To put it mildly 2015 has been a hard year. Filled with some ups but predominantly downs, a roller coaster without gravity. So I am very, very happy to tell 2015 to get stuffed and see what 2016 has to bring now, naively seeing only green on the other side perhaps! I will be posting … Continue reading My 2015 – 12 Songs, 12 Months
Category: Random Ramblings
The words we tie together in tribute
This is by far the hardest post I have had to write, mainly as I know that the words I tie together into sentences will do no justice to what I want to tell you about. Regardless of this I have decided to tell you about Pamela James, my grandmother who died this week at … Continue reading The words we tie together in tribute
Running with Goosebumps – Why I Run
So this week I earned an Olympic medal... Ok, that is a slight embellishment of the truth but I got your attention right? In actual fact I just took part in another of my 10Ks, this one's route circumnavigated the Olympic Park in London. The part of this race that made the heat and the seemingly … Continue reading Running with Goosebumps – Why I Run
Post-back and Three Song Playlists
This week I got a message from WordPress telling me that I have been blogging for five years. To celebrate my half a decade of blogging, I'm going to introduce two new features to my blog and the posts that go on it. The first is something I've unoriginally entitled 'Post-back', it will be a … Continue reading Post-back and Three Song Playlists
Take a moment and read, please.
Below is an incredibly powerful and moving article written by my friend Caz about depression. I have been trying to write about this topic ever since I started my blog but have always fallen short. Whenever I get to the end of the piece and read my writing back it always reads hollow. I find it hard to write about … Continue reading Take a moment and read, please.
A Box of Photographs
Yesterday, in the room I used to call my world in my parents house I found a box. It was a box I packed away on the eve of my graduation from university all those years ago and had not touched it since. In it was nothing but photographs; arty shots I took long before … Continue reading A Box of Photographs
For we are all stories in the end
This quote has been floating around my head for the last month and since I have been tragically bad at writing a blog post lately I thought I would discuss the idea of chapters in one’s life and the stories we create. “I’ll be a story in your head. But that’s ok: we’re all stories, … Continue reading For we are all stories in the end
Going to Vote
Voting, one of the simplest but most empowering things humans can do. Throughout the UK today polling stations are emerging from their five year hibernation so that we can play our part, however small, in history. They pop up in villages halls, pubs, laundrettes and even a bus just to make sure that people can easily … Continue reading Going to Vote
After Charlie Hebdo
Shamefully I have been back from Paris for a few weeks now but haven’t really found the time to sit down and actually write about the experiences whilst in my favourite city. I have been many times over the past few years so I won’t dribble on about how tall the Eiffel Tower is or … Continue reading After Charlie Hebdo
Finishing a Book
There is a strange feeling in finishing something you were so invested in. I’ve recently finished two long brilliant novels and it has got me thinking about endings. I have always flicked to the end of a book to see what number the book ends on, so I can count down to the final page. … Continue reading Finishing a Book
