Newbies and the NCTJ Exams January 6, 2009

This month is going to be a shitstorm for me. She says, blissfully typing away not at all procrastinating from revising the entire contents of the McNaes Essential Law for Journalists tome. Usually when facing terrifiying exams like this, before the 11th hour when I cram furiously I tend to just hide in the gym. [...]

Religious Exercises September 30, 2008

In my latest chapter of achieving personal fitness as not having a daily 14 mile round trip on my push-bike  will certainly wreak havoc on my soon to be gelatinous glutials – I have resolved to work the equivalent of a daily cross-county cycle into my academic timetable by joining the gym, that veritable temple [...]

Missscribbler’s A – Z of Cycling August 6, 2008

I just read a short article on The Times website entitled “Boris Johnson’s A – Z of cycling”. The article made me chuckle and so I have compiled my own A – Z of cycling. A – Ankles. Getting nipped by nettles when a big car pushes you into the verge on a narrow road. [...]

Encounters of the Two-Wheeled Kind July 31, 2008

Cycling is a wonderful activity, bringing you closer to nature, extending your lifespan (horrific cattlegrid mishaps aside) and generating interesting talking-points about your hilarious escapades in the countryside or else gloatable achievments like clambering up a 15 degree incline and not even having to slip into first gear because of your steely, muscular glutials. This [...]

On Yer Bike July 30, 2008

I have decided that I have become thoroughly bored with jogging. Jogging is a tedious activity even if you are listening to some powerful techno beats en route concurrent with keeping your iPod plugs from dropping out your ears. Rather than get fat, I have taken up cycling. “Taken-up” is a misnomer as in fact [...]

Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Missing Tampax June 19, 2008

This week the phenomanon that is Feminine-Menstrual-Synchronicity has demonstrated itself in our very colourful toilet bin. Little wrappers of every imaginable colour, texture and pattern plus discretely wrapped lumps and wads fill the push-pedal vessle to the brim. Now, when in a small office with an equal ratio of men to women you like to [...]

The Shorts Dilemma. June 8, 2008

There comes a time when a girl has got to face the music and wear shorts.  I understand that shorts have been fashionable for about two years now but I don’t mean the hot-pant version of a pinstripe trouser suit or a Daisy Duke pair of denim knickers. I mean gym shorts. Vile, unflattering gym [...]

Cleanse, Tone and Confess! June 7, 2008

After many months of trying – I have decided that my latest attempt at blitzing my skin of its imperfections has failed and my faith in the British cosmetic industry has exhausted itself. Microdermabrasion and glycolic acid peels are wonderful for a day or two after treatment however the effects are superficial and I cannot [...]

Candid Candles May 19, 2008

I am not a religious person by any stretch of the imagination. I happily jump on the bandwagon along with fair-weather Jews, Hindus and Muslims alike at Christmas just as I embrace the extra holidays that the country’s assigned religions give us in the long and gloomy months however I would never consider myself to be [...]

A Cock and Hen Debate April 27, 2008

There are some things that men and women will only talk about when in same-sex company (or company they consider as good as same-sex). This wild and mysterious phenomenon is a fantastic way of ascertaining generally male and female characteristics. For example; when you have a number of men in a room who have receded [...]