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 [...]

Numb. August 1, 2008

Shortly after writing my last blog I learned that my boss’s husband who my family have known for 9 years has died in a motor cycle accident. I am devastated for my boss who I feel is like an aunty to me and who has been for me whenever I have had problems both in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Plans, Preparations, Pyramids February 2, 2008

Ever get that loose end sort of feeling? Well today… got up (too hot after having my heater on full all night), had a shower, had some food, dressed, chatted to Mum, blitzed my wardrobe and cupboards in my tiny Ikea bedroom for all that is now redundant and am now a bit baffled as [...]

Sauvignon-Blanc, Salford, Spaying February 1, 2008

Friday evening with a Sauvignon-Blanc and the iTunes on shuffle is always a nice moment to savour. I have had a fairly busy week, I spent the weekend in Manchester getting hideously drunk with A’s mates and ended up basically plastered. My liver hates me so much… I don’t feel proud, I feel bloody stupid [...]