Oh, the places we’ll go!

May 2, 2012
Oh, the places we’ll go!

Many of you know, many of you may not know, that I’m in the middle of the very long and painful (emotionally) process of renewing my visa.  After jumping through many fiery hoops, including taking a ‘Life In The UK’ test (the same test they give to those requesting citizenship status), and paying nearly a...

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What I Know Is…

May 2, 2012
What I Know Is…

There’s an exciting exhibition at the Glasgow International Visual Art Festival this year, run by Shelton Walker, Carla Easton and Marlena Morris, named ‘What I Know Is’ (or The WIKI Project).  The concept is brilliant (in my opinion) simply because not only do these...

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Vanilla

March 16, 2012
Vanilla

I read an interesting article this week about Ben and Jerry’s changing the name of one of their flavours of ice cream, in order to show support for gay marriage in the UK. There’s controversy surrounding this issue, namely because same-sex civil partnerships are...

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Concept

February 28, 2012
Concept

As many of you know already (and those of you who don’t are about to be told), I am an amateur photographer.  I’m not quite sure why I use...

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Wellington!

January 23, 2012
Wellington!

Although it’s not as snowy/icy as last year (dare I speak too soon?), I still haven’t bought myself any sort of sensible clothing for this weather.  I should know...

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Reading is sexy

January 21, 2012

I have a confession to make, before I go any further: I bought a Kindle. Ok, ok, I know, a purist like me would never use an electronic book...

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