This summer I took The TEFL Org 120-hour Premium Teaching English as a Foreign Language Course. This involves 30 hours of grammar and...

I recently discovered my new favourite type of workout - combat! When the gyms reopened after the first lockdown I went back to the...

As a kid I read a lot. I was the person checking more books out of the library than I could carry every single time. As a result I could...

Having red hair comes with its pros and cons. It makes you part of a community of people who can relate to the joys associated with it -...

In a world of fast fashion we need to start thinking about the sustainability of our wardrobes. Too many garments are bought at...

Sometimes we take the sea for granted and don't realise what a vulnerable state it is in fact in. It's hard to fully appreciate the...

The pros, the cons and the facts. Since just after Christmas we've been back under national lockdown. Three months on, Easter fast...

The LGBTQIA+ community and everything that surrounds it is a topic that is talked about more and more in society, and rightly so. For too...

Last month I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Warwick Economics Summit 2021. This year was a bit different from usual because...

This year we can't do a lot of the things we'd normally be doing in the run up to Christmas but here are a few things I've been doing to...

Sometimes it can seem difficult to stay motivated when it comes to fitness, especially as the weather worsens and the days get shorter...

It's nearly the end of October and I've now been in Aberdeen for six weeks and had one month of second year classes so I thought I'd...

It’s the end of summer 2020, the world is still in partial lockdown and the fear of Covid-19 continues. Across the UK, thousands of...

In December 2018 I flew out to Geneva to become a seasonaire for the next 5 months. I was 18 years old, on my gap year, and this was to...

June We're into June now and lockdown remains in place in Scotland. Last week, for the first time since March, it became legal to visit...

I'm not particularly creative or artistic but I do like making greetings cards. My cards do not involve much drawing, painting or talent...

Having now spent almost 10 years struggling to master French, I have tried out many different websites, apps, teachers, resources and...

Update from lockdown: don't seem to have caught the virus yet so life is carrying on much as before. It was Easter last weekend. It was a...

This year I went vegan for lent. I've been wanting to try going full vegan for a while now and I finally got round to it. I can't say...

These are very strange times. The current global situation is the kind of thing you read about in a sci-fi novel, not something you...