I’m still in Italy on holiday and having a wonderful time. We were in Rome last week and are spending this week in Florence. We saw Michelangelo’s David today, which was simply beautiful. We have a few more days here and are planning a night away in Pisa as well. On Sunday we fly back [...]

Television is not something that really features in my life but sometimes I try to catch up on particular shows on DVD. For some time I’ve been meaning to watch the revival of Doctor Who. Last night I did and I have to say it was quite a disappointment. The first episode with the shop [...]

Book publisher Random House has pledged to increase the amount of recycled paper in its books from 3 per cent now to 30 per cent by 2010, while coffee table books are to contain 10 per cent recycled material. At the moment they have only announced plans to do this for their US books [...]

I went to the TKTS ticket booth for half-price theatre tickets on Saturday and ended up buying tickets to Blackbird for myself, my boyfriend and our friend from New York. The play by David Harrower debuted at the Edinburgh Festival last year and this was the final night of its run at the Albery Theatre [...]

Over seventy per cent of the authors on my list are male and I think this is a flaw in the list. I don’t believe in quotas and I am not going to deliberately make the list fifty-fifty as the books have to make it on their own merits. However, there is the counter argument [...]

There’s been plenty going on. I’m still pretty busy with work, clearing deadlines and I have a few shifts this week as well. We have friends from New York in town so spending time with them has been a priority. Plus we leave for Italy on Sunday so we’ve got to book accommodation and so [...]

I’m the procrastination queen, which I guess is a bit of an occupational hazard when you’re a freelance journalist but a fatal one if you’re trying to keep food on the table and a roof over your head.
I really need to finish writing my piece on Uganda while it’s fresh in my mind and so [...]

In less than two weeks time, my boyfriend and I are off to Italy for a holiday. I can hardly wait! It will be our first time in Italy but if it’s as good as everyone says it is, it surely won’t be our last.
We have two weeks (slightly less when you exclude the [...]

It fined up Sunday afternoon so I did the first half of the street skate, up past Regent’s Park to Maida Vale (route and photos). The first part seemed really cruisy but it was much harder once we hit a long straight stretch past Regent’s Park and had to hightail it so we didn’t block [...]

We saw The Squid and the Whale at the cinema last night. It’s an indie movie about the break-up of a family in 1986 Brooklyn and its effect on Walt, who’s sixteeen, and Frank, who’s twelve. The father, Bernard, is a pompous English professor and writer past his prime and the mother, Joan, is an [...]