Tourists aren’t that bad

Not long ago, I went to Marlow. A small English town which by all accounts should be fairly standard and average. The weather was a light drizzle to really add to the mediocracy of the town. However, what set it apart from the other small English towns I’ve visited was that last summer I read

Gelato snobbery

Continuing the collection of posts based on my time living in Italy last summer, we move onto arguably the most important aspect of Italian culture and cuisine – gelato. One of the benefits of living so close to so much good food is that you have the chance to start understanding what makes it so

Poetry again

Borrow someone else’s confidence There’s plenty to go around Drink it in and let it fill you up Take it by the hand Barrel onto the dancefloor It doesn’t have to be your usual You’re sharing a personality As your spinning, following spirals Let their overflowing supply cover you With glitter and stars For one

Accessibility and Art

Art has a reputation for red wine, boujee gallery openings, and incomprehensible pieces. Yet also, within that scale, are the pieces of art that the general public look at and thinks “I could’ve done that”. Often this is seen as a derogatory statement to make – the artist shouldn’t really be celebrated to the extent

I don’t care that much about being beautiful?

Somehow, this year I ended up in a conversation, entirely in Italian, where I was told I was beautiful and my eyes were the colour of a swimming pool. I replied, saying (in poor Italian) that usually I get told my eyes are grey. In any case, my eyes were definitely not the colour of

Existential Joy?!?!

For some reason, the philosophy department at my university thought it would be fitting to schedule the weekly ‘Existentialism’ lectures in first year for 9 am on a Monday morning. This nicely prepared me and most of the group to spend the entire week reflecting on the question of “what’s the point of life?” before

Look Who’s Back

Hello again! It’s been a couple of months since I last wrote on this blog. Perhaps you missed it, perhaps you hadn’t noticed. Either way, I’m back with some new topics and ideas to give my entirely unqualified thoughts on.  I feel like I should offer some sort of excuse for my disappearance without a