I wouldn’t call myself a bad person. On the scale I think I’m pretty average. I hold the door for others, I thank the bus driver – when I remember to. I’m ready with a smile. I remember my p’s and q’s, I’m polite and for the most part I don’t swear. There’s no effing […]
Whose To Blame: Sexual Harassment and Sex Education
New research has found that girls wear shorts under their school skirts due to fears of sexual harassment involving flashing their underwear. This supports the statistics reported by the BBC in September 2015 which revealed there had been 5,500 sexual offenses recorded in UK schools from 2011-2014. Within this number, 4,000 were alleged physical sexual […]
Living in RealTime
RealTime is a phrase used by the technological industry to describe applications, gaming, computing etc. happening in the here and now. Computer programmes can provide us with data or make calculations with startling speed that reflect the environment/time when the query was made. In gaming we no longer have to wait for our turn. We […]
Depression Daze: Fear of Recovery
We hear and talk about recovery a lot. Whether it’s physical, mental, emotional or spiritual etc. Recovery is a beacon of hope, the light at the end of the tunnel, or any other inspirational (and cheesy!) metaphors you wish to apply to it. The idea of recovery can be extremely motivating for those who suffer […]
A Room of One’s Own: Alone but not Lonely
I hope Virginia Woolf won’t mind my theft of her words but they seemed apt for the topic at hand. Many of us fear loneliness, it is the spectre hanging over us as we go about our daily lives, as we interact with others. As people we seem to have an undying need to be […]