So in about 10 hours and 15 minutes I'll be seeing the final Harry Potter film, the final installment of what has pretty much been my entire childhood, and most of my adolescence ( Read more... )

 So my mum runs the Scholarship Committee at my ballet school, which is basically the group of people who organise everything the owner of the school has no time to organise. Costumes and hire, timetables, funds, events, ritual witch burnings. Stuff like that.

It's mostly made up of upper middle class women, usually recently divorced, who have ( Read more... )

 I went to my school's annual Journalism Forum today. It was quite interesting, there was a lot of talk on the New Media Renaissance, and what effect new online media is having on print and radio media. The ways in which civilian journalism is aided (and also hindered) by social networking sites like Twitter and blog services.

One of the speakers ( Read more... )