Latin. It’s a rare thing that someone understands it these days. That old, ‘useless’ language. “No one even speaks it anymore.” Well, I’ve learnt that Latin is actually of utmost importance and I think it is about time this fantastic language finally gets some more appreciation. If it wasn’t for this language, English wouldn’t exist. … Continue reading
Pride of Britain Awards: Inspirational
It never fails to bring a tear to my eye. The Pride of Britain Awards. The sheer amount of goodness happening in the small isle of Britain is often under-celebrated and it’s a breath of fresh air to be inundated with happy stories and heroes. Obviously, everyone deserves equal respect and attention, but there were … Continue reading
The Great X Factor Controversy
Whilst watching The X Factor on Saturday I was astounded upon hearing Gary Barlow’s rude words to Tulisa Contostavlos, another judge on the show. Having received criticism from Tulisa, Barlow proceeded to tell her her: I don’t know what offended me more- what you said or your fag-ash breath. This is arguably the rudest thing ever said … Continue reading
Status’ VS Statuses
OK, so this is something which reeaally annoys me! I will never understand why so many ‘intelligent’ people make such juvenile mistakes with punctuation. On Twitter, it seems there is always someone complaining about someone else’s Facebook statuses. YET THEY ALWAYS SPELL IT WRONG. Are we talking about anything belonging to a status? No. So … Continue reading
Today is just a short post to say I’m sorry I’ve not got much time to write anything properly. Do not fret though, I’ll be back soon (i.e. tomorrow)! Continue reading
Skyfall (a.k.a. My first Bond film)
So today I finally watched my first ever Bond film (I know, I’m a bit late…) and I must say I was impressed! I spent 3 hours in the cinema and it was definitely time well spent, although I’m still not convinced that 30 minutes of adverts at the beginning is absolutely necessary… But anyway, … Continue reading
… and so WordPress wishes me ‘Happy Blogging!’ (& poetry…)
WHY THANK YOU WORDPRESS! How nice it is to join you! Since this is my first blog post, I may as well post what’s on my mind right now… In fact, it’s a poem… Strange, huh? I’m currently studying Christina Rossetti and I think I’m IN LOVE with her poetry! It’s just so readable. There … Continue reading