The Spoon Drawer

Source: Flickr I had always forgotten about essays during the summer when I was at university and it is probably the same for some other students. The first few weeks back are always slightly relaxed and the work load is not as bad as it will be the rest of the year. Fresher’s week will be great and you might start to forget why you are at university, I know I did. Essay deadlines will soon begin to stack up towards the end of the term. You might find yourself snowed under a lot of deadlines at any one time and the stress that comes with it will not be too far away. I remember feeling like my work load got too much towards the end of each year at university and I often considered paying someone to write my essay for me. It would have made life so much easier but I never went through with it. If you are anything like I was, your student loan will be spent on bulk buying beer at the beginning of every term and you might have to live off plain pasta for a few weeks bu

I recently read up on a new concept in clubbing that's apparently been sweeping London and has now made it down to Brighton: early weekday morning club nights. No, I'm talking about wild after parties into the small hours, which have been popular in clubland for a long time now, but actual sessions set up to take place before revellers head off to work. This brave new concept is known as Morning Gloryville and as soon as I'd heard they were on their way to Brighton I knew I had to give it a go. Brighton's first pre-work club night/morning took place last Thursday, from 6:30am until 10:30am, in what's now called Shooshh , but will be better known to most under its previous guise of the Honey Club. With a strict no alcohol policy the event isn't billed as somewhere to carry on the shenanigans of the previous evening's debauchery, but rather an opportunity to start the day with some no holds barred dancefloor action. The organisers claim there is no more

I've been reading this month about the popularity of Hot Tub Cinema , a unique experience whereby you can enjoy cult classic films whilst lounging in a hot tub atop a building, among friends and strangers. Hot Tub Cinema is currently taking place in trendy Shoreditch (where else) but will be upping sticks to Bristol next month to give the west country a taste of this fun new phenomenon. So what's it all about? The pop up events bandwagon has been growing in popularity to the point where it will surely soon become passe. I predict we are reaching pop up saturation point so there is a limited window to get involved before we are so inundated by pop up shops, restaurants, art exhibitions and happening wine bars that those of us who are genuinely cool will have to wash our hands of them, just like when Jeremy Clarkson ruined stonewashed denim for the rest of us. Still, for the time being, there's a little mileage left in the concept, and this watching a film in a jacuzz

With the impending vote for Scottish independence almost upon us, those of us in favour of keeping the unity are becoming slightly concerned with what seems to be a final push for separation. Three weeks before the referendum and support for Scottish independence has grown 4% to a very worrying 47% ( see stats here ). While Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling battle it out with a selection of various politicians and celebrities publicly supporting both of them respectively, the rest of us with much less influence can only watch on. Personally, despite being a big advocate of liberality, freedom of speech and independence to be given wherever its wanted, I am against the bill. Of course there are serious economic advantages to union and resounding complications that can ensue from such as exclusion from the EU and the loss of various trading advantages. Yet my reasoning for opposing independence is simply the age old one of convenience and habit. Scotland has been unified