Visiting Edinburgh for the Christmas markets has become quite the tradition for my boyfriend and I (can you call something a tradition when you’ve only done it twice?) yet, we like to make each visit to anywhere as least repetitive as we can. After a, for the lack of a better word, crappy couple of …
Continue reading Edinburgh: a hilly city just so you can burn off all the good food?
As time rapidly builds up to Christmas it has begun to dawn on me, and the majority of social media, that we are also approaching the end of the decade. With the hustle and bustle of this year my mind has been pushing me to spend some time reflecting and appreciating my own maturing and …
Whilst sat tackling (or attempting to) my latest University essay deadline I clicked play on a pre-made playlist of "mellow" songs I hoped would lead to minimal distraction. I put on my headphones to shut out the world, or more importantly the sound of my boyfriend's Xbox, and became immersed in each calming melody that …
Continue reading The Most Emotional Song I’ve Heard All Year
If you are remotely interested in best selling fiction and haven't come across author Matt Haig then you're doing something wrong. As much as this is a raving review of his bestseller, How to Stop Time, this is also a fanatical exclamation of my appreciation of the real, worldly and raw depiction of his life he lets …
I remember being in college; A-levels ruining most days of the week, the quick flip between loving a subject, to wishing it had never existed and the immense pressure of deciding what you want to do with your life. I couldn’t wait to get out of small town Middlesbrough, start a new life in a …
Continue reading Staying at home for University does not make you a failure!
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