Noughts+Crosses: a review

29th April 2022

Ever since reading ‘Noughts and Crosses’ all the way back in Year 7, I fell passionately in love with the series, almost rivalling the actual love story of the two main protagonists. So, you can only imagine my delight in March 2020 when I discovered the BBC had commissioned the series, and again in April 2022 when season two dropped (in fact, this very week.) All this to say that this series has meant a lot to me, over five books and two seasons of TV, and yet I will still attempt to provide an unbiased review for the TV show.

Noughts+Crosses: a review

Ukraine and its never-ending quest to prove its independent existence

29th April 2022

Ukraine is an exceptionally beautiful country – and you’d have gotten quite familiar with it due to the extensive media coverage of the unforgivable war Putin started on the 24th of February 2022. Yet, I would argue that this conflict began much earlier than that, with the unlawful annexation of Crimea in 2014 being a memorable example of the aggression towards Ukraine.

Ukraine and its never-ending quest to prove its independent existence

My Top Ten Spring Flowers

28th April 2022

Spring is my favourite time of the year, without a doubt. Watching the world come back to life, leaf by leaf, is a truly magical experience. I will never (and I mean never) get tired of seeing new plants emerge from a seemingly dormant earth, and in celebration of that I thought I’d put together a ranking of my top ten spring flowers.

My Top Ten Spring Flowers