Rhiannon Hutchings
Halfway through my first year as an Early Career Teacher
If I had a pound for every time I said 'it's been a while', I’d probably be a millionaire. Being an adult is hard for a multitude of...
Musings.
Rhiannon Hutchings
- May 3, 2021
- 5 min
I'll bring you flowers in the pouring rain...
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." I don't suppose...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Apr 13, 2021
- 5 min
On pedestals and idealism
We've all been there - watching somebody with disdain as they flounce about on their high horse. How's this for a plot twist, though:...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Mar 28, 2021
- 1 min
Sunday night reminders
Tomorrow is a new day. You can wake up and be miserable, or you can wake up and seize the opportunity. The choice is yours. You are...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Mar 24, 2021
- 4 min
Moving towards a brighter future: habits to keep and discard from the past year in lockdown
Yesterday marked one year since the start of a '3 week' lockdown here in the UK. As of today, 28,653,523 people across our four nations...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Mar 7, 2021
- 6 min
Reflections on incarceration: Chris Atkins' memoir and lockdown life
I recently finished reading A Bit of a Stretch, the startling memoir by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Chris Atkins. I liked the look of the...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Feb 28, 2021
- 2 min
A sneak peek at some disappointed poems
In the future I'd quite like to be the proud owner of several poetry collections. I think it'd be pretty cool. In fact, I've already...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Feb 21, 2021
- 8 min
On neighbours
Do you know your neighbours? One of the strangest paradoxes about living in a city is that you're surrounded by millions of people and...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Feb 14, 2021
- 5 min
Love
This is a post about love. There are no violins, no scarlet roses or Hallmark cards adorned with teddy bears or swelling hearts, just...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Feb 6, 2021
- 6 min
Waste not, want not
There are many cool things about being an adult. When I was a teenager, I looked forward to getting older - not old old, not mouths to...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Jan 29, 2021
- 3 min
The joy of small successes
I post quite a lot about self-reflection and growth. Essentially I'm just a massive fan of mirrors and plants. Recently, our lives have...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Dec 23, 2020
- 4 min
2020.
I remember confetti and peals of drunken laughter as we grabbed each other and embraced, skittish and sweaty, overwhelmed at the prospect...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Aug 14, 2020
- 4 min
On friendship
Navigating your twenties sure ain’t easy. I mean, it’s such a weird period of your life. Exciting, yes, spontaneous, very much so, but...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Jul 13, 2020
- 5 min
On being an active learner
The idea for this blog post came to me quite suddenly. I've been reading An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green (great book,...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Jun 17, 2020
- 3 min
On growth
It's Week 13 of lockdown here in the UK. Of course, circumstances have changed somewhat - some shops have opened up, you've got to wear a...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Jun 13, 2020
- 7 min
Cancelling and condemnation
Ahh, social media. Some may say it's a portal through which we are given the opportunity to reinvent ourselves, to present to the world...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Jun 7, 2020
- 5 min
Black Lives Matter.
Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well. I really wanted to address what has been going on recently concerning the BLM movement. I...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Jun 1, 2020
- 9 min
Weeds
Jo is a woman in love with Lyle Peters. Today she is a guest at his wedding. Jo takes another draw of her cigarette and blows the smoke...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- May 14, 2020
- 15 min
My 7-day writing challenge
Hey guys, I hope you are all having a decent week! Seven days ago I challenged myself to write a little something once per day for a...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Apr 11, 2020
- 6 min
Daily musings: Writing in isolation during a pandemic
Let me start by saying that this is my first blog post of 2020 and of the new decade. The sun is shining, I'm 25 and thrivin' but...I'm...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Mar 18, 2019
- 6 min
Daily musings: On creating and chasing your dreams
It's Monday morning and I'm having an existential crisis. Ok, it's not an existential crisis per se, it's more like an overwhelming...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Feb 27, 2019
- 4 min
Daily musings: On learning and our insane capabilities
Having started a few new jobs recently, I've been feeling the effects of being a little fish in a big pond. That is to say I've been more...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Dec 13, 2018
- 16 min
Extracts from my unfinished novels | 'The one about a single mum whose twin babies have superpowers'
I know you've probably read the title of this post and gone 'what even?' Reading it back, it does sound a bit wild. But let me explain. ...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Nov 28, 2018
- 4 min
Daily musings: My love-hate relationship with writing
‘There is nothing to writing,’ Ernest Hemingway once said. ‘All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.’ I have to say, Ernest...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Nov 20, 2018
- 2 min
Daily musings: Why autumn is my favourite time of year
Ahh, autumn. What a beautiful time of year. The leaves turn a multitude of fiery colours, the nights start drawing in, fireworks light up...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Nov 17, 2018
- 1 min
Daily musings: How men smell
Fewer things are nicer than a man who smells good. A man that smells good is nice, but a nice man who smells good is even better. A nice...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Mar 20, 2018
- 4 min
Saying 'F*ck it'
Have you ever been scared? I don’t mean the leaping of your chest at seeing the fat, hairy spider behind your chest of drawers. Or the...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Mar 10, 2018
- 3 min
Read this if you're on your period
Good day to you, sister. HA. This ain't a fucking good day, this is a fucking awful day. (N.B. I'm currently crying and raging...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Jan 21, 2018
- 3 min
Goals for 2018
I know it's a tad late but...Happy New Year! I hope everyone has been enjoying the worst month of the year but hey, there is still much...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Jan 20, 2018
- 2 min
One good thing a day 2017
Hey guys, So last year I decided to take part in a challenge. Ok, it wasn't really a challenge so to speak, but the act of writing down...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Nov 25, 2017
- 22 min
Extracts from my unfinished novels | 'The Untitled Cinderella Story'
Hello again! I'm assuming you have already read the unfinished novel I posted prior to this and now you're back for more. Which is great!...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Oct 20, 2017
- 20 min
Extracts from my unfinished novels | 'Agent Plasma and the French Exchange'
Well, hello there! It seems you have stumbled upon a little room inside of my head. Don't worry, it's not as weird as you think; I can't...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Oct 12, 2017
- 3 min
Some of my all-time favourite quotes
As an English Literature student, quotes and deep meaningful conversations make up a fairly substantial part of my life. I love it - I...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Oct 8, 2017
- 3 min
Vicky
I was asked to name a place To which I go when I feel sad Nothing sprang to mind Except for a place to which I go when I feel ...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Oct 3, 2017
- 5 min
Love in the age of consumerism
Recently a friend and I were taking about relationships, which we do often as a) she has a boyfriend of two years and is a great source...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Sep 6, 2017
- 1 min
Men are like zits
Men are like zits, the big juicy ones. One will show up uninvited and you're like, "really? REALLY?" but actually you can't wait to...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Sep 6, 2017
- 1 min
Sunset
There’s something very intimate about a sunset. Rays of light cast a divine glow across the world, causing even the ugliest things to...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Jun 1, 2017
- 2 min
Thinking of You
There's something beautiful about London in the rain What it is I cannot say But grey can be a beautiful colour too And what is more...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Mar 19, 2017
- 6 min
Film Review of Into the Wild
Into the Wild (2007) is an independent biographical drama, directed by Sean Penn and adapted from a book of the same name. The book,...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Jan 27, 2017
- 3 min
Mini film review of How To Be Single
I was looking for a romantic comedy to watch the other day and stumbled upon How To Be Single, which I assumed would be a little less...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Nov 13, 2016
- 3 min
Mini film review of What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
The other day I watched What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993) as I had heard good things, particularly where Leonardo DiCaprio’s acting was...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Sep 14, 2016
- 6 min
Film Review of Me Before You
Thea Sharrock’s film adaptation of the thought-provoking and heart wrenching novel Me Before You, written by Jojo Moyes, had me giggling,...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Jan 3, 2016
- 1 min
The Dragon
Recently A match was struck A flame lit up my insides And illuminated my mind. They'd rather see me suffocate, Choke on my own smoke...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Dec 4, 2015
- 5 min
21
Hold on…you’re telling me that I have been alive for 21 years?! Quite frankly, this fact baffles me. When certain friends tell me that...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Oct 11, 2015
- 1 min
Her
She was perfect Content The others looked on in wonder Four of them barren, large and clumsy Four of them flustered, puny and...
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Rhiannon Hutchings
- Aug 14, 2015
- 1 min
Guilty
'Guilty' was the verdict She had anticipated that answer since the beginning of this treacherous ordeal Tears of agony sprang to her eyes...
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