Take on the 1974 UK General Election
December 15 – 2020 Christmas, The Cobbled Together Edit
December 23 – Have a Merry (Nicolas Cage and/or Lobster Themed) Christmas!
2021
January 5 – Be More Lewis
January 14 – Weirder Things Have Happened
January 25 – Cheers To The Happy Couple
February 2 – London Recalling: The Throwback-set
February 11 – Working From Home, Day 330: The Cat Hates Me
February 21 – Labelling My Condition – Endometriosis
March 8 – Why Alice is *Still* Single…Probably
March 19 – My Sister, On…
March 26 – Donating – A Quick Update
April 5 – Time to Clear Out the Cookies
April 13 – Cotswold Man Versus Pheasant
April 21 – Alice, On…
April 29 – It’s Not You, It’s Me…And My Editing
May 7 – The Pubs Are Open!!
May 13 – Fancy Chinese Footwear
May 20 – British Politics, as Told Through the Medium of Eurovision Songs
May 24 – Remember Eurovision’s Daz Sampson?
June 2 – Very Cotswold Problems, #3001
June 9 – My Face, On Your Tissues
June 15 – Check out this seagull, picking a fight with its own reflection
June 18 – My Take on the England Vs Scotland Game: Welsh Cakes Would Have Helped
June 25 – For Anyone Questioning The Quality of My Work
July 5 – God Dammit, The Jehovah’s Found Me
July 14 – Deleted MHAM Posts From the Cutting Room Floor
July 21 – Alice, The Influencer
July 29 – Supporter Shout Out: Baker Tea House, Cardiff
August 12 – Opinion: Don’t use Covid-19 as an Excuse for “Closure Culture” of the Arts
August 19 – It’s Official: I’m a FULLY Vaxxer!
August 31 – That’s When the Cleaning Fumes Got to Me
September 13 – How I Got Free Stuff From Innocent Drinks
September 20 – Geology, Politics and Guinness: My Week in Belfast
September 27 – You’re Welcome
October 7 – “Another Chance” is SUCH a Throwback Banger
October 12 – Photo of the Week – “Fish Eyes”
October 20 – Alice’s Signature “Three Ingredient” Cooking (Alias “Stodge Dinner”)
October 28 – A Song For Every Day of the Week
November 1 – Scrum Retrospective for Diwali
November 9 – Out of Office
November 15 – A Very Happy Alice
November 23 – Cartoon Strip of the Week – “Writer’s Lift”
November 29 – STILL Wishing You Were Here? Bruges Throwback
December 10 – Letters, Books, Pigeons: Christmas 2021
December 22 – Happy Christmas!
December 29 – Merry New Year!
2022
January 4 – I’ve Been “Cooking” Again
January 10 – New Year, New Job
January 18 – Alice’s Book (Cover) of the Week
January 25 – Best Fashion Purchase of 2022* (*So Far)
January 31 – An Investment Opportunity in Swindon
February 8 – It’s Not Christmas, But I’m Sharing This Anyway
February 14 – The Spirit of Valentine’s Day, in One Profound Sentence
February 21 – **Video** A Belter in Belfast (Solo Travels #5)
March 1 – Alice’s Book (Cover) of the Week #2
March 14 – Five Minute Book Review: “Ways of Living” by Gemma Seltzer
March 21 – Happy Monday, Everyone
March 29 – My Best Bernie Saunders Impression
April 4 – The Cat’s Playing Hide and Seek, Again
April 14 – April 14th
April 25 – “Six-Year-Old’s Lockdown Song to Missed Friends” – Two Years On
May 3 – Alice’s “Chicken Con Carne”
May 11 – Reactions to “Chicken Con Carne”
May 24 – “Cleaning-Up the Microwave” (a Chemical Fume-Induced Song)
May 31 – Writing Retreat in the New Forest *VIDEO*
June 14 – Financial Recommendation for 2022 – Invest in Wood
June 21 – Come Again?
July 5 – Volunteering to Beat Cancer
July 12 – An Earful of ELO and Bitter Tea: Why I Write
July 25 – AEB Book Reviews – Now on Reedsy
August 2 – The Elizabeth Line: An Alternate Review
August 9 – Book Review: “Picturing Freedom: African Americans & Their Cars, A Photographic History”
August 16 – Alice’s Historic Image of the Week
August 23 – Book Review: “NOW IS NEW: Stop Struggling. Start Living.”
August 30 – Desperate Times Call for Christmas Measures
September 6 – Book Review: “Doorways to Transformation” by Karen Kinney
September 13 – Review of “Doorways to Transformation” Named as Spotlight for Reedsy Discovery
September 20 – Something to Lift Your Morning
September 27 – Book Review: “The Ultimate Workbook to Train Your Brain, Body and Spirit” by Steven Clinch
October 4 – Alice Takes on the Pudding Van
October 11 – Book Review: “The Customer Affinity Manifesto: How AI can Help Businesses Connect with Customer Emotions”
October 18 – I Need to do a Collaboration with This Artist!
October 25 – Book Review: “Diagnosis: BURNOUT” by Ariyana S. Nishe
November 1 – Alice Likes Honey
November 8 – Book Review: “Think in Color” by Sofia Santiago
November 15 – The Final Days in My Twenties, Reduced to This
November 22 – Book Review: “Writing the Perfect Christmas TV Movie” by Fred Ray
November 29 – *VIDEO* A New Type of Adventure: Budapest 2022
December 6 – “The Swindon Plaque” says a lot about this English town
December 13 – A Christmas Exchange: The Most Wonderfully Low-Budget Film You’ll See This Year
December 22 – Merry Christmas!
December 28 – “Mum’s Laptop Woe” (a Very British Local News Story)
2023
January 3 – Book Review: “14 Lessons in Happiness” by Gina Ross
January 10 – Not Saying I’m Perfectionist, But…
January 17 – Book Review: “Another World” by Maximillian Matthews
January 24 – Just Another Car Crash / Day in Swindon
January 31 – Book Review: “A Teen’s Essential Guide to Social Anxiety Relief” by Emma Lou Parker
February 7 – Lo-Fi Tuesday – Alice’s Pick of the Week
February 14 – Book Review: “The 10 Habits of Happy Couples” by Tina and Matthew LeBlanc
February 21 – Plant Takeaway: the Eden Project Exhibition that Still Traumatises me
February 28 – Book Review: “Thar She Blows!” by Klam Burley (Illustrated by Francesca Da Sacco)
March 7 – This Video Will Change Your Life
March 14 – Book Review: ‘Living My Best “Single Mum” Life’ by Louise Mathison
March 21 – Reviewing the “Books That Matter” Subscription Box
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