"The sun is giving you energy and you are growing! Stretch your arms up, as far as they will go! Higher, taller, stronger… you're a proud sunflower!" You'd think I wouldn't be in a hurry to revisit the "You're a sunflower!" exercise that practically every year 7 student had to do in drama class… Continue reading Shine Bright!
Category: Random
Up the Nails!
It's been fifty years since The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan was published and hundred years since suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was fatally injured during her protest for the cause of Votes for Women. Feminism rages on – in different guises and often clouded with irrelevant arguments about semantics by my shallow reckoning (dipping in and… Continue reading Up the Nails!
Ambling Around
When I first moved to N7 five years ago, I was a reluctant N7 naysayer. Firstly we hadn't found the DREAMY Victorian/Georgian garden flat, which I initially had in mind and was cursing the cold box-esque industrial space, which we ended up taking just to prevent me and Steve from having another moving-induced squabble. Secondly,… Continue reading Ambling Around
Hermès Silk Road
I blame the heightened sense of emotions on airplanes, but when I watched Hearts and Crafts: The People that Make Hermès, directed by Frédéric Laffont and Isabelle Dupuy-Chavanat, on an Air France flight last year, I was positively moved to tears. Ok, that was perhaps a pathetic step too far, but it was such a great short… Continue reading Hermès Silk Road