One of our newspapers The Evening Standard is running a campaign to tackle illiteracy in London. According to the paper, one in three children do not own a book and how one million working adults cannot read in the city. I am shocked that so many people are being held back in the world by [...]
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Reading is a right not a privledge
Posted by Victoria-writes on September 29, 2011
http://victoria-writes.com/2011/09/29/reading-is-a-right-not-a-privledge/
London’s burning
London is currently in the midst of night-time rioting. Thankfully my place of work in North London hasn’t been too badly affected and I live outside the city so haven’t seen anything first-hand and hopefully won’t! Watching it on the news and reading it in the newspaper, it’s shocking to see so much chaos and [...]
Posted by Victoria-writes on August 9, 2011
http://victoria-writes.com/2011/08/09/londons-burning/
Superinjunctions are a super waste of time
Currently the news over here is alight with the story of super injunctions – male celebrities getting the courts to place an injunction on the media reporting their affairs. A famous footballer recently got one taken out to save his affair with a Big Brother contestant from coming out but Twitter revealed his name anyway [...]
Posted by Victoria-writes on May 24, 2011
http://victoria-writes.com/2011/05/24/superinjunctions-are-a-super-waste-of-time/
Moments in our time
Growing up, you’re taught history at school and you often wonder what it would have been like to actually life through it. It almost doesn’t seem real - just pages in a book like a story. My two main subjects in history at school were the Tudors and WW1 and WW2. The wars although far more recent still didn’t feel real because I wasn’t there. [...]
Posted by Victoria-writes on May 3, 2011
http://victoria-writes.com/2011/05/03/moments-in-our-time/
A Blue Blue Monday
It was a stressful start to “Blue Monday” – officially the most depressing day of the year. We all have that feeling – Xmas and all that festive cheer is long gone, our money supply is short and the weather is bad! To top off the general dissatisfaction, I arrived this morning for work to a very wet London. [...]
Posted by Victoria-writes on January 17, 2011
http://victoria-writes.com/2011/01/17/a-blue-blue-monday/
Eastenders: a tragic story too far??
I admit it – I’ve watched Eastenders for years mainly because it’s nice to watch numbly after tea and is always guaranteed to make me feel better about my own life. But now I’m seriously considering dropping it off my TV viewing all together. This week its hit the news all over the UK for it’s cot [...]
Posted by Victoria-writes on January 7, 2011
http://victoria-writes.com/2011/01/07/eastenders-a-tragic-story-too-far/
I heart awards
