Stop the Presses! Where’s the Tea? March 31, 2008

It takes a passion that can move mountains when a broke and debt-floundering graduate is willing to sacrifice regular work in favour of a weeks unpaid work experience at the local rag. I am not this person, luckily I have heisted my week of pencil-licking from my paid annual leave so I am if anything [...]

The Registry or Religion Debate March 30, 2008

One of my colleagues from work has been proposed to very recently (and rather unwittingly after a monumental one-night stand, gossip, gossip) and so the topic of weddings has been prominent in the workplace this week.
All this wedding talk has got me to thinking about weddings and marriage. I am a young, romantic female [...]

A Danish Day-Dream March 30, 2008

As one holiday recedes into photo-albums and folders of tickets and novel sweetie wrappers and beermats another winks on the horizon.
The thing I love about working and earning money is that you get 20 days of paid annual leave which you cannot take off willy-nilly, you must plan, prepare and allocate them wisely forcing you [...]

There’s little gratification in being a domestic godess. March 8, 2008

At 6:30am this morning my alarm woke me up and I jumped out of bed, heart pounding and cursing to myself that I couldn’t believe that I forgot that had work today. Moments later I slapped myself on the forehead and remembered that I don’t go to work on Saturdays. I put this momentary panic [...]

Most Important Cat in Cinema March 5, 2008

Cats appear a lot in cinema… probably not as much as dogs but certainly more than lemurs, hamsters and tapirs when i comes to significant characters in the plots of movies. Dogs are the quadrapeds that dominate Hollywood partly because they can be trained much more easily, because human beings can rely on dogs as [...]

Where will Tatler’s Future Beauties come from? March 5, 2008

It takes an exceptionally beautiful woman to be balanced lovingly by Tatler’s expertly manicured and Dead Sea softened hands atop the monumentally iconic Best Dressed list. Agyness Deyn is beauty. Not only beauty, to paraphrase some of my favourite Shakespear, “it will endure wind and weather”. Deyn is not some mincing, touseled, St Barts and [...]

Springtime Train of Thought March 2, 2008

Spring has sprung and the veritable albatross that has burrowed itself into my roof is getting very excited about it at 6am every morning. Needless to say, my WWF-leanings are slowly evaporating as I draw ever closer to trapping and killing the bloody thing and making it into Sunday dinner!
Dad says it is a nest [...]