Being a Scarlet Woman
“Stop judging me because I’m a single woman. I drink coffee, have sex, buy pies, and enjoy battery-operated devices. If you can’t deal with that, I will find another housekeeper who can.” There are...
View ArticleSabb diary: the busy semester ahead
There’s so much going on in St Andrews right now, it’s almost difficult to keep up. We’re just off the back of two suc- cessful weeks – Refreshers’ and RAG. I was really pleased with how many people...
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Send in the fresh meat for the grinder: February 2014
I have moved. Sadly I am not writing to you from Nepal, not even from Paris. No, rather than being tear gassed by French riot police, I find myself in a eight-bedroom house in south Manchester, about...
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Sabb Diary: what, who, when, how and why
You may have seen the banners hap- hazardly hanging out of windows or the assault of colours, flyers, and smiles outside the library. It’s a crazy week filled with an atmosphere un- like any other....
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48 hours in Tel Aviv
We arrived into Tel Aviv as the heavens opened. Literally. We had gone almost a month and a half in the field, with not so much as a drop of rain. We were baking, the bees were happy and the flowers...
View ArticleIf that’s graduation calling, tell him I’m just putting on my lipstick. And...
The train to Bognor Regis was late on Monday. And the crackly voice announcing this at Gatwick railway station sounded really upset about it. As upset as I was when I woke up with a cold, to the news...
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Sports news and shorthand panic: March 2014
“Wait, is Edinburgh further north than York?” I believe this was the moment when I realised that I wasn’t so tragically out of my depth on my News Associates journalism course. The other trainees have...
View ArticleSabb diary: We must show more respect
On Saturday night I went to Sitara. It’s the first fashion show I’ve been to in St Andrews as I’ve always been a bit unsure of spending an evening watching fellow students walk up and down a stage in...
View ArticleSabb diary: Supporting the call for fair pay
As you have no doubt heard by now, university staff across the UK, led by the University and College Union (UCU) are preparing to carry out a ‘marking boycott’ as part of an ongo- ing dispute about...
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The best of times?
Credit: Sarah Dickins It was the best of times, it was the best of times: and quite a lot of them too, I’ve been living in Madrid for 7 months and 22 days. Or 33 weeks and 3 days. Or 234 days,...
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