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Posted on May 10, 2020 Leave a Comment
It started with Heartburn. The novel, you understand, by Nora Ephron. It had come my way as a recommendation from a friend, as a book perfect for These Times. And it was. For three glorious days I was transported out of myself and lockdown London and into the life of Rachel (Nora) and the 1970s on […]
Posted on April 24, 2020 Leave a Comment
This week, satirical website the Onion ran this headline about the coronavirus pandemic: Man Not Sure Why He Thought Most Psychologically Taxing Situation Of His Life Would Be The Thing To Make Him Productive And we all laugh, right? Because we’ve all, at some point, declared that we’re going to learn French or get fit […]
Posted on December 31, 2019 Leave a Comment
This year I laughed a lot. I faced my fears and made a film. I will never do it again. I got to feel a warm breeze as I watched Caribbean waves. I read good books and not enough of them. I lost and found myself in stories. This year I began learning to be […]
Posted on January 14, 2017 2 Comments
It’s two weeks into 2017 and things are starting to come together. After a bumpy end to last year, I finally have full-time care sorted out (hurrah!) and some idea about where I am going with life. I am carving out a new existence back in London, at home for now but with plans to be […]
Posted on June 7, 2016 Leave a Comment
Exams are over. I have finished my degree. I am still in complete denial because I can’t believe I will never again get a book out the library or get lost in the social science building. It’s taken me a week of sleep and relaxation to process that in itself, and now somehow I have just three weeks […]
Posted on March 27, 2016 Leave a Comment
It’s late at night and I’m in a pensive mood, so of course I’ve ended up here after a long time away. And as it’s Easter Sunday, I don’t have to feel any should-be-working guilt. In fact, I don’t have anything in particular to say. Perhaps that’s a dangerous way to start a blog post, […]
Posted on October 24, 2015 Leave a Comment
As ever, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything apart from course notes. Again, I’ve slipped back into university – lectures, reading, friends, not enough sleep – and out of writing. I don’t know why it’s so much harder here; I don’t know why all the ideas I had in the summer have disappeared […]
Posted on September 24, 2015 Leave a Comment
I’m going back up to Warwick next Saturday for my final year, which has come around way too quickly. As I desperately try, and fail, to cross things off my to-do list, I am struck by how long it has been since I posted here. I admit I don’t really have an excuse for my […]
Posted on July 12, 2015 Leave a Comment
What a week it has been. Between the Greek crisis, the anniversary of 7/7, and the budget, just the first three days were hectic. And then from there we had budget fallout, the unfolding situation in Tunisia, a Chinese banking crisis and, of course. more Greece. As a new week starts, it remains entirely possible […]
Posted on June 11, 2015 Leave a Comment
My second year at university saw success on three fronts: more work, more reading and more writing. Somewhere along the way, I learnt quite a bit; about myself, journalism and politics. And so, having, like a lot of journalists, bemoaned the advent of the ‘listicle’ (which I still maintain should not be a word), I […]
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