“How many envelopes does it take to win an election?…”-Placement, Days 3&4

Today was much like the day before … and the day before that. There was election expenses to make known to the world and I felt like I had a huge responsibility on my shoulders. Paul was an elderly Ben Parker and I was the prepubescent Peter Parker, infected with the gall of a journalist [...]

Crack-down on Councillors as we examine their elections expenses-Placement, Day 2

Today was a bit of a mish-mash of occurences… Having been unable to squirm out of my schedule of ‘slave labour‘ i.e. work, I spent 5 hours of the beginning of my day operating a till and tending to the general groans of complaint issuing from the front of the Customer Service desk. When I [...]

“Read all about it! crime, crackpots, car washes … oh! and a bit on the Council.”-Placement, Day 1

Now I’m über ‘queasy’. If I even get a whiff of a paper cut I’m off. Flicking past Holby City, Children’s Hospital and Bear Grylls with a lightning reaction that Jackie Chan would be proud of is something I’m toying with the idea of exploiting financially when the student loan gets a bit low… Therefore, [...]

Editor: “hey, come have a look at the cover for the next issue..” Journo: “WOW. Is that a unicorn cat?!”-Placement, Day 4

Today marked the end of my first week at SUPERSUPER, and a subsequent lie-in tomorrow morning. I couldn’t wait! However, my day didn’t start as well as I’d have hoped… I obviously hadn’t got the memo for the ‘National Foreign Schools Tour of London’ that ensued around what would have to be the only tube [...]

“Suits you Sir. Would you like fries with that?”-Placement, Day 3

I awoke yet again this morning at the obscene hour of 6am to the ‘cup cake-clad’ Katy Perry, warbling California Gurls, as my iPhone lit up like Blackpool Illuminations…following a much-needed day off yesterday. I’d only done 2 days on placement so far but it had really taken it out of me. Used to bombing [...]

“When will you pay me?” say the bells of Old Bailey. “When I grow rich” say the bells of Shoreditch-Placement, Day 2

Now. When Dom told me to wear comfy shoes for my two-week stint, as ‘I would be doing a lot of walking’, me being…well, ‘me’ assumed the term ‘comfy’ meant ‘on trend, light grey ballerina-style flats with cute studding detail, purchased at the bargain basement bounty of £6′. Apparently not. What he REALLY meant to [...]

Model: “Do i look like a mermaid?” Photographer: “No you look like a bohemian fish on a stool.”-Placement, Day 1″

And so my epic placement in the ‘big smoke‘ begins… Armed with a railcard (that has cost my doting parentals so much, we now have shares in London Midland!), and with a belly full of nothing other than butterflies…I caught my first train of the day. On arriving at Birmingham New Street, (after an unnerving [...]