Writing
Sensory Deprivation then Overload
A Journey to the Heart of London's Surreal Underground
“You're going to be blindfolded. Then, we will lead you towards the secret location with our two guides.”
This announcement commenced a meeting organised by an exploration group formed via meetup.com: a website that encourages people to get away from their computers to indulge in face-to-face interaction. We are outside a pub, near London Bridge. It is a chilly spring evening, 2009...
Not Moshing at a Metal Gig is Bad for your Health
Moshing really divides a crowd. On one hand, we have people whose goal it is to expend pent up energy by bumping into other people. On the other hand, we have music lovers that don’t need to mosh to enjoy their rock gig. Naturally, we also have the outside extremists that piss everyone off...
I Look Like a Disney Villain and I Love it
Growing up as one of the few non-white kids in a London school during the 1980s, being the odd one out quickly became my speciality. To prove my prowess as token playground loser, I developed a debilitating shyness that made socialising near impossible. It wasn't even ironic when I, the little brown girl, took abuse from the little black boy; he was a childhood socialite and I was a hermit whose only method of connecting with people was to drop origami water bombs on them from my second-floor council house bedroom...
Marine Engineering & an Overactive Imagination
Marlin is a white fish which is very difficult to prepare. Overcook it for just a moment and it turns from a soft, flaky meat into a slab of white leather. Marin is a company that specialises in scale-model tank testing and simulations for the marine industry. I was lucky enough to sample both marlin and Marin on a work trip to the Netherlands in spring 2009. The marlin was cooked to perfection, and the trip to Marin was eye opening. This is the story of what I witnessed on my tour of the amazing tank testing facilities...
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