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Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs. - Roman Payne
We lived in the city like one of them. Like the locals we could have been had I come here to study ten years ago, before life decided it had other plans for me. We explored and experienced it with our senses, rather than a to-do list of tourist spots, and these were the best sights, sounds and tastes we stumbled upon whilst we wandered.
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Things are different out here. Particularly in winter, when the days darken and time slows down until you’re almost certain it’s no longer moving at all. The mountains are all rugged ridges and unforgiving gullies, their summits shrouded in mist, leaving the vast valleys and sleepy villages below in shadow. I grew up here...
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Hurrying headlong into the New Year with my lofty goals is a sure-fire way to set myself up for a fall, and that fall will inevitably see all my good intentions and great plans scuppered for yet another year. Quite frankly, how am I meant to run ten miles when I’ve been inhaling mince pies for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the last six weeks?
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Compact, environmentally-conscious, unquestionably charming and so incredibly cool, 48 hours was all it took for me to set my heart on Copenhagen as my spiritual home. We only really scratched the surface of this impeccably designed and incredibly efficient city, but these were some of my favourite spots from the two days we spent there...
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“Creativity takes courage.”
This post - well, this site actually - has been sitting pretty on my desktop for the past six months, and at the back of my mind for the past six years. As a perfectionist - and in the interest of transparency, a tireless procrastinator - it's likely that if I don't publish it now, I will still be sitting here in another six years time, riddled with regret that I didn't just start something sooner,
So, here it is. Something of Nothing. Taking its name from my predisposition to worry - always making something of nothing - and my creative aspirations - always making something out of nothing! With a tendency to let my inner critic talk any can-do attitude I might have into taking a nap instead, this space will serve as a constant reminder that done is better than perfect, and something is better than nothing.