Carpe Diem
A poem to remind us to live each day and not to waste it… Carpe diem; seize they day, Don’t let life pass you by. Be full of colour, not shades of grey, Carpe diem; seize the day Don’t you let it...
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I first read this book for a critical approaches class on my English degree course… It took me my bus ride to uni to finish it (approx. 45mins); a very short book but very captivating none the less. I...
View ArticleThe Home of Wordsworth
Dove Cottage in Grasmere is one of three sites in the Lake District that William Wordsworth was connected to during his lifetime; the others being his birthplace in Cockermouth, and his final...
View ArticleMy NaNoWriMo Experience
I first heard about National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo, on the BBC breakfast show, but it didn’t occur to me at that moment to actually take part in the challenge of writing 50,000...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Oliver! Oliver!
I have a confession to make… I have never read anything by Charles Dickens. I managed to go through all of my education, including studying English at degree level, bypassing Dickens entirely and have...
View ArticleLavender Cupcakes
With Summer blooming in typical British fashion… with rain, it’s time to enjoy the fare that it has to offer. In a recent article for a magazine supplement in The Daily Mail, Jamie Oliver champions...
View ArticleThe Olympic Torch in Birmingham
Early on a Sunday morning, before breakfast had even been eaten, the family and I headed to a little area in Birmingham called Earlswood, to see the Olympic torch pass through. Now, I’m not exactly a...
View ArticleLove Obviously
Violets are blue, Roses are red, The alphabet runs from A to Zed. I’m not gonna Write you a love song, Because you think That you deserve one; I’m not gonna compare you To a summer’s day, When I’m...
View ArticleArtsFest 2012
The second weekend in September has been Arts Fest weekend in Birmingham for the past 15 years. According to the website; ArtsFest celebrates the West Midland region’s astounding wealth of creative...
View ArticleCarpe Diem
A poem to remind us to live each day and not to waste it… Carpe diem; seize they day, Don’t let life pass you by. Be full of colour, not shades of grey, Carpe [...]
View ArticleYellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I first read this book for a critical approaches class on my English degree course… It took me my bus ride to uni to finish it (approx. 45mins); a very short book but very captivating none [...]
View ArticleThe Home of Wordsworth
Dove Cottage in Grasmere is one of three sites in the Lake District that William Wordsworth was connected to during his lifetime; the others being his birthplace in Cockermouth, and his final home...
View ArticleMy NaNoWriMo Experience
I first heard about National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo, on the BBC breakfast show, but it didn’t occur to me at that moment to actually take part in the challenge of writing 50,000...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Oliver! Oliver!
I have a confession to make… I have never read anything by Charles Dickens. I managed to go through all of my education, including studying English at degree level, bypassing Dickens entirely and have...
View ArticleLavender Cupcakes
With Summer blooming in typical British fashion… with rain, it’s time to enjoy the fare that it has to offer. In a recent article for a magazine supplement in The Daily Mail, Jamie Oliver champions [...]
View ArticleThe Olympic Torch in Birmingham
Early on a Sunday morning, before breakfast had even been eaten, the family and I headed to a little area in Birmingham called Earlswood, to see the Olympic torch pass through. Now, I’m not exactly [...]
View ArticleLove Obviously
Violets are blue, Roses are red, The alphabet runs from A to Zed. I’m not gonna Write you a love song, Because you think That you deserve one; I’m not gonna compare you [...]
View ArticleArtsFest 2012
The second weekend in September has been Arts Fest weekend in Birmingham for the past 15 years. According to the website; ArtsFest celebrates the West Midland region’s astounding wealth of creative...
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