A blog for the blue days
A revival
I’ve recently returned to this blog to make myself write and publish more poetry! Here is a poem I wrote recently: Astral Breakdown I cut off all my hair to feel something. To no one’s surprise, it didn’t work. Instead I saw myself unknown holding a now-dead pain, left limp and loose, scattered little needles…
New Music to get you through Lockdown
Music can cure all ills but for some reason, I’ve been craving a lot of the old classic jams of my teens. Cue Black Eyed Peas and One Direction. I’m usually a music lover and over the past year, I’ve felt that slowly drain from my soul (thanks Oxford for having a shit music scene).…
Writing in a time of Corona
During the quarantine, I have been reluctant to pick up the pen/open my laptop and begin to do the thing I told myself I would: write. For reasons that are obvious, the world is going through a global hurt – some self-inflicted and some not. At first, we were firefighting a deadly virus, the ‘rona,…
Baby (book) Day
It’s been a while since I’ve read a lot of children’s books; I tend to go for nostalgia and reread books, His Dark Materials being a favourite series. As a children’s editor, in the name of market research (and just for the fun) I decided to read a couple of popular books and see what…
My Sister the Serial Killer
This book was one from the work book club – fuelled by the buzz surrounding it at the time I was excited to read Braithwaite’s dark novel. For a book that offers the proposition of a manic killer, the deaths in this book are actually quite minimal. The title is correct about one thing, Korede’s…
I HAD THE BLUES 