I've spoken on previous blogs before, about how my taste in music has been inherited from various different sources over the years. Quite a lot of that is thanked in part to my parents. Some of it I'm happy to admit a love for (Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles), and others I'm partly cautious to … Continue reading #BringBackEnya – why it’s time for the 2015 return of a pop enigma
Now for my first book review in a very long time! Published two years ago, 'Billy and Me' is the debut novel from actress and vlogger Giovanna Fletcher. You may wonder why it's taken me that long to get round to reading it - after all, she has had her second novel, 'You're the One … Continue reading #CrazyStupidBook: Giovanna Fletcher – ‘Billy and Me’
The biennial Red Nose Day for Comic Relief, one of my favourite charity telethons is back again for its 30th year this year, on Friday 13th March. It's long been a cause I've supported and donated to - and also in its Sport Relief guise on odd numbered years, as it has always, at its … Continue reading Red Nose Day is back!
The post pop group solo career is a tricky, some might say unforgiving mistress to navigate. For every success story - Beyoncé, Robbie or Justin selling out stadiums and shifting albums by the bucketload, there's a thousand Abz, Lisa Scott-Lees or Appletons starring in Z-list reality shows and being dropped like hot potatoes from their … Continue reading Beating again: the rebirth of Marvin Humes
Netflix. NowTV. Sky+. LoveFilm. A TiVo. Series Record. Amazon Prime. iPlayer. 4OD. On Demand. It seems that with the growth of technology in just the last two decades alone that we are being bombarded ever more with impossibly new ways - and new devices and contraptions - to do the thing our humble TVs were … Continue reading TV top trumps: is watching the box now a battle for trend supremacy?
I've fallen slowly back in love - although it has to be said, not that I ever fell out of it - with cooking again in recent months. It was always one of the best parts of my days at uni and now that I'm working again, I sort of get that joy to myself … Continue reading Recipe: Chicken, Avocado and Tomato Wraps
I have been writing and rewriting the opening gambit of this review for the last 2 hours and struggled to find adequate words to start it with. So, in the grand tradition of the lady herself, I'll try to with the king AND queen of all words: a moist plinth. Aaah, lovely. I digress. For … Continue reading #CrazyStupidDVD: Miranda – “The Finale”
Firstly, a belated happy new year to you all! I realise I have been somewhat lax with the blog lately - largely due to a somewhat trying two weeks, and this is something I am now looking to rectify as it were. In short: I'm back! For today's post, let me take you back to … Continue reading Watch with Alex: my forgotten gems of kid’s TV
Merry Christmas to you all! Hope you're all having a great time so far and are eating, drinking and sharing with loved ones aplenty. (Here come the emojis 😄 🎄 🎁 🎀 ❄ 🎅 🐧) 2014 has been a busy and exciting year for me, and usually, those who've read my Facebook for the last … Continue reading Alex’s End of Year Prizes 2014
More so in light of the controversy surrounding Russell Brand this week, we seem to have a annoyingly odd habit in this country of knocking our finest talents down when it suits us. Particularly when they so much as dare to connect with something beyond the supposed smoke and mirrors world of wealth and celebrity … Continue reading Richard Curtis: making a fully fledged bastard of a point since 1991 (or thereabouts).
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