2019 Playlist and reading list
The majority of the music on this list isn’t even new, but then this was always more about the music that framed my particular year than the music…
Category: Music
2018 Playlist (and books this time too)
He’s made of bones, he’s made of blood
He’s made of flesh, he’s made of love
He’s made of you, he’s made of me
Unity
2016 playlist
2016 was a pretty awful year for the world, but I would be doing many people and things a disservice if I said it was for me. It…
The things I’ll never get to
It’s Record Store Day. It’s Record Store Day and I have this sourdough starter I took on as an afterthought staring me in the face every time I…
2015 playlist
A brief interruption from the usual travel stuff for my 2015 playlist. Roughly in order from the start to end of the year, all stuff that reminds me…
Beginnings and ends, plans and memories
This weekend I booked my first train and my flight from Bangkok back to Edinburgh. It’s really real FO-REAL now. I just have to fill in the middle…
Anticipation, Dave Grohl’s right leg, and perfect days
Way back in December, I bought two tickets to see the Foo Fighters play Murrayfield stadium on the 23rd of June. I’ve wanted to see them live for…
Fit for travel
Spending the better part of 3 months sitting on trains isn’t the best way to keep up one’s fitness. Particularly when one of the things you’re looking forward…
2014 playlist
Continuing on the musical theme, I’ve put together my definitive 2014 playlist. I will always be the kind of girl who makes mix tapes. Over the years they’ve…
Play me on the radio
Way back when I was backpacking in Europe for the first time, it wasn’t as easy as it is today to carry around a load of music. We…