Month: August 2018

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    8 things journalism has taught me

    Facebook’s Timehop can be a terrible thing. It is a vortex of photos of long-forgotten nights out and terrible haircuts all popping up just to dampen your mood first thing in the morning. But it is also a scary reminder of how much time has flown. I got onto Facebook during my first year at…

  • Time for tea with Yumchaa

    Tea is something of a national pastime here in the UK. But I think it is fair to say quite a few of us don’t know much about it beyond the obvious; “milk, no sugar please.” The folks at Yumchaa are keen to change all that. So last night S and I headed over to…

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    Escape to the country

    With weather like we are having it seems a crime to rush away to foreign climes. S and I love a good globe-trotting jaunt just as much as the next person, but as the madness of the last few weeks faded away we decided to escape for some R&R in the countryside. S knew of…

  • The day Suzy Bae took over my Twitter

    Social media is a strange beast. It has been a second nature part of my life for quite a few years, but it still manages to throw up a few surprises. I spend a large amount of my time – both personal and professional – on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. For the first two of…

  • Why I blog…

    I’ve been quiet for the last couple of weeks here at Millennial Gent. It has been a hectic time at work and one of the side effects of writing for a living is that when work is busy the blog can get pushed to one side. This is partly because of time constraints and partly…