I love Chick Flicks

You know the film. The poster’s colour scheme largely revolves around shades of barbie pink, the main (fem) character made up to the nines, possibly draped over some hunk of a man, otherwise backed up by some equally glamorous girls. Bonus points for exaggerated posing. The sort of film that instantly gets ruled out when

Another little poem

Winter is never easy, more so without the warmth of those you love without someone to call you ‘flower’ and add stickers to envelopes without someone beckoning you over to distribute their Christmas cards without the bracketed (surname) to remind you of what part of your family they belong to without the memories of last

Tracks of my years

I find it fascinating how our senses store different things in our brains, connecting them to obscure scents at Grandma’s house, food I tasted once at school, or even a song listened to in the car on a Scottish holiday. I was reminded of this recently, coming across Martyn Joseph’s discography on my phone and

There’s too much

I’ve not even started writing and already I get the feeling that this may come across as slightly hypocritical. However, I will set off on my argument with wild abandon for rules. From my humble perspective, there seem to be a lot more films nowadays. Also a lot more TV series. And music too, now

Falling Back In Love

Back in 2013, I first heard the ey-ey-ohs of the introduction to Bastille’s Pompeii. It sounds ridiculous but I do look back on that moment as a turning point in my history, the beginning of a new chapter. We learnt choreography to the beginning of the song in my BTEC Dance class and I made

The latest TV obsession…

Over last year and the past 4 (?) weeks I’ve been watching BBC3’s Glow Up and absolutely loving it. No, I’m not someone who wears make-up regularly or really has a clue what they’re doing when I do use it. In fact, I only started semi-regularly wearing make-up at uni. But much like all the

ABBA and AI

Back in my second year of university, I had chosen to take a module titled “Philosophy of Cognitive Science and AI’. I was under the impression it was all going to be robots and ethical thought experiments. It was not. Very quickly, I discovered that it might have been useful to have a background degree

Teenagers, Troubles, and Irish Accents

Derry Girls has returned to our screens with their third and final series, once again throwing us into the lives of Erin, Orla, Clare, Michelle, and James – five girls (well, one’s a boy) from Derry (again, the bloke is from London) making their way through the turmoil of being a teenager in the 90s.

Some More Poetry Perhaps

I have mentioned before that I sometimes write poems. As we approach Spring and the sun returns to us once again, I was reminded of this one I wrote at some point in my past. It celebrates one of my favourite little creatures. They have some really interesting significance in Egyptian mythology that I would

Travelling by Song

A while ago, I asked friends to send me songs with place names in the title. I wanted to listen to them and find out what they really tell us about the places they claim to be about. I have collated them here, along with my description of the place, based on their songs. Before

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