Hush little (food) baby
It happened again the other day. Was just sitting in the coffee room, minding my own business, when a nice lady I vaguely knew came over to me, smiled kindly, and asked ‘Sooooo, when’s it all happening?…’ I immediately thought she must mean my (very exciting) exhibition of drawings in a pub; or maybe she’d […]
Hello, kitty…
Ewa Szypula wants a cat. She gets more than she’d bargained for. Wandering around Paris one day, and looking for a sunny terrace to sit on, my friend and I stumbled upon a big café sign featuring a cat. We had found our way to one of Paris’s several ‘cat cafés’. Inside, customers sip their coffees […]
Singing badly at a musical? Alert the press!
Browsing the local news reports recently, I spotted the following headline: ‘Woman “singing badly” removed from The Bodyguard musical’ ‘A woman who sang “loudly and badly” through a performance of The Bodyguard was ejected from a theatre after she became aggressive to people who told her to shut up.’ I’m a bit disappointed over the […]
I got my new shoes on
Ewa Szypula goes on holiday and discovers a whole new meaning to ‘ethical shopping’… On a recent holiday visiting friends in Catalonia, I noticed that my (male) friend was wearing an exceptionally beautiful pair of shoes. They looked like dancers’ shoes: sort of like espadrilles, very simply made, dirty-white canvas, shapely, and with a pair […]
Hot yoga is the future
A book called ‘The Burning Question’, which I recently came across, has convinced me that unless all countries agree fairly soon to stop digging up and burning fossil fuels, we are headed for a situation where, within the next 50 years, the Earth’s temperature will rise beyond repair, the ice caps will melt, and the […]
From cyclist to Cinderella
I am a cyclist. But before I became a cyclist, I was… a non-cyclist. This is an important distinction, because non-cyclists and cyclists have some very different habits. As a non-cyclist, you get used to carrying a tiny umbrella in a small handbag; you occasionally go out in a floaty skirt; your life is ruled […]
