Tag: Holly Thomas

Travel Jerusalem: A Modern Guide To An Ancient Wonder

by Holly Thomas. All images by iPhone, copyright Holly Thomas [Twitter, Instagram: @HolstaT] Jerusalem is in our consciousness from earliest childhood. But it’s a place that, for many of those who have never been, occupies the same mental space as fairy tales. Something which we’ve known of since we can remember, but can’t imagine being …

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Kennedy’s Chocolatiers’ Convention; The Latest In Chocolate

“It’s just lovely,” says Richard Reilly, Managing Director of Kinnerton Confectionary. Everyone knows  everyone, and people tend to help out where they can. Around Easter sometimes we make eggs for each other.” I nod through a mouthful of rum and raisin ganache truffle. We’re standing in the British Library, a venue aptly ripe with imagination …

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The Joy of Teen Sex?

I recall a year nine English lesson during which a friend and I compared what we’d done over the weekend. I had written an essay, ironically on Romeo and Juliet- an early parable about the potential hazards of teen sex. She’d given her boyfriend a blowjob during Shrek at the cinema.

We love: Avril Lavigne's 'What The Hell'

Irritating though it can be when a woman in her mid twenties looks and sings like a 14 year old (‘yeah’ & ‘woah’ are to Avril what ‘uh’ is to Britney), she does come up trumps when it comes to peppy, infectious girlypunk. You can try to resist, we say don’t bother.

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