Holidays
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The Six O’Clock News: a Valentine’s News Round-Up!
Happy Valentine’s Day, unless you’re ill and alone and watching TV this fine Friday evening. Ugh, Valentine’s. According to The Guardian, in some cultures Valentine’s is becoming synonymous with “my female partner will have sex with me whether she wants to or not” and, despite the small sample size of Cambodian participants, it’s not a… Continue reading
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The Six O’Clock News: You Really Can Escape the Winter Blues!
It’s cold. It’s dark. School is very much back and no one can quite believe that it’s only been three weeks since the day after Boxing Day. We all sort of want a summer holiday, but we cannot take one… Students Edward Bunyan, Indira Gainiyeva, Who Ran Away To Caribbean From Stonyhurst College ‘Found’ Or… Continue reading
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Indifferent Ignorance Awards 2013
They aren’t in June 2014! Book of the Year This one was tough… A Thousand Splendid Suns, We Need to Talk About Kevin, my John’s Gospel commentary by AM Hunter… No really, you should compare Hunter to some of the others. Little tip, scholars: when it comes to sentences, less is almost always more. That… Continue reading
(All Hail) Creation, Art, Books, December 2013, DISCUSS., Dogs, Fuckin’ Idiots, Government and Politics, Holidays, Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, Lists, Magazines, Pure Insanity, THE WORLD *head in hands*, Zakynthos‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’, ‘House of Hades’, ‘How I Learned To Stop Giving A Shit And Love Mindless Self Indulgence’, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’, ‘We Need to Talk about Kevin’, 2013, Andy the Lemon, arseholery, Burdge, Damien Lewis, doody head, Gerard Way, Hay Festival, Helen McCory, Homophobic Dick Award, Indifferent Ignorance, Indifferent Ignorance awards, Judith Kerr, Matt Forney, Michael Morpurgo, Mindless Self Indulgence, Minuiko, Nico di Angelo, Rick Riordan, Steve Righ, Tumblr, Viria -
Tag Your Posts When You’re Fully Awake.
So my Pilates class is from eight until nine on Thursday and I usually trot home and go to bed because it’s so relaxing all my bones and joints curl up like small creatures hibernating, but today we had pie and lattes for Christmas, so I will probably fall asleep when it’s time to wake up. You… Continue reading
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