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In Celebration Of The Everyday.
66 views. Forget-me-nots are small flowers with blue petals and long green stalks that tend to pop up on the side of pavements and in countryside meadows around April and May. I have always pondered their strange name without such they would cease to be very memorable at all. They are, for any better want…
“The Things We’ve Learned Are No Longer Enough.”
Ian Kevin Curtis: 40 Years On. By Tom Harrison. 222 views. On the 18th of this month, fans of revolutionary Salford Post-Punk outfit, Joy Division On the 18th of this month, fans of revolutionary Salford Post-Punk outfit, Joy Division (and the wider music community as a whole) mourn the loss of one of the most…
Will the Global Pandemic End Fast Fashion?
On starting a sustainable clothing business in isolation. By Cyd Ashbridge. 185 views. One click. It’s as simple as that. One click and we contribute to an industry that is responsible for 10% of the annual global carbon dioxide emissions, 14-16 hour days for exploited workers and six bathtubs worth of water that goes into…
Bowie’s Legomen and Reinventing Yourself
42 views. Seven weeks is plenty of time to reinvent yourself. With little outdoor space, you may resolve to search inside yourself for space instead. Gazing out the window and letting your imagination run wild. You may be rethinking every decision you’ve ever made and desire a fresh start. But then you start to wonder,…
Relaxing Into Yourself
A Poem by Emily Loch. 87 views. We stare Millions of bodies, nothing to do So we lie We lie All of us, together and far apart So we lie, linking hands through minds We do not touch Different beds, And yet the same story Up at the ceiling, Mind focused, but running away from…
The Weaponisation of Community Spirit
And why it can’t fight coronavirus. By Roisin Nolan. 847 views. On our daily walks, we’ll pass house after house with a rainbow in the front window, a ‘stay safe’ scrawled in chalk on the driveway, perhaps a lantern at the front door shining blue for the NHS. Every Thursday at 8pm, UK neighbourhoods are…
“You Run and You Run to Catch Up With the Sun But It’s Sinking”
Are Pink Floyd right? Is time speeding up? 96 views. Looking at the clock this morning I was shocked to find that it was already May. Where did the time go? Some may be thankful that time appears to be speeding up, but others may fear that time feels as though it is slipping away…
How to Keep Fit During Lockdown.
By Kaiya Rai. 11 views Gyms are closed, we’ve been quarantined in our houses with an allowance of one outing a day, work has considerably reduced, and with all this newfound free time (and boredom), you are starting to contemplate getting ‘fit.’ Paired with the Instagram 5k challenge, where your mates who haven’t done any…
Lockdown: Bringing Families Closer Together.
By Sophie Hamilton. 63 views It is undeniable that there is a great deal of uncertainty and stress going on in the world today. With all plans being cancelled and our usually busy lives being stripped to nothing, it is easy to feel disappointment and maybe even fear as to what will happen in the…
A Perspective on the Covid-19 Crisis in Kenya
“‘Pamoja’ means ‘together’ in Kiswahili, something we need to hold on to despite countries being more isolated than ever.” By Ffion Iona Haffenden 257 views It’s hard to believe 8 weeks ago, I had arrived home from Kenya and Coronavirus was just a word that equated to wearing a mask half-heartedly on a plane. My thoughts…
Would I Still Be With Him If We Hadn’t Been Quarantined Together?
By Anushka Joshi. 49 views My boyfriend and I met at a party in a bar this November. I am a visiting undergraduate student doing my last year at Oxford and he is a D.Phil in cyber security. This means that on paper he sounds smarter than me, but in reality, he is not. He…
Keep Calm and Bake on
By Holly Stevenson. 16 views Coronavirus quarantines have had remarkable and unanticipated effects globally; in Venice, silt has settled to reveal the aquatic life of the famous canals, and in China CO2 emissions have fallen dramatically as a result in a reduction of industrial affairs. Beyond the viral images and headline-grabbing statistics, however, one only…
Blowing a New Wind Through the Anime Industry.
An insight into the ‘wonderful encounters’ of animation and why you should make the time to binge all the Studio Ghibli films you can during quarantine. By Madeline Brown. 11 views It is a rare occasion in life to find a single word that can perfectly compress and articulate an entire experience within as few…
Costume Making in Quarantine: Not a Mickey Mouse Affair
By Josephine Osborne. 12 views As a Geography student, I’m used to certain jokes. Normally, I would question their accuracy but during this period of social isolation I have found myself with colouring pencils and various other craft materials. However, it has no relation to the two fieldwork reports I should currently be writing. Instead,…
Sourdough and Sour Grapes: Baking in a Global Pandemic
By Amber Warner-Warr. 132 views Whilst the idea of not picking up my daily oat latte from Gail’s over the vacation was one that I found worrisome, there was a light at the end of the tunnel for me. Coming back in Summer term would provide me with all of the creamy caffeine and sugar…
The Politics of Sunbathing
By Eddie Holmes-Milner. 20 views. As the spring weather climbs towards summer, the English emerge from hibernation in pale droves, lathered in SPF 30 and their hopes for a tan. Some are fortunate enough to have a private basking zone, or ‘garden’, where they can make the transition from pallid to crispy, away from prying…
For the Love of Trees
A Book Review of Richard Powers’ “Overstory” by Bridget Stuart. 9 views My main coping mechanism in quarantine has been reading. Usually, I have one fiction and one non-fiction book on the go which allows me to switch my brain off and delve into an alternate reality whenever I feel like it. This escape has…
Fast Living
My experiences of fasting for lent by Anna Steinbrich. 15 views. Thirteen hours and thirty minutes. From sunrise to sunset. No eating, no drinking. It has been six and a half weeks since I started fasting for Lent. This is a religious observance in the Christian calendar spanning from Ash Wednesday to the Saturday before…
The All Seeing ‘I’?
By Alex Omidvar. 8 views. As human beings, we are all struck by existential problems. We do not know where we come from, we do not know why we are here in this mysterious world, and we do not know where we are going. Advances in knowledge mislead us into thinking we know more than…
One Small Step
By Marnie Ashbridge. 28 views. Warning: the following reading touches on suicidal themes which may upset some readers. As a teenager one day Simon Reeve found himself on a ledge contemplating the value of his life. Having left school with few qualifications and a track record of frequent run-ins with the police, he believed his…
The Quarantine Times 