COVID DIARY: DAY 5

I dreamt I had long glossy hair. Waking up to see my bald head in the mirror was slightly traumatic. I saw one of my younger brothers today. I asked him to drop a parcel off to the post office and pick up a few essential groceries from Tesco. I left the parcel in the […]

COVID DIARY: DAY 4

Our Prime Minister has just announced some additional measures. Apparently people haven’t been taking self-isolation seriously. This has forced the PMs hand. There are some really selfish people out there, but at the same time there are many good people too. One of those good people lives in my community and has been putting himself […]

COVID DIARY: DAY 3

I slept in today. I woke up at 10am and vaccumed the house whilst the missus saw to breakfast. Homemade pancakes served with chopped strawberries and a little caramel sauce. After, we watched an episode of Masterchef with cups of coffee in our hands. In the afternoon I used Google Hangouts to teach an A-level […]

COVID DIARY: DAY 2

The inevitable happened today. After a whole day of self-isolating, my wife decided it was time to spring clean the living room. 😟 Breakfast was toast with scrambled eggs. I mixed in some spring onions, half a green pepper and a whole chilli (seeds included). A video call with my big brother and both of […]

COVID DIARY: DAY 1

Education providers have been closed down today for the foreseeable future. I’m a lecturer and my wife works in a primary school, so effectively we are home now for at least next 3 months. Furthermore, three of us in my household are high risk for the virus, meaning we have underlying issues that could become […]

The Booker Prize Travesty

So, this happened. The Booker prize was shared between two authors despite rules being in place to prevent that from happening. One writer happens to be a black woman and advocate of diverse voices in writing and the other is a middle class, white female and Bestselling author (Margaret Atwood). You don’t have to be […]

‘The Clockwork Man’

The Washington Post recently published this article on an English science fiction novel from the early days of science fiction emerging as a genre. The article poses the question, was this the first cyborg? Some may say that the Hebrew golums were the first, however, they are powered by black magic and therefore fall into […]

Was Hermione Black? White Bias in Literature

My own take on this is that Hermione was written white, originally cast white based on Rowling’s advice to the casting director. The casting of a black actress in the The Cursed Child may either be down to open mindedness or may be put down to Rowling’s obsession of going back and changing facts retrospectively […]

Carnival Row

The new fantasy/steam Amazon Prime show has just dropped, starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne. It is set in a post World War 1 styled fantasy world, where the Fae have gotten caught between two warring human empires; the Pact and the Burgues. The Fae sided with the Burgues, but were betrayed when the Burgues […]