2014-12-30 21:59
It's July and can you believe the sun is shining?! ☼ ☼ ☼This past month has been a bit up-and-down. A few weeks ago I decided to get a nose piercing, which has now gon… Read More
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2014-11-13 20:29
With the ceramic poppies at the Tower of London aside, it seems a growing abundance of 'poppy fascism' has wickedly stolen the limelight from Remembrance Day more so this year than any other… Read More
2014-09-23 17:03
When Emma Watson began her speech at the launch of the United Nation's gender equality campaign in New York yesterday, she made a point of addressing every person in the room."Your excellenc… Read More
2014-09-18 22:21
The beginning of September saw myself and six friends do one of the coolest things I think I will probably ever do.It was my best friend Alice's idea to sign up to Zip World, home to the lon… Read More
2014-07-31 22:46
I would probably best describe the music my 19 year old brother blasts from his bedroom as, at the risk of sounding very old, "just noise". Never an ideal supplement for a headache, a… Read More
2014-07-19 12:23
If you've just completed your degree – congratulations! Not everybody that started managed to finish, so count yourself as part of the special club that did.There are few sensations in… Read More
2014-07-13 14:10
Exams loomed at the start of May but revision came to a brief pause for the return of the city’s biggest music festival City.Sound.Project, which saw the likes of George Ezra, Gorgon C… Read More
2014-06-16 14:41
University is finally coming to a climactic end for students up and down the country, but a fundamental reliance upon student loans during the past three or four years may also leave many re… Read More
2014-05-13 09:02
Coldplay's "Atlas" (not to be confused with the classic Etta James song "At Last" which I foolishly keep typing by mistake) was released earlier this month, recorded for the soundtrack of th… Read More
2014-04-27 12:34
I've loved books for as long as I can remember. As a child, my parents and I would read Shirley Hughes, Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Lyn Wendon, Michael Rosen and Val Biro, the latter of which v… Read More
2014-04-23 21:27
(A little piece I submitted for my Creative Writing module at Uni.)Once upon a time in a land far, far away lived an assortment of famous fairytale characters each battling with a bout of al… Read More
2014-04-23 11:10
Twas the night before Christmas and down the rain poured,Black cloud coated skies as the icy wind roared,But in slippers and snow-patterned socks sitting cosyWere a family of five with their… Read More
2014-04-06 21:41
Today's post is a sort of continuation from a small piece I wrote a couple of months ago called "Age isn't a number in the world of radio", discussing the ongoing battle between ageism and t… Read More
2014-04-06 21:40
A band you love and worship have announced they're going on tour, and like any crazed fanatic, you are up at the crack of dawn on ticket release day to ensure you and your mates will be ther… Read More
2014-04-06 21:39
Today I woke up to the very sad news that Sky News cameraman Mick Deane has been shot dead whilst covering the violent protests in Cairo, Egypt. Deane had worked with Sky News for fifteen ye… Read More
2014-04-06 21:34
This year I reluctantly signed up to a Creative Writing module on my course at University, and recently we were set a task to write a piece to submit and have our classmates read and evaluat… Read More
2014-04-06 21:32
At the start of this month, I started my third and final year of University, which I find to be very weird. In fact, if I was given a £10 note for every time I have uttered the words "… Read More
2014-04-06 21:31
A self-proclaimed Caitlin Moran enthusiast, I am therefore almost obligated to admire her husband, 'Time Lord of Pop' Pete Paphides who regularly graces my ears with his presence o… Read More
2014-03-15 16:56
This is a little poem I have written for my Creative Writing module at Uni.Happy January all :) x-Just in case,Keep it in a case,You might need it again, someday.Instructions for toysYou no… Read More
2014-02-19 16:38
Tonight will see the 34th edition of the BRIT Awards held at the spectacular O2 Arena in London and hosted for the fifth and final time by James Corden. Sadly, this year I will not be watchi… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I've never written a film review before, which you will probably realise once you've finished reading today’s post. The closest I've got to writing anything remotely similar is a book… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Andy Warhol famously stated in 1968 that "in the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes." How you spent your fifteen minutes is entirely dependent upon who you are as a pe… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
December is a list-writing month. We read lists and we write lists all month long. List after list after list. Christmas lists, shopping lists, to-do lists and still-left-to-do lists and Oh… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Today is International Women's Day - a day to celebrate and embrace femininity, acknowledge our greatest female role models from the past to the present day, and recognise the challenges and… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Blogger and I have had, what Gwyneth and Chris would call, an 'unconscious uncoupling' and parted ways.You can find all my latest posts and rambles on my new WordPress blog - just click on t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
2014 has, like any other year, been a blend of the good, the bad and the downright mad.Knee deep in essays, novels and deadlines at the start of January, December has certainly offered a dos… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
2013 has seen the official birth of the media hate figure, and like selfies and the norovirus (the former abundant in egotism, the latter infested with germs), they are absolutely everywhere… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Today the BBC announced the launch of the BBC Music Awards which will take place at Earls Court in London. The show will hit our screens on BBC One on 11 December, plugged as a "prime t… Read More
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