Category: Life Beyond The Kitchen Sink

• May 26, 2022

  kids who die

  I hope one day in the near future this poem from 1936 will stop being relevant. This is for the kids who die,Black and white,For kids will die certainly.The old and rich will live on awhile,As always,Eating blood and gold,Letting kids die. Kids will die in the swamps of MississippiOrganizing sharecroppersKids will die in the…
• April 17, 2022

  Short Rant.

  It’s not his slimy little face sneering with pride as he dons his immaculately ironed Nazi cosplay outfit, nor that he is the Conservative Association Chair in one of London’s most densely Jewish populated boroughs, what I find most terrifying about this photograph is his response: “He could not rule out” wearing a Nazi uniform.…
• March 4, 2022

  Ukraine

  If we want peace we have to talk about Imperialism. Framing the violent invasion of Ukraine by Russia as an unexpected and inexplicable act of aggression by Putin is intentionally misleading. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a vile act against humanity which should be condemned but it is neither unexpected or inexplicable. We have seen…
• January 17, 2022

  #Jan

  Saw this writing challenge and loved the self indulgence! I’m sure there’s a profound moral message to be raised but this post is not it. I’m keeping it vain and shallow because – well catharsis rocks x So probably the biggest misconception about me is that I’m an extravert.. But despite the carnival feathers and…
• November 6, 2019

  Votes Count

  Don’t lose your vote Last Sunday I was prevented from voting during a local Parliamentary Candidate vote. After queuing for almost an hour with my son, I was informed I would not be able to leave the hall until the vote had concluded four hours later. 4 hours with a 5 year old and no…
• October 30, 2019

  Retro

  Retrograde State of Mind Mercury Retrogrades have had a bit of a bad rap since their recent reincarnation into modern pop culture. By memes and astrology pages alone, Mercury in Retrograde would be up there with four horseman and the front page of The Daily Mail as something bound to ruin your day. But perhaps…
• July 13, 2016

  I just wanted to write a fun post….

  

  …But the world at the moment is playing out like a bad 90s disaster movie…  I mean Boris for Foreign Secretary? As in Mr Brexit Break It Don’t know How to fix it?   And then we have the Labour Party trying to destroy the first true Labour leader (pronounced decent human) that it’s had…
• June 30, 2016

  Was there ever a time before Scapegoat Britain? Part 1

  

  At first it seemed ridiculous to believe that people would believe that all of England’s problems were the result of the EU and of course those “terrible immigrants”.   We laughed about it in the staff room.  The same staff room where for the past year, disgruntled colleagues have  viciously blamed and attacked the Head…
• March 3, 2016

  ishare. weshare. YOUSHARE.

  

  I was delighted to receive an email today to say that my post The N word had been featured on the YouShare Project.   The stories that shape us… The N word is definitely a story that has shaped me. What stories have shaped you? Find many more inspirational and thought provoking stories from across…
• January 26, 2016

  The N Word

  

  If you were at a gym class and the song being played repeatedly used the N word, would you say something? Walking into my body conditioning class this morning, I was greeted by the N word blaring out of the studio speakers.  The class instructor seemed completely oblivious to the word, blonde pony tail swinging…
• January 16, 2016

  Brixton Bids farewell to Bowie

  

  Exit the tube station, politely avoid free newspapers and exhausted rat racers, navigate the Shibuyaesque traffic lights, then walk along the side of Morleys department store. The mood changes. It’s a quieter. Quiet enough to hear Rebel playing. Dark enough for the candles to illuminate the graffiti messages adorning the Iman cosmetics posters on the…
• September 24, 2015

  Amen for JC (Jeremy Corbyn)

  

  It’s been almost a year since my last post and it’s not really a coincidence that my little, no longer a baby, baby has just turned one. But I cannot put the blame for my lethargic state solely on the babe. Wading through the daily sludge of fad humanism (I think we are still on…
• March 6, 2015

  Things Round Here Are Changing

  This was the first ever blog post I wrote on BHW (almost 3 years ago) – It’s seemed to have got lost in the move so I thought I’d repost. “Gentrification seems to be the buzz word of the moment but as a born and bred working class Londoner what does it actually mean to me?  It…