I entered a writing contest, but alas didn’t win this time. Here’s what I said: In my travels about London I’ve noticed a return to Wodehousian sensibilities in gentlemen’s attire of which I am very much in favour. Do we not pine for that imagined past when all that stood between us and happiness was … Continue reading
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Independence Day in London
I don’t know how many of you have ever celebrated your nation’s independence day in the capital city of the nation from which your own nation emancipated itself (stick with it, it makes sense!) but it definitely feels a bit funny. This isn’t the first 4th of July I’ve spent in England, but for some … Continue reading
Entmoot
Okay, it wasn’t really Entmoot. But that’s what I kept thinking in my head every time I heard the term Ward Mote, which is what I actually went to on Monday afternoon. Entmoot, as I am sure you know, is the fictional meeting of tree-like creatures called Ents in Tolkein’s famous fantasy series Lord of … Continue reading
I Carried a Watermelon. (How Often Have You Wanted to Say That?)
It’s been unseasonably hot in London the past couple of days. The kind of hot where you stick to things. The kind of hot where the sun looks like a burning laser Sauron eye that you just can’t escape no matter where you hide. The kind of hot that I usually only feel in Florida, … Continue reading
Spinning their wheels or driving change?
This is an excerpt from a blog I wrote for the Independent. Click the link to read the rest: o The women of Saudi Arabia are again challenging the ban that prevents them from obtaining driver’s license. Over the weekend approximately 50 women around the Gulf nation took to the wheel, some making videos of … Continue reading
Umbrella-Based London Activities
I left without my boots. I thought, “the zoo is paved! Surely mud will not be a factor.” Oh how wrong I was. It was Friday night. I’d gone for a Zoo Late Nights event with some friends. We expected that, with the pouring down rain, we would be the only ones there. But no! … Continue reading
Career Opportunities
As you may know, Skirt!istas, I’m assiduously job hunting away here in London. Many different paths are making themselves known to me, some odder than others. For instance, given my prediliction for Wodehousian hyperbole worked into structured, cascading sentences, a friend and fellow Wodehouse acolyte has recommended a foray into writing parody romance novels along … Continue reading
The River Walk
I don’t know if you’ve ever found yourself walking along a sleepy river through the outskirts of London on a Saturday afternoon, but I can highly recommend it. I was in Victoria Park. I needed to be up in the wilds of Clapton. I consulted the map. A blue ribbon of water stretched from where … Continue reading
Dedicated followers of fashion in Dubai
This is an excerpt from a blog I wrote for the Independent. Click the link to read the rest: o For women in the Arab world, cross-dressing can be a way of accessing masculine power and privilege. In September 2010 a widely circulated New York Times article covered the practice, believed to be fairly common … Continue reading
Want a Tip for Taking Off Ten Years? How About a Massive Pimple?
Actually it’s a series of pimples, one between my eyes, a couple lurking right under my bottom lip, and one leviathan looming right next to my nose. I looked in the mirror this morning and that thing practically winked at me. It was so startling it took me straight back to being fourteen again, and … Continue reading
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