Sinful Sunday: Moulin Rouge…
No matter what you say the show is ending our way. You’ve gotta stand your ground for freedom, beauty, truth, and love.
– Moulin Rouge
Can I touch you like that? – On communication in a pandemic…
‘Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,
What can I do to kill it and be free?’
– John Keats
Sinful Sunday: Ready to launch…
‘When you’re getting ready to launch into space, you’re sitting on a big explosion just waiting to happen.’
– Sally Ride
Sinful Sunday: Through the wardrobe…
‘If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.’
– C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Sinful Sunday: Elderflowers…
‘And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells – they are a sign that pure creation takes place.’
– D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
Sinful Sunday: Soaped up…
‘I love to get in the mud, to appreciate being clean.’
– Lailah Gifty Akita
Sinful Sunday: PPE…
‘I guess what scares me the most now is the thought that I won’t be able to protect you’
– Julia Hoban, Willow
Sinful Sunday: Through the leaves…
‘When the time has come, every leaf turns to face the sun!’
– Akilnathan Logeswaran
Holding out for a hero: on superheroes and NHS key workers…
‘Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.’
– Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle
Motherhood, year 1.5: libido lockdown…
“Sex drive’s decent energy. Y’ can’t argue about that. Keep sex drive all bottled up inside and you get dull-witted. Throws your whole body out of whack. Holds the same for men and for women”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World