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  Being an outsider is never an easy thing. It can be wondrous, freeing, the granter of wildly unexpected perspectives and a sense of being uniquely set apart; but it can also leave you feeling lonely, socially crucified and ill-adept and wondering if there is a place for you in Continue Reading

  If you were to take a look at my bookshelves, you would soon come to realise that I own an enormous number of books., I mean, a LOT. Many of them are read, kept because of some emotional attachment or love of the book itself, but many, much to Continue Reading

  Humanity is nothing if not predictable. Faced with a civilisation-ending event, we tend to either band together for greater strength and survivability, embark on a means-justify-the-ends campaign of selfish aggrandisement or hide ourselves, willing the world to abandon us to our self-sufficient bolt-hole. It’s this final option that has Continue Reading

  Love, it is generally thought, can pretty much change everything. Social status, geographical separation, adversarial friends or family, even death cannot compete with love’s ability to sweep all before it in a flood of hope, possibility and rose-petaled wonder. But in Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, soon to be Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT there’s no such thing as too low and high art. There are creations that either speak to people or don’t. Part of what makes the strips so timeless was that you don’t need to understand the pop culture or political context of the late eighties and early nineties Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Cats feel safe in enclosed spaces. This explains why cardboard boxes are immensely popular. They feel safe having something enclosed and particularly something with sides. All cats need to be able to hide, not just the scaredy cats or not just when there’s fireworks outside. Even confident cats Continue Reading

  Way back when I was a child in a mythical land called the 1970s – Yes it really did exist; Farrah Fawcett’s hair is proof enough of that – there was a cheesy sci-fi show called Battlestar Galactica that nevertheless held me utterly enraptured. There was something about humanity’s Continue Reading

  Who is the greatest fantasy storyteller of them all hmmm? That is the great conundrum of the latest instalment from Epic Rap Battles of History which pits the revered writer of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien against HBO’s wunderkind darling George R. R. Continue Reading

  If you watch The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead or a host of other zombie-ish apocalyptic shows you will likely notice one thing (among many others of course such as yes zombies for a start). A dearth of animals. Yes there is the occasional horse (that provides a Continue Reading