Sophie Heawood
@heawood.bsky.social
Journalist, of sorts. Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. Read more on heawood.substack.com
WE HAVE A WINNER! It's Deptford. Zone 2, south east London. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
WE HAVE A WINNER! It's Deptford. Zone 2, south east London. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
If you don't know whereabouts in London this is, what would you guess?
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If you don't know whereabouts in London this is, what would you guess?
From the many, to the few: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Your Party receives ‘small portion’ of withheld supporters’ donations
Row continues between camps of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, whose company holds hundreds of thousands of pounds of party funds
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
From the many, to the few: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The Beckham feud has hurt everyone! So thank God the Mail are here to pour oil on our nationally and internationally devastated waters. And then set it alight.
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The Beckham feud has hurt everyone! So thank God the Mail are here to pour oil on our nationally and internationally devastated waters. And then set it alight.
Does anyone have any thoughts on whether the trains between London and York at the weekend will be affected by this? I mean they're constantly getting cancelled so my instinct says yeah you're scoobied...
Get yourself ready for Storm Claudia. Torches in easy reach and storm lamps and power banks charged. Charge your phone, fill the kettle and get your snacks on standby
Storm Claudia to bring heavy and disruptive rain for many
Storm Claudia will bring impactful rain for much of England and Wales on Friday and into early Saturday, with Amber warnings issued by the Met Office.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Does anyone have any thoughts on whether the trains between London and York at the weekend will be affected by this? I mean they're constantly getting cancelled so my instinct says yeah you're scoobied...
If I said that Camden Council were selling off an old flat of theirs, you probably wouldn't expect this: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 3 bedroom flat for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom flat for sale in Glenmore Road, Belsize Park, London, NW3 for £1,400,000. Marketed by Heywoods Estate Agents, Belsize Park
www.rightmove.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If I said that Camden Council were selling off an old flat of theirs, you probably wouldn't expect this: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Would like to know if anyone, while we discuss the mental health crisis in kids, is researching this in relation to periods? Obviously boys are suffering too so this might not work, but the teenage girls and younger in my life have MUCH worse periods than I did, than my mum did. And started younger.
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Would like to know if anyone, while we discuss the mental health crisis in kids, is researching this in relation to periods? Obviously boys are suffering too so this might not work, but the teenage girls and younger in my life have MUCH worse periods than I did, than my mum did. And started younger.
My column on how you can always tell who's going to win an election: heawood.substack.com/p/the-politi...
The politics of enjoying it
You can always tell who's going to win
heawood.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
My column on how you can always tell who's going to win an election: heawood.substack.com/p/the-politi...
Oh good I’m sat next to the man playing guitar on the overground. Some people are standing but please three seats for the width of his guitar.
November 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Oh good I’m sat next to the man playing guitar on the overground. Some people are standing but please three seats for the width of his guitar.
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@heawood.bsky.social on the front page as she should be 👌
November 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
@heawood.bsky.social on the front page as she should be 👌
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Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
October 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
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Re Lily Allen, a friend just sent me this by @heawood.bsky.social and it is fantastic writing heawood.substack.com/p/love-and-g...
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Re Lily Allen, a friend just sent me this by @heawood.bsky.social and it is fantastic writing heawood.substack.com/p/love-and-g...
Lily Allen has taken us from Hot Girl Summer to Divorced Mum Winter and I am here for it.
October 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Lily Allen has taken us from Hot Girl Summer to Divorced Mum Winter and I am here for it.
I will never tell this Kate Bush story again. I can't.
This is SO GOOD by @heawood.bsky.social on Lily Allen’s new album, and Lily Allen full stop. I am vicariously living the pain of that Kate Bush anecdote. open.substack.com/pub/heawood/...
Love and gaslight:
Obsessing over the Lily Allen I know
open.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I will never tell this Kate Bush story again. I can't.
I stayed up all night listening to her new album and then I wrote this about the Lily Allen I know: heawood.substack.com/p/love-and-g...
Love and gaslight:
Obsessing over the Lily Allen I know
heawood.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I stayed up all night listening to her new album and then I wrote this about the Lily Allen I know: heawood.substack.com/p/love-and-g...
Lily Allen having a song on her new album called Nonmonogamummy has made me very happy.
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Lily Allen having a song on her new album called Nonmonogamummy has made me very happy.
I realise that Aesop is already the punchline to any hipster soap joke but I tested their perfumes this week and the sales assistant told me, with a face of pure sad poetry, "Other perfumes smell of things but ours smell of feelings and of places." I wouldn't mind but they smelled of mud.
October 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I realise that Aesop is already the punchline to any hipster soap joke but I tested their perfumes this week and the sales assistant told me, with a face of pure sad poetry, "Other perfumes smell of things but ours smell of feelings and of places." I wouldn't mind but they smelled of mud.
Someone on my Nextdoor app has a cat called Colin Feral.
October 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Someone on my Nextdoor app has a cat called Colin Feral.
I’m not saying my 13 year old is actually evil but she’s sent me a photo of her new eyebrow piercing while I’m in the queue to board a plane and not see her for a week. The timing is iconic though tbf.
September 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I’m not saying my 13 year old is actually evil but she’s sent me a photo of her new eyebrow piercing while I’m in the queue to board a plane and not see her for a week. The timing is iconic though tbf.
Quietly impressed by Corbyn and Sultana managing to reach the betrayal-of-the-Granita pact bit before they've even been to Granita.
September 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Quietly impressed by Corbyn and Sultana managing to reach the betrayal-of-the-Granita pact bit before they've even been to Granita.
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Your Party (Zarah’s Version)
September 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Your Party (Zarah’s Version)
Shout out to all the editors on here: have you paid your freelancers? Currently waiting for one newspaper to allow me to invoice for something I did in July. Yes that would be allow me to invoice. (I've been trying to check their rates and other details.) Do they think we have salaries elsewhere?
September 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Shout out to all the editors on here: have you paid your freelancers? Currently waiting for one newspaper to allow me to invoice for something I did in July. Yes that would be allow me to invoice. (I've been trying to check their rates and other details.) Do they think we have salaries elsewhere?
My interview with a frightened and funny Alicia Vikander, who reveals that she has been rehearsing for her new play with an AI version of her co-star Andrew Lincoln, which she created on an app. She says the AI version of Andrew is actually quite good... www.standard.co.uk/culture/thea...
Alicia Vikander: "I'm rehearsing my play with an AI Andrew Lincoln!"
The Oscar-winning actor is making her theatre debut in a new version of Ibsen at the Bridge. It’s still a work in progress — and she’s freaking out
www.standard.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
My interview with a frightened and funny Alicia Vikander, who reveals that she has been rehearsing for her new play with an AI version of her co-star Andrew Lincoln, which she created on an app. She says the AI version of Andrew is actually quite good... www.standard.co.uk/culture/thea...
Daughter has left the house wearing a hoodie that she has screenprinted a union jack flag onto. Have told her all about the marches and St George's cross and the racism, fascism. She gets it, to the extent a 13-year-old can. Now thinking I should have put my foot down about the hoodie. Aargh.
September 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Daughter has left the house wearing a hoodie that she has screenprinted a union jack flag onto. Have told her all about the marches and St George's cross and the racism, fascism. She gets it, to the extent a 13-year-old can. Now thinking I should have put my foot down about the hoodie. Aargh.
Message to single straight men who would like to meet someone: go on a creative writing retreat. Always dominated by single straight women and always involves emotional work that opens up the heart and the local bar, leading to great opportunities for immediate and regrettable behaviour.
September 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Message to single straight men who would like to meet someone: go on a creative writing retreat. Always dominated by single straight women and always involves emotional work that opens up the heart and the local bar, leading to great opportunities for immediate and regrettable behaviour.