Life Litter is a collection of daily detritus, comprising Awkward Encounters, recounted, and The Notebooks, journals of life and travel across several continents.

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Who writes Litter?

I do. I’m Jill. 👋 Oxford-based wordspooler; feminist; millenial. Awkward human; erstwhile peripatet. Co-habiting and family-blending.

I live in my head. Welcome to my home.

If you enjoy my writing, this is the best place to find it.

Here are some of my most-read pieces on Litter:

• Four times I was awkward this week - The enigma of Other People, plus how not to respond to a compliment — and a reminder to always keep your phone charged at the Playhouse.

• Love Letter - Substacks are the new sonnets, and we are the best age gap. For Joel.

• People who get in our way - Tales of a really fancy dinner, and some pebbles in the river.

• Steinbeck, ant fungus and the zombie apocalypse - On why we play video games and read books.

• Modern parenting - Unexpected questions about the Big Question.

Here are some of The Notebooks:

And here’s me. You can also find me on the ‘gram @renovate70s.

What is Litter?

Litter tests the theory that no person is uninteresting.

I offer up the detritus of my inner life.

In addition to Awkward Encounters and The Notebooks, Litter may include thoughts on:

• places I’ve lived

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• overnight train rides

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• blended family anarchy

• questionable parenting tactics

• moving from London to not-London in a pandemic

• being a female human

• plus inconsistent, eclectic and uncharted shite

All spread generously with self-unaware and shameless over-sharing.

So why pick up Litter?

It’s the right thing to do.

Who picks up Litter?

You do. Change the world