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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A Vaseline lens daydream July 17, 2008

Maybe its in turning twenty-two, maybe its because the first of my classmates have started to get hitched this summer (and I mean properly hitched with a Daimler and a Beatles tribute band and everything) that I have started to seriously obsess about marriage. Although we have our bad patches, A is a pretty special [...]

Selotaped together relationship. May 29, 2008

The “line” separating a human being between child and adulthood varies between the sexes. For women it is a hairline division which girls step effortlessly over and if they need some parental dependance then all they need to do is trot back to the other side. The male line is more of a 10ft stucco [...]

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 [...]

Anticipation April 22, 2008

Much like the morphing of the pallet, forcing down a gulp of bitter wine at fifteen compared to luxuriating in the velvet slosh it evolves into in adulthood, the way anticipation manifests itself can be paralleled in some ways. When I was a little girl (and I was never that little, as my doctor told [...]