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Hello, and Happy Valentine’s Day! This week, I had a mix of work and pleasure - an NUJ meeting with award-winning TikTok journo Sophia Smith Galer and a Valentine’s mini-break in London with Julieta.
As tradition holds, Julieta gets a card every year from me, masquerading as a secret admirer with good hair and no BO - they seem to be in short supply at college! 😘
We stayed at the London Hilton Bankside (love the heated pool, the reason I stay there and I had it all to myself). Nothing bothers me after a swim - it’s the best feeling ever and a reminder that I need to do more of it.
Bankside is also a great location - right by the Tate Modern, so we pottered around the gallery (“I don’t get it. I was doing drawings like that in Year 3…”) and then walked along Southbank into town. Over 20,000 steps that day - she tracked it on her phone. Easy when shopping!
Monday’s event on TikTok & Journalism didn’t go as planned. We had tech troubles with the new kit (now hybrid), so…