Author Archives: Beth Wren
My Trip to Edinburgh
In which I forget which one’s Arthur’s Seat, spend a lot of money on tea and fall in love with a beautiful city. Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting Edinburgh: a city I have been dying to visit ever since coming to York. It’s only two and a half hours by train, and after […]
My Post-Graduation Reading List
As I struggle through volumes of John Donne and pages of the Medieval Welsh magical realism of The Mabinogion (?!), the light at the end of the tunnel is that glorious post-university beacon, when I know I will be able to read ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING I WANT. Now I say this as a student who […]
A Rainy Afternoon’s Work
Once more I’ve been terrible with blogging recently, and just in case you thought it was because I was off somewhere exotic doing something exciting, I thought I’d do a little post with some pictures of what my life really consists of. As it’s my last proper term at university, I have a lot of […]
My Trip to Salzburg
In December I went to Salzburg to visit my friend who goes to university there, and I was glad of the opportunity to see the beautiful city at Christmas time. I took a few photos: (Sorry for the extreme Christmassiness in mid-January; I’ve only just found my connector to put the pictures on my laptop!) […]
2013: a Review
As the year draws to an inevitable end, it’s time to take a moment to reflect on 2013. Not the media-obsessed, news and entertainment public 2013, but my own personal one. I like to think of myself as an eternal optimist and so, despite the obligatory bad parts, here is my year: the good bits. […]
Dealing with Stress and Anxiety
I’d like to begin this blog post with a precursor. Actually, several. It is a fact that everybody will and does get stressed/anxious/nervous at some point in their lives. It is entirely normal and an essential part of human nature. The nerves and stress we feel often motivate us to achieve our best and although uncomfortable […]
My Autumn Playlist
Just thought I’d share the link to my Autumn playlist on 8tracks. If you hadn’t heard of it, 8tracks is an awesome playlist sharing website where you can choose the genre and mood of music you want to listen to, and it recommends playlists that other people have made. It’s all free and it’s a […]
Mid-Degree Crisis
*Ok, so technically it’s an end-of-degree crisis but that just wasn’t as catchy. So if you didn’t know, I am an English Literature student currently in my third and final year of study. I’ve spent the last two and a bit years studying everything from Bede to Byron and now it’s come to a point […]
Review Book #4: Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
Ok, so I have two confessions to make. 1) I completely forgot about my reading list for the year… https://foreveronalilo.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/7-books-im-going-to-read-this-year/ 2) I also completely forgot that I read book #4 Enduring Love over the summer… Oops. Basically I have a terrible memory. Let’s crack on! Having read and enjoyed a couple of Ian McEwan’s books (Atonement, […]
Autumn Leaves
I love Autumn. A lot. And to celebrate my love of autumn, I took the opportunity of a lovely sunny autumnal afternoon to take some photos with my Bridge camera. I’m really happy with how they came out. I love experimenting with different angles, but next I need to get into editing and post-photo production. […]
Bethany Wren 