There are degrees of uncomfortable conversation where your host might sometime raise the subject of the flat earthers society. Dinner parties where one previously unassuming character pipes up about the divinity, or veganism or even worse, homeopathy. Or there is the awkward racist who tries to pretend they aren’t racist. The unapologetic bigot is, in […]
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Bowie – Advisory Content
It’s now exactly a week since the news of David Bowie’s death reached the world, and with seven days to reflect on his life and his work, the event seems to have grown in spirit and grandeur. Artists of all descriptions and practices reach their audiences and fanbases through their work. Bowie seems to have reached […]
Have a Good Time
The phrases ‘enjoy yourself’ and ‘have a good time’ have always baffled and, on some occasions, actually annoyed me. ‘Having a good time’ is not the same concept for everyone. Not everyone goes out to enjoy themselves in the same way, and we might well be relieved at that fact. There is an assumption, I […]
People Knowing My Personal Business
I was just drifting off the other night, listening to the dulcet tones of Mylene Klass and her inane chatter on ClassicFM, when I had a sudden realisation. She was in that awful band. Then I had another realisation, ‘I can be googled’. Now we can all be googled, social media, gmail accounts and profiles, […]
Only the River
Only the River Sweet Thames run softly, for I sing not loud or long… I am not a scenery girl, or landscapes or country. More an ‘in the head girl’ – poems and stuff, as with the Spenser quotation above. It was while at Twickenham County, the girls’ grammar school (the building in Clifden […]