September 2015 – Francesca's Thoughts

30/09/2015

Oh iPhone, You Have My Heart (and my attention span)

Yesterday I cleaned and rearranged my entire desk, so now the multiple Post Its and to-do lists are all zen, just like my mind will be when I start work every day. Coincidentally, today I activated my new phone (or half activated it, since apparently it takes ages for my provider to realise it’s sending cat emojis Continue reading

DISCUSS., Internet, September 2015, Social Media

fuckin’ Instagram man, Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, Internet addiction, mobile phones, tech detox

22/09/2015

Join Another Club, Bridge (pun intended)

This morning they broadcast one of those news stories that made me unsure whether to laugh or to fling my porridge at the stereo like a belligerent 95-year-old. It wasn’t about the refugee crisis or Donald Trump, which was a nice change – it was about a debate that’s raging about whether Bridge should be considered Continue reading

September 2015, THE WORLD *head in hands*

BBC News, bridge, Indifferent Ignorance, Olympics, sport, Sport England, Thought England

01/09/2015

Review: ‘Holy Cow’, David Duchovny

Polite notice: I don’t discuss anything in these reviews that isn’t available from blurbs and articles, and they’re more like recommendations than reviews in the same way that Tony Blair is better known as a contributor in the Iraq war than he is as an expert on international relations. If I were at all spiritual, Continue reading

Books, Patreon Reviews, September 2015

‘Holy Cow’, book review, books, children’s animal adventure film, David Duchovny, Patreon