Ever sentimental and inspired by punkacademic’s brilliant piece, ‘No one here will save you’, I thought I’d write some bittersweet thoughts about moving away from the university bubble for the first time in six years and going remote. I’ve neglected this blog since becoming a freelance writer professionally, but I wanted to take the time…

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything for this blog, so let’s catch up quickly. I’ve been living in Durham for almost two months, and it’s safe to say, I’ve fallen madly in love. Life here feels slow and gentle; misty morning walks along the riverside and generally marvelling at how pretty the city…

As of this week I have completed my undergraduate degree in English Literature, submitted my dissertation, and said goodbye to this chapter of my life forever. It’s an anticlimactic end to say the least, although I imagine that I’ll be back to bid goodbye to the city of Brighton properly. Up until February of this…

I arrived in Paris in an early January afternoon; the city was bathed in a golden afternoon sun. I predominantly explored Paris on foot, and I suppose that I was, as Virginia Woolf would have suggested, “street haunting”. After rereading Jean Rhys’s magnificent Good Morning, Midnight in October, there grew a kind of urge in…

Although we arrived in the Icelandic suburb of Mosfellsbær late at night, our first morning in Reykjavík greeted us with a cloudless blue sky and an impressive view of nearby mountains. Helen, my oldest friend and I, were quite taken aback at just how magical Iceland was. Thus began our three day adventure. For those…

The Corona pandemic has been a time of great introspection for me. It’s a complex, uncertain, and completely alien situation that is unlike anything I, or anyone I know, has experienced before. The ambiguity of the future is certainly unnerving – given that I’m currently unemployed and have unexpectedly finished uni far earlier than I…