The prison couldn’t look more like a prison. It looks like a picture of a prison drawn by someone who’d only seen Porridge and maybe some Victorian paintings of correctional institutions. It makes it very difficult to forget where you are. One thing the staff love to do at the prison is show you their […]
Five Minute Dinner – Kinda Carbonara
This is what I like to think of as Friday night food. You know when you don’t have any plans, and it’s been a long week, and you’re coming home to your partner, and you said you’d get dinner? And you stand in the supermarket and gaze at some leeks and think “I can’t be bothered with […]
If You Care About Kanye, You Are Doing Festivals Wrong
All of this fuss about Kanye playing at Glastonbury is ridiculous. The thing is, we’re talking about a headline slot, here. That’s at about 9-10pm. Do you really expect to have your shit so firmly together at 9-10pm, on Saturday night, at Glastonbury, that you will be disappointed by a bit of Kanye? I don’t […]
10 Thoughts You Have 10 Minutes Before Going On Stage
Wait. Do I need a wee? No, shhhh, it’s just nerves, you’re fine. This is terrifying. What if I forget all my words? What if I don’t forget my words, but it turns out all my words are terrible and everyone hates it and they hate me and I will have failed forever? This is […]
Restaurant Review – Gino’s, Oxford
I went to Gino’s with my Mum, Dad and Paul to celebrate my birthday a couple of weeks ago. It’s a cheerful Italian place in the centre of Oxford, just by the bus stop, and when we made reservations, our email was answered by your ACTUAL Gino – major starting points. I think this is also […]
Magic Milk and Cookies
And by magic, I mean with booze in it. As it’s Sunday, and STILL not spring, despite me checking every fifteen seconds since January the 15th, I thought I’d blog about my EXTREMELY COSY AFTERNOON making biscuits with some new homeware and drinking. Oh, and also do a mini homeware haul. Check out my selection […]
Maybe Perfect Healthy Pizza
Cauliflower crust pizza! Ruler of Pintrest, holy grail of paleo, deeply unlikely idea. WHY AM I DOING THIS? Pizza is hands down my favourite food. I bloody LOVE it, especially really dirty, Dominoes-style takeaway pizza, with double cheese and a pot of saturated fat on the side to dip my crusts in. Yeeeeeeeeah! But as […]
How to Meditate
A lot of people want to start meditating but aren’t sure how or where to begin, or what meditating really is. This confusion is because it’s a difficult question. Lots of people mean lots of different things by meditation. What I mean is sitting very still and emptying my mind. I do this because it […]