Rachel trained as a counsellor before deciding she was better at listening to strangers in print than in person. She retrained as a journalist in her early thirties and found her niche quickly — long-form pieces about how people actually live, what they struggle with and what quietly sustains them. She has written for women's interest, wellbeing and general lifestyle titles and has a gift for making complex emotional territory feel approachable without ever making it feel light. She lives in Cardiff with her teenage daughter and a cat that ignores them both equally.
Small talk is easy to underestimate because, by definition, very little appears to happen. A remark about the weather, a few words with...
ByRachel DrummondJuly 29, 2026Modern life produces no shortage of advice about slowing down. The irony is that rest can quickly become another thing to optimise: a...
ByRachel DrummondJuly 24, 2026Renting is not a single experience. For some people it offers flexibility; for others it means repeated moves, rising costs and little control...
ByRachel DrummondJuly 21, 2026Work-life balance is often presented as a personal skill: organise the diary better, mute notifications, protect the evening. Those habits can help, but...
ByRachel DrummondJuly 18, 2026Loneliness is often described as an epidemic, a phrase that can make the problem sound both universal and rapidly worsening. Current British data...
ByRachel DrummondJuly 9, 2026A new cultural venue opens in Durham on 22 August, bringing contemporary art, local history and a restored museum building back into public...
August 22, 2026Amid the noise of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a small jewellery exhibition in Stockbridge is asking visitors to look at landscape in a...
August 9, 2026Small talk is easy to underestimate because, by definition, very little appears to happen. A remark about the weather, a few words with...
July 29, 2026Community gardens are easy to romanticise. A few raised beds, a shed and a line of beans can quickly become shorthand for neighbourliness,...
July 28, 2026Style after 40 does not need a rescue plan. It also does not arrive with a universal set of rules about hemlines, colour,...
July 27, 2026Home baking does not need to be described as a revival, a form of therapy or an antidote to modern life to be...
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