Today I said a phrase I never imagined would have to leave my mouth, “I think this has been my favourite day of lockdown so far.” Very quickly life has took a George Orwell-esque turn for the worst and the ‘new normal’ seems oh so dreary. Yet today, a freedom I haven’t felt in weeks …
How I’m ‘Coping’ with Coronavirus Quarantine
I keep squinting my eyes together as if to try and force them shut. Sleep won’t come to me. All day my eyes have felt heavy, as though the weight of the situation we are in was sat right on my lids, pushing them down; yet now, here I lie wide awake thinking fondly of …
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Self isolation and the incessant search for the right artistic outlet
For years humanities and the arts have been underfunded, under appreciated and kicked to the bottom pile on the priorities lists. Writers have had to waste their talent on justifying why their words are worth our reading, artists have had to provide artwork that can is useful to others for it to be worth something …
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Insightful & captivating: A review of Jennifer Rees’ Psychology of a Serial Killer lecture
Disclaimer: there are spoilers! If you are anything like me or my boyfriend learning there’s a new, weird Netflix show about an obscure, crazy serial killer is like Christmas coming early. After following an insistent recommendation from a friend, we booked tickets to Jennifer Rees’ lecture on The Psychology of Serial Killer and wow wow …
Writing snippet #1: Practice, creativity and a big chunk of vulnerability
I've decided to try and fit small bits of creative writing into my blog posts. I started my blog as a way to keep writing as a hobby aside of having to do it at University. Well, this week I got AN ACTUAL WRITING JOB (yes, really) so I want to use this space even …
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Happy Birthday Mam x
I'm taking a time out from writing raving reviews about books and films to write down my most special review to date. I want to tell you everything I think that needs to be put in black and white about how INCREDIBLE my Mam is - as a soppy birthday treat for her. I don't …
1917: An enthralling piece of cinema
1917 is Britain’s WW1 answer to Saving Private Ryan; replacing the guts and gore with intensity and emotion. When deciding how I feel about a war film it’s never about enjoyment, usually it’s about my level anxiety or the speed of my heart rate as I walk out the cinema doors. If I’m measuring this …
Life doesn’t have an Instagram filter
For only the second week into the year it's quite honestly been a rubbish one! After the build up of the new year mantras, the hope of new beginnings and the excitement of what's yet to come, the second week of January has kicked the blues off and my god they're well undergo. It's crashed …
“Aim at the highest, and never mind the money”: My thoughts on Little Women
Watching as a female majority poured out of the cinema screen (bar Conor who I had swayed to watch through it being my date night choice), my head feels full of inspiration watching as Jo Marsh and her sisters filled my heart just as they did the first time I read Little Women. Anyone who …
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My New Year ‘Intentions’
The definition of a 'resolution' has undergone major pejoration over time; what once was a personal, positive goal set to improve yourself in the next chapter of life has now become an empty vessel of failure and disappointment. It has become the joke target we feel compelled to set ourselves because everyone else does it, …
Like An Open Book 