You will sometimes find me writing elsewhere, and this is a post I originally wrote for Shiny Shiny - basically all my favourite films in one list... so if you're looking to unleash your inner nomad, I recommend you sit yourself down on a big comfy sofa and watch them all. There’s something undeniably refreshing … Continue reading 9 incredible films about travelling
Being born a woman is an awful tragedy... Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery... I want … Continue reading ‘Wild’ and the perils of travelling as a solo woman
Tweet Exactly two years ago I was sitting up in this very same bed, restless, listening to the unique silence of the night before Christmas around me. I was intensely frustrated at being unable to sleep, for no one really wants to dwell alone in the dark pre-Christmas dawn. I knew that my younger sister would … Continue reading Déjà vu
Tweet The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is one of the most life-changing, life-affirming books I have ever had the pleasure to read. I recently rediscovered my love for it, via an intensity of feeling in which I recalled some of the potent wisdom which is written among its pages. I first whipped through The Alchemist when I … Continue reading A book I once read in Croatia
Tweet Something strange happened today. I was checking my Facebook, when a friend suggestion came up in the top right-hand corner. Usually it's people I've barely heard of or someone totally inappropriate like my mum, so I was surprised to see the name of somebody I knew - or used to know - on a … Continue reading Unreasonable?
Tweet The transition from study to work has been just as everyone said it would be. Already I can feel myself osmosing through the bubble; I've distanced myself from all things student, and have started using phrases like "nine to five", "PR event" and "I can't, I've got work tomorrow". It's partly summer. It's partly … Continue reading Contemplation
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up … Continue reading “To love at all…
no cash on the highway 