I play the same song too many times
Hannah
Tonight I am supposed to finish a page of Maths, but Clair de Lune is playing in my room for so long that I stop counting. I know the piece…
These four subjects keep interrupting each other
School start properly next week. Or this week. It depend who you ask, and whether you count the afternoon they hand out the reading lists as “starting.” I have four…
The Nightingale and the Rose is a story about price
I read Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose on Thursday night, which was a mistake only because I then couldn’t fall asleep. It’s on the IGCSE World Literature list…
UK rates stayed at 3.75%. The next move might be up, not down.
In December the Bank of England cut Bank Rate to 3.75%, and the news sound like a door opening. I remember the tone more than I remember any graph. It…
Luxury brands still sold handbags while holiday flights got wrecked.
There is a window in town with a bag on a pedestal, lit as if it were a small painting. I do not want the bag. I want to understand…
Food prices finally calmed down — because the big shops were scared to go first.
I have started keeping receipts, which is not a personality I planned. Not in a scrapbook. In the inside pocket of my bag, until they turn pale and I throw…
I punched a song into paper so a tiny box could play it
Today was the exhibition for my Year 9 capstone, 2 June, and the whole project fit in a white box you can hold in two hands. It is a music…
The war thousands of miles away is about to show up on the electricity bill.
I left my lamp on again while I was reading. My mum say the sentence she always say, the one about the bill, and I almost answer that a lamp…
The same holiday flight cost about a quarter more than last year.
There is a family chat that only wake up when someone say the word “flights.” It woke up this week. A parent had searched a summer date we talked about…
The law now says your school cannot make you buy a pile of logo kit.
I emptied my PE bag onto the bedroom floor this week because the zip had started eating itself, and the pile look like a small shop had fallen over. Logo…