She has!!!
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I’m so intrigued by this rug, does anybody have a pic?
Her mother is an Hon- so Pandora isn’t. She’s a Miss/Ms/Mrs/Mx
I came on here to lurk a while back after a search for Pandora’s earrings found the thread (honestly). At the time I’d bookmarked one of her travel posts on her blog to read, and when I went to read it the blog had gone- she deleted all but a few ST/Elle articles in the days leading up to publication (and then relaunched her website). The PanDolly has also been deleted from the iTunes archive too.
I’m like 90% sure it’s this one (but she also has another ludicrously expensive white fluffy rug in her bedroom, which i’m pretty sure is worth a few grand too)
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Wow that’s a mismatch of different styles all thrown in one room isn’t it! Not my taste ha.
The rug looks painfully average? Rich people man. 3 grand.
I really like a lot of her house but that room is ... too much.... and yup, though I think you mean ‘middle class people’ (
)I literally have a rug not too dissimilar to that in my living room off Wayfair, it was £200.
It’s interesting because I can’t relate to Pandora from a money / class perspective but I sometimes find her easier to relate to than Dolly as she’s a mother. Dolly just seems younger to me and the way she’s so romantic / obsessed about men just makes me feel tired and jaded in a ‘wait till you’ve got other things to worry about’ way. That’s unfair and it’s my fault but just a gut reaction.
I read an interview where Pandora said she only had three months maternity leave because of the expectations of HighLow listeners that I thought was a bit odd. It’s nice to be wanted back (can you imagine if nobody cared foe something like that, they’d be no point returning) but you can’t blame a load of random listeners, you need to make your decisions. Also - plenty of women return to manual, low paid jobs with no choice. Just thought it was a bit weird.
I read an interview where Pandora said she only had three months maternity leave because of the expectations of HighLow listeners that I thought was a bit odd. It’s nice to be wanted back (can you imagine if nobody cared foe something like that, they’d be no point returning) but you can’t blame a load of random listeners, you need to make your decisions. Also - plenty of women return to manual, low paid jobs with no choice. Just thought it was a bit weird.
She loves to remind people how short her maternity leave was but fails to acknowledge what a unique position she was in. She had a full-time nanny, a supportive partner, and was working from home which brings its own flexibility and probably had her child close by even when she was working. I've noticed whenever people challenge or question her she loves to get in that she has a "new baby" too.
I thought they came back because of isolation, so it's interesting to hear that. I only started listening late last year and in the run up to them taking a break, was under the impression that they would be away a lot longer for Pandora's maternity had the UK not gone into lockdown.
The rug was definitely a gift/partial gift from The Rug Company:
www.therugcompany.com
At Home With: Pandora Sykes
Pandora Sykes is a journalist and speaker from London. Currently a Contributing Editor at ELLE magazine and the co-host of the UKs number 1 culture podcast, The High Low, she is currently writing a book of essays about modern life, called How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right? which
www.therugcompany.com
Omg, knew she would.
The amount she bangs on about not using social media while, er, on social media, is cringeworthy. She clearly has a real issue with it, if she’s struggling that much then she should stay off completely.
That’s a really weird statement for her to make, especially when most of their listeners are women of a similar age.
Also, I would say there’s a vast difference between going back to recording a podcast (from your own home, once a week, which someone else then edits and produces) and going back to work after maternity leave for most women. The privilege is off the charts!
Omg yes I noticed this and totally forgot to say! So funny. Really don't need that disclosure, especially when she's back all over it when she has something to promote.
Hmm interesting about the Hon. I was always confused about if Pandora would actually be considered middle class - what do you all think? She seems to refer to herself as such, e.g. I've read her mentioning her book features middle class anxieties or something along those lines.
Totally agree. Going back to record a podcast from home/Dollys house/wherever, while having a nanny, compared to a parent who is going back to an 8 hour a day, possibly also with a long commute, is pretty incomparable. Though to be fair I do think she realises this.
This. She always seems so defensive about it, but exactly – it's not like she's getting up at 6am for a rush our commute to an office and spending 8 hours there and commuting home. It's literally a chat with a best friend, IN HER OWN HOME! I get she needs to research for it and stuff but given she reads about 13,000 books a week I fail to see how that is a huge burden.
Did anyone listen to her book promo podcast? If so what did you think? I really liked Dollys one 'Love Stories' but not that fussed about downloading Pandora's. I would have loved to see her incorporate normal women with interesting stories. Not sure how it would have worked and maybe not ideal as people are more likely to listen to famous people they recognise, but would have been different and more authentic.
Pandora has also deleted the "love ya tiger mom" tweet response to Nelle about the Guardian article "kill piece". I'm guessing she's regretting her petulant outburst now...
I know criticism hurts and I do feel for her it's not nice to read and must sting being in the Guardian and the article having such a positive response on Twitter. But come on, majorly embarrassing and unprofessional behaviour.
Pandora has also deleted the "love ya tiger mom" tweet response to Nelle about the Guardian article "kill piece". I'm guessing she's regretting her petulant outburst now...
I know criticism hurts and I do feel for her it's not nice to read and must sting being in the Guardian and the article having such a positive response on Twitter. But come on, majorly embarrassing and unprofessional behaviour.
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I listened to the first one because I love Joe Lycett. But it was a pretty generic interview and the connection with the book was tenuous to say the least. As someone who follows Joe Lycett's work but not in huge detail I didn't feel I learned anything new. I think Dolly is a good interviewer but I don't think Pandora carried it.
Have only listened to three, but enjoyed the second ep with Sinead Burke. Having said that, my enjoyment was totally down to... Sinead Burke. She had so much interesting stuff to say and really opened my eyes to a lot of the everyday ableism she must face. The stuff about using public bathrooms was gutting. The ep with Joe Lycett (who I think is great) was totally pointless and I zoned out during Dotty Charles’s ep (largely when she said ‘We shouldn’t rely on Black people to come on podcasts/TV/write articles at moments of heightened awareness just to talk about Black trauma; we should highlight their work all the time and invite them to discuss other societal issues/general commentary as we do others.’ And Pandora had to pretend that inviting a Black woman on to talk about trauma wasn’t exactly what she’d JUST DONE AND CONSTANTLY DOES. Anywaaaay...)
Yah I don’t like being criticised in my appraisal but appaza no one gives a duck and I have to be constructive about it *picks nails*.
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