Honest to blog?

With free time comes a greater variety of time wasters, my recent favourites being my every growing addiction to all things blog. It started off fairly innocently after trawling through interior design blogs to find inspiration for my imaginary house that has yet to exist. But then something changed. Suddenly I found myself with a 100 picture thick folder on my computer inconspiciously hidden under the alias 'things'. I nervously clicked on the folder to see what I had nonchalontaly saved, only to find an array of quaintly worn summer garden huts surrounded by bushes of hibiscus flowers, window seats hidden amongst achingly satisfying mounds of books whose covers themselves told a story, and duck egg blue Aga's housing an array of copper saucepans. But it didn't stop there. No, next came the treehouse searches, the blanket fort competitions, and the cabin porn, all displaying heart-filled, cluttered collections of materials; natural and personal...fairy lights, record players, handmade quilts. It didn't take long before I had an image of myself pottering around a kitchen wearing a 50s housewife style apron, making homemade lemonade served in jam jars to the smiling guests in my blossoming garden. So obviously I had to jump straight onto Nigella's website which is the ultimate A grade crack for ridiculous homely fantasies, and bookmarked about 50 recipes which I will never make for my flock of adoring guests. So this obsession went on for a while, hours spent clicking link after link of pretty little houses and food I can't afford, until I reached my ultimate new obsession...Alie & Georgia. Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark are immaculately presented best friends from L.A. who gained fame through their inventive cocktail making skills in the viral video The McNuggetini and have since gone on to create a web series for Cooking Channel Tv, amongst various other ventures. Now Alie & Georgia are everything I love in people...namely that they're funny, ballsy and slightly batshit crazy...but best of all they do this whilst getting drunk and doing awesome stuff.

A Girl's Guide to Drinking Alone.

Drinking alone has a bad rep. Why that is, I really don't know. It's like being at an awesome party with all your favourite songs and no drunk sweaty guys trying to touch your bum, but for some reason the world doesn't look to kindly upon lone-drinkers, and admitting to be one is an open invitation for concerned eyes and patronising tones. Ok I'm not saying it's the best habit to get into, but sometimes you just want to crawl into your sweats and wail along to Neutral Milk Hotel without awkward stares and people trying to get you sectioned.

Now the first thing you want to do is get the perfect set up. If your cup of Long Island Ice tea is curling up on the sofa in front of the tv, make sure you've got a stack of movies and a blanket at the ready for pass-out time. For me, I'm happy anywhere as long as I've got itunes and a decent supply of tobacco. Next, pick out your gladrags. Some favour pjs, some favour dresses, some favour absolutely nothing at all. Drinking alone is the perfect excuse to wear what you normally wouldn't. That 80s style prom dress you were convinced would one day be back in fashion? Newsflash, no it won't, but who the fuck cares? This is your party girl, you rock the shit outta that dress. You wanna wear fake eyelashes and throw some shapes to Beyonce? Go for it.

Now to pick your poison. Be it an ice cold beer of vodka on the rocks...no one's going to judge you for it, that's the beauty of it all! Finally, we have the cherry in the cocktail; the music. Where's the fun in a one woman party without some tunes? Here are a few of my must-have drinking alone (or as I like to call it, bonding with gin) songs...

Ike and Tina-Jamie T

Alcohol-Barenaked Ladies

Katy On A Mission-Katy B

Sleepyhead-Passion Pit

Otis-Kanye West & Jay Z

What To Say-Born Ruffians

Sail-Awolnation

So ladies, have a blast, sing loudly, have a party by yourself, but remember...be awesome about it, no one likes a hot mess.