Gillian Orr

Mar 23, 2024 | vogue.co.uk | Gillian Orr

On a bright Friday lunchtime in Shoreditch’s Bistro Freddie, Hannah Crosbie, a 26-year-old wine writer and broadcaster, is flicking through the restaurant’s extensive wine list with one brief: to impress me. To accompany our snail flatbread, radicchio salad and seafood croquettes, she lands on a bottle of Aligoté, “the bastard white grape of Burgundy”, she explains, taking a sip, as most white wines from the region are Chardonnay.

Mar 18, 2024 | keepitupfatty.substack.com | Isabel Mohan |Gillian Orr

What are people really thinking when they tell you “you’re so confident!”? You’re dressed like a slagYou’re dressed like a clownSeriously, please stop talking You seem to like yourself an awful lot more than you should when you look like thatUgh, go away, only people thinner than you deserve to be seen in public  You’re deluded about EVERYTHINGYou probably just had a really expensive education Are you drunk? Have you taken cocaine? Wait, are you a TORY?

Feb 9, 2024 | andreapetkovic.substack.com | Gillian Orr |Andrea Petkovic

It’s been exactly twelve days since the first Grand Slam tournament of the year ended. Twelve long days. But who’s counting? I had just nestled into my seat, mentally and emotionally prepared for a ten-hour flight, the airplane had just begun its nerve-wrecking droning sound when a familiar feeling hit me. One I thought I had left behind with my retirement from professional tennis. It was a whiff of sadness, just a tinge, a light shade at the periphery of my vision.

Feb 2, 2024 | beccafreeman.substack.com | Becca Freeman |Hillary Kerr |Gillian Orr |Ashely Elston

Hello,I’m trying something new and sharing my monthly reading recommendations via Substack instead of Instagram where I’ve always felt a little limited (I run out of space in the caption and have to carry over into the comments, there are no links, no formatting). So with that, here’s everything I read and am recommending from Jan. FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver BurkemanWho is this for? Anyone who’s ever bragged about having a to-do list system (guilty!).

Jan 22, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Gillian Orr

First PersonTowards the end of last year, I started to pack up some of my son’s things to give to charity. I’d been holding onto clothes that he hadn’t worn since 2022, and stuff he hadn’t used for months – a baby bouncer, a small cot – because I wasn’t sure if we would need them again. Now I know that we won’t. After some considered talks, my husband and I have decided to join a growing number of families by deciding that we are only going to have one child.