-Cooking food and nourishing your body
-Meeting new people in London, at the dentist, on the street, bonding over stuff that happens on the tube (eg kids playing playground games, a little girl looking at her fellow passenger’s phone and him explaining what he was doing - having others smile and look away at them)
-Lentil soup and lahmajoun at Ammo’s house, bonding over music, poems, aspirations, history and art with your cousin. Chatting away on the tube about relationships, LGBT culture, our family
-Getting your nails done
-Black coffee, chai latte, cinnamon
-Keeping in touch with people
-Reading books you have accumulated
-Welcoming friends of friends, meeting them for the first time on the street home and recognising them as they were on their way to get ice cream, learning new things, them showing you an art book they found in an exhibition in Edinburgh. Exchanging ideas about art and originality. Them being gentle and soft spoken
-Hugs and music with your friend over food and hygiene practices
-Going house visiting and coming across a dog show; G&T re-usable cups, churros that weren’t the hype we expected them to be, African music in the car
-Being on Oxford Street, five years later, on the exact same day. Instead of friends and playing guitar at the centre, on a date that thankfully ran a few minutes late!
-Looking up from my phone, seeing her eyes and warm smile for the first time. Shaking hands, noticing a gesture she makes when she is nervous.
-The feeling of wanting to shout ‘respectfully, damn’ multiple times throughout the date but keeping cool externally.
-Being over aware of movements of getting closer due to the loud music too, body language, leaning in, eye contact and her looking away, placing legs on sides of chairs.
-Sense of consideration, kindness, intelligence, inside jokes, flirting; traveling long distances and staying out late even if she had work early the next day and you had to go to Manchester in the early morning hours
-When you tell her off for not wearing a helmet when she rides her bike to work but you get owned because you occasionally smoke cigarettes (same risky behaviour).
-Laughing with friends about everything and anything until your cheeks hurt. Remembering uni moments, feeling happy to have kept in touch.
-A friend of yours always needing a charger, getting her phone fully charged and it running out so fast even if she didn’t do anything!
-Your sister finding her wedding dress
-Running through Piccadilly Gardens when the water is on
-G&T before heading back
-Ed Sheeran’s music and feeling flirty
-Feelings of familiarness in being back in the North
-Meeting new people in London, at the dentist, on the street, bonding over stuff that happens on the tube (eg kids playing playground games, a little girl looking at her fellow passenger’s phone and him explaining what he was doing - having others smile and look away at them)
-Lentil soup and lahmajoun at Ammo’s house, bonding over music, poems, aspirations, history and art with your cousin. Chatting away on the tube about relationships, LGBT culture, our family
-Getting your nails done
-Black coffee, chai latte, cinnamon
-Keeping in touch with people
-Reading books you have accumulated
-Welcoming friends of friends, meeting them for the first time on the street home and recognising them as they were on their way to get ice cream, learning new things, them showing you an art book they found in an exhibition in Edinburgh. Exchanging ideas about art and originality. Them being gentle and soft spoken
-Hugs and music with your friend over food and hygiene practices
-Going house visiting and coming across a dog show; G&T re-usable cups, churros that weren’t the hype we expected them to be, African music in the car
-Being on Oxford Street, five years later, on the exact same day. Instead of friends and playing guitar at the centre, on a date that thankfully ran a few minutes late!
-Looking up from my phone, seeing her eyes and warm smile for the first time. Shaking hands, noticing a gesture she makes when she is nervous.
-The feeling of wanting to shout ‘respectfully, damn’ multiple times throughout the date but keeping cool externally.
-Being over aware of movements of getting closer due to the loud music too, body language, leaning in, eye contact and her looking away, placing legs on sides of chairs.
-Sense of consideration, kindness, intelligence, inside jokes, flirting; traveling long distances and staying out late even if she had work early the next day and you had to go to Manchester in the early morning hours
-When you tell her off for not wearing a helmet when she rides her bike to work but you get owned because you occasionally smoke cigarettes (same risky behaviour).
-Laughing with friends about everything and anything until your cheeks hurt. Remembering uni moments, feeling happy to have kept in touch.
-A friend of yours always needing a charger, getting her phone fully charged and it running out so fast even if she didn’t do anything!
-Your sister finding her wedding dress
-Running through Piccadilly Gardens when the water is on
-G&T before heading back
-Ed Sheeran’s music and feeling flirty
-Feelings of familiarness in being back in the North
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