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. [...]

Ode to a Heel Fetishist December 11, 2008

I read a fairly odd article online today about at heel fetishist who attacked women as they walked along and mugged them for their shoes. He would leave the woman traumatised and utterly bewildered (doubtless preparing herself for the worst kind of assault imaginable on a woman only to be baffled by the draught on [...]

Oral December 5, 2008

Christmas approaches and after a turbulant two months life has finally receded back to some kind of improved normality to that from living at home… journalism MA aside, I have got my relationship back. The last year, living 200 miles apart and seeing eachother once a fortnight or even once in three weeks, we are [...]

Teeline Shorthand, a baptism of fire. October 1, 2008

Day one of training to be a journalist has just come to a close… or rather it came to a close nearer 4:00pm today and I have been both worrying away at my exercise book plus stuffing my face in response to it. Week one is solely Shorthand based – shorthand in this particular industry [...]

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 [...]

The House MD Drinking Game September 28, 2008

True to form, a new term as a student has encouraged manys an alcoholic headache and to help others such as myself in a new place with lots of new people and an unhealthy obsession with Hugh Laurie’s portrayal of the cynical doctor Gregory House – I give you – The House MD Drinking Game. [...]

Masters, Manchester, McNae’s Essentail Law September 28, 2008

The blog has taken somewhat of a backseat during the past month or so due to the hellishness of leaving my job and delicious salary in favour of upping sticks to Manchester where I am currently studying for my MA in Journalism and my continued research in the bottoms of various wine glasses. Thusfar, neither [...]

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. [...]

My Curry Autobiography August 1, 2008

There’s nothing more satisfying than successfully blackmailing your boyfriend to drive 200 miles to see you with only the two syllibal word, bhuna, to coax out those car keys. Luckily, A and myself have a mutual penchant for Indian food from only a select number of restaurants countywide that do our favourite dishes well enough. [...]

A Cheeky Hormone Imbalance – Mustn’t Complain July 31, 2008

Feeling “hormonal”, a term usually considered synonymous with neurotic and unbalanced, this week has manifested itself in me in a different (and much more enjoyable) form. As previous blogs may have ascertained, I am in a long distance relationship with a man who I have been with for 3 and a half years. Long distance [...]