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• Notes from the Classroom

  

  Today I hit the ten month mark of my teaching career, and I officially qualified as a teacher.If someone had sat me down in September and told me about the... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Summer in the Country

  

  I am doing my best to stop dreaming of foreign climes and instead appreciate the beautiful surroundings I am lucky enough to live amidst. Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• All Roads Lead to France by Matthew Hollis

  

  The fact that it took me about two months to read this book should be no marker of its quality. I tire of biographies quickly, which is why I rarely read them; ... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• London Vs New York

  

  I have been feeling incredibly homesick for New York lately. I ache for its streets. I want to sit out on a terrace and eat dinner in the balmy warmth of a May... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• 'The Great Gatsby' Movie Review

  

  Baz Luhrman brings allure of 'Roaring 20s' to life Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Frost at Morning by Richmal Crompton

  

  I’ve had this sitting on my shelves for years; I bought it in a second hand bookshop in Alton when I went to Jane Austen’s house a few summers ago. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ravilious Country

  

  My trip to the Sussex Downs during the Easter holidays already feels impossibly distant, but the memories of the quietly beautiful landscape have remained... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White

  

  I watched a new BBC version of The Lady Vanishes a few weeks ago, and was enthralled by the concept of a woman having to prove the existence of a supposedly... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• American Classics

  

  I started an American Literature Book Club at school a few months ago. We’ve read an eclectic mix, from Truman Capote short stories to Little Women, with detour... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Monk’s House and Berwick

  

  On our second day in Sussex, we woke up to even more miserable weather than the day before, but we were certainly not going to be stopped from exploring! Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

  

  I was running out of the door to catch a train last week when I realised I didn’t have a book to read. I blindly grabbed at my shelves – my current long term... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Charleston

  

  It is a truth universally acknowledged that you never get around to visiting places on your own doorstep. I have been meaning to go to Charleston, home of... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton

  

  Image from hereThis is, in its simplest form, an autobiography of Canadian artist and writer Leanne Shapton told through the lens of her teenage years spent as ... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Answers on a Postcard

  

  Thank you very much for being patient while I sort my life out. Every year about this time I  like to sit back and have a little reassessment of my priorities. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Taking a Break

  

  I have been thinking a lot over the past few days about this blog. I started blogging nearly four years ago. Over those four years, my life has changed... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Revisiting My Childhood

  

  When I spotted a battered old hardback of First Term at Malory Towers in a book shop last week, I knew I had to buy it. I was obsessed with the Malory Towers... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Happy Birthday, Vita!

  

  Today I am featured on the OxfordWords blog, which is now very well managed by our own lovely Simon. I wrote about Vita Sackville-West, as it is her birthday... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Bits and Bobs

  

  Work has been overtaking my life lately. Time for reading? Yeah right. Time for seeing friends? I don’t think so! Time for going on cultural excursions? I... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Notes from the Classroom

  

  I’m now at the six month mark, and a short placement at another neighbouring – but very different – school has very much shaken my confidence. Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary by Ruby Ferguson

  

  Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary opens with tourists coming to look around the great house of Keepsfield, for let due to the financial problems of the exiled Lady Rose... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE