Fulford Arms, 26 Nov 2018 Say Owt are York’s resident poetry gurus and last Monday they and Scottish spoken word artists Sonnet Youth hosted a night at the Fulford Arms that promised to be a literary house party, part poetry slam, part open mic, part piss-up. They delivered on that promise with a mix of […]
Other Stuff
Gin Festival York
York Barbican, Saturday 24th February 2018 Gin lovers of the UK, rejoice! Gin Festival is stuffed full of tasty gins just waiting to be sipped, and it’s (probably) coming to a city (relatively) near you! Last weekend the festival made its first northern pit stop at York’s Barbican, and I was pretty thrilled to be […]
Etsy Feature: TrashBaggs
So just when I was internally scolding myself for not having put out any Etsy features recently, what should come through the post but these adorable pins and pocket mirrors from up-cycling company TrashBaggs! Turns out DanMan’s mum has also become a bit of an Etsy fiend, and after she’d got some of these for […]
Review: Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
I am not an impulse buyer. I’m far too worrisome a person to risk not researching every little thing I buy for at least a week to avoid the crushing regret and unbearable hassle of having to – god forbid – return something. But when DanMan saw a video of Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo […]
5 Travel Essentials For Pasty Girls
Do you reflect the sun like a shining beacon of deathly light? Have you ever been mistaken for a fallen cloud, or alarmed friends and family by temporarily disappearing from sight while camouflaged against a white van? Does the beating sun have the power to turn you from snowy princess to beetroot beauty in the […]
Etsy Showcase: Lair of Soveyshina
So in my first Etsy Showcase (here) I mentioned that I’d been converted to the online crafty marketplace by a couple of incredible gifts – well the first of those was this incredible personalised Binding of Isaac themed figure. Yes, that’s right, you may be surprised to discover that these aren’t actually naked pictures of […]
Etsy Showcase: Punky Pins
I’m fairly newly a bit of an Etsy convert thanks to a couple of top-notch gifts, one of which was these awesome pins from Punky Pins. My sister showed me the cuter than cute ‘Cuterus’ pin less than a week before Christmas and we lamented that it would be the perfect present but alas, it […]