You don’t see many homeless people where I live. Sure, if you begin to look beneath the surface you find that there are a number of people without a proper place to live, but it’s easy to be oblivious of them. It was an enormous shock the first time my parents took us to London. I can remember, at the age of 6 or 7 clinging to my mum’s hand as she led me along the pavement on Oxford Street…
When we go on holidays to Poland where Irina’s family live, there are a load of favourite spots we like to visit. One of them is the cinema. Coming from a small island, this is a pretty exciting outing; I have seen bigger screens in people’s living rooms than the ones in our local multiplex. This last time we watched Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I’ve never been massively into the trilogy in the past, but wow, I loved it.…
For a couple of hours last weekend I helped my brother move house. As we lifted things through the front door and up the stairs and distributed them to various rooms, something struck me. As his family was moving into a new home, there were multitudes of others around the middle-east and Europe and elsewhere at that very moment who were being forced in the very opposite direction – away from their homes. I felt perplexed. How could something good…