by Tracy Crisp | Dec 12, 2010 | reading watching listening
My love for Annie Lennox is undiminished by time. My first real idol. Or perhaps second after Suzie Quatro. I’ve never bought a Christmas album before though the mister was once given the Mariah Carey one in his work’s Secret Santa. It looks good next to...
by Tracy Crisp | May 22, 2009 | writing
One thing giving me the shits is this whole ‘oh, look at twitter, isn’t that amazing? All these people writing things in 140 characters or less.’ Brevity is nothing new, peeps. Haiku, anyone? And shock. Brevity nurtures wit. Really? Oscar Wilde,...
by Tracy Crisp | Apr 21, 2009 | Uncategorised
So, I’m up to the part where Catherine and Linton start exchanging letters, and I really couldn’t be bothered reading the rest. Why is this so? I have read this book countless times before and it has never let me down (or I have never let it down). Is it...
by Tracy Crisp | Aug 7, 2008 | old school blogging
Two things which no longer need to be discussed in newspaper columns or on radio: 1. The names people give their children. Yes, there are some rubbish, even ridiculous, names, no I wouldn’t give them to my children, but some people did. Can we move on please?...
by Tracy Crisp | Jun 12, 2008 | Uncategorised
The lovely meli tagged me for this meme. She has tagged me before, and I’ve never done the memes. Mostly just because I’ve never got around to them, not because I don’t think she’s lovely. You’ve nearly all done it by now, but...