Running with the Valentine theme

I’ve been talking to students today about love.  It’s Saint Valentine’s Day, so of course I have.  It’s not a big deal here, at all, and honestly, it’s rather nice to not be made to feel sub-human by the marketing men back at home, who have been ramming it down the throats of the populous since the day […]

PANKnado

(a bit like Sharknado, but not at all) Seriously, I feel like I was picked up by a tornado on Friday night in Wichita, and unceremoniously dumped somewhere in the middle of Kansas in the early hours of Monday morning.  Without my Ruby Slippers,and maybe a stray cow, a couple of chickens and a mangled tractor. […]

Things I learnt in Paris, February 2014

It is more beautiful than any memory I have from the first time. Multiply that x 100 by night.  Utterly breathtaking. Multiply that x 100.50 by night from the back of the scooter of an extremely handsome and charming French man. Pastries are made the way they are supposed to be made, delicious and full […]