It's funny how your world can shrink to four, tall, woodchip-papered rooms. As the guidelines became more and more restrictive, every plan to make the best of one set of guidelines became void as the next lot came in. In a way, it was a blessing to be in full lock-down. It forced me to …
I was going to write about some cool book I'd picked up or film I'd watched, but I haven't done any of that because I'm working my way through the English Literature 2 reading list. So I'm going to tell you about that instead. Studying English literature is great. But it's not necessarily great for …
If I have a ‘happy place’, Grand Designs is it. It is just mildly thrilling enough not to be filler TV, but is still soothing. The Deep Heat of programmes. I’ve never had a particular interest in architecture, but I reckon neither has the average watcher. I’m always surprised by the warm, fuzzy feelings I …
Tove Jansson’s Moomin stories have seen a renaissance in the last few years, their illustrations adorning bags and cards that offer an easy nostalgia hit. It’s easy to be sceptical of something that has come back largely in the form of merchandise. But when I started reading Tales from Moominvalley one night when I couldn’t …
This is for all the men who choose the ‘apolitical’ option on their Bumble bios. I don’t think apoliticism exists. That is, if you take it literally as a complete lack of political values and interest in politics. But the reasons behind the decision to say that you are ‘apolitical’ do exist, and I don’t …
I am new to gaming. I’ve somehow always managed to surround myself with gamers at school, home and uni, despite being possibly the most frustrating person to play games with. Somehow the skill and enthusiasm never transferred by osmosis, but I was left with a load of very specific lingo. My mates sunk hours and …
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A few weeks ago, I left my university room, with its perfectly curated contents, and went home to my old room, stuffed with all the things I chose not to bring to uni. I’d spent three and a half months not missing all the crap that had accumulated since I was a kid, so it …
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Steaming means pissed. Also, see: twatted, and shitfaced. Mobbed is busy, and no is not. There’s a place in Scotland called Uphall Station, which isn’t a station. The station in Uphall station is called Uphall. Next to it is a town called Uphall. Going through it is Pumpherston Road. In Pumpherston, there’s an Uphall Station …
Our epic family holiday has just ended. And if you don’t write about it, it didn’t really happen, right? I haven’t got a record of every day, and I’m missing out most of the crap bits. Nothing went wrong enough to provide comedic content, anyway. What we did is followed the Alps through from the …
So, I said I was going to stay here for three weeks. And they raised their eyebrows. Sure enough, I’ve doubled that, and it’s looking like it’s going to be tripled. For some reason, it feels harder write about my day-to-day life here than about the bigger refugee-crisis picture. So I’ve taken photos to show …
Getting Lost 