Nomadic Emma

Made famous by George Orwell's '1984', Room 101 is the place that contains your worst fear or nightmare. On a slightly lighter ...

It can be a depressing time of year, these autumnal months. Clocks going back, days getting shorter, central heating going on.. So it seems ...

My dad is one of the greatest people in the whole, wide world. He's mathematical and musical all in one, and he'll go and build thin...

I often think that I must surely be one of the luckiest people in the world to be born into such a wonderful collection of people. So I th...

My grandmother, mother and sisters, so much of what I now am comes from each of you. My granny, who, if I squeeze my eyes closed, I can ju...

It's done. At about 2am on Tuesday morning I clicked 'send' which signalled the end of Masters year one. It's been a bumpy b...

This is my world right now. 3,500 words to go until the end of the school year. Surrounded by wads of articles and textbooks stretched open ...

I'm now a godmother, twice over. One in the conventional religious style, one in a more eclectic sense. Even though I'm not a religi...

I think I may have just seen four Abba impersonators, complete with gold hot pants and blonde shoulder-length haircuts singing right next to...

My alarm went off in the dark this morning. I awoke in wonder about what on earth was going on, until it dawned on me. It hadn't yet daw...