Cressida Valentine

The Paris Diaries: Service Continu

I have a second shower and breathe heat from every pore.

Aug 17 • Cressida Valentine

The Paris Diaries: Cold Courgettes Call me Home

Her stomach is swollen with Sunday lunch.

Aug 13 • Cressida Valentine

Excited Selfies

Her breast is bared to the banks of the Thames at 3:16 on a Sunday afternoon.

Aug 2 • Cressida Valentine

July 2026

Read the Blurb

I wear no clothes and I spend quite a lot of time alone.

Jul 12 • Cressida Valentine

June 2026

We Never Took the Wedding Vows

I am looking at her back and I see the aisle like a runway ahead of her, fuzzy like the heat off an airplane, like landing in India or Dubai.

Jun 22 • Cressida Valentine

Stop Crying in the Chippie

They smell like Pornstar Martinis and teeter down Victoria in slim-fit white high heels.

Jun 7 • Cressida Valentine

April 2026

I Believe it is Orange

The Diaries of I, February to April

Apr 25 • Cressida Valentine

February 2026

London: Ginger Shots on an Empty Stomach

I start a new job on the full moon and pick up a £10 note on Kensington High St as I step out of work on the Friday evening.

Feb 24 • Cressida Valentine

January 2026

Aus iv: Sydney Care Less

There are apricots and coffee half way across the world, and the kookaburra still sings from his gum tree.

Jan 15 • Cressida Valentine

AUS iii: Sandwiches are Upsidedown

I leave half bananas in the fridge and I eat one with breakfast on a wood-decked terrace, drinking almond milk coffee on a day which promises to be 40C.

Jan 7 • Cressida Valentine