by Nicola C. Manasseh | Mar 22, 2024 | Personal Stories
Call me behind time but I only just watched the 2020 Oscar winning Nomadland. What I love about this beautifully scripted and superbly filmed movie is how it shows the power of a kind community to help the heart broken protagonist, played by Francis McDormand, to keep...
by Nicola C. Manasseh | Feb 22, 2024 | Personal Stories
I’m a hyper local lass. It could be a habit left over from lockdowns, but truth is everything I need is in Belsize Park, Hampstead, Camden or on the Finchley Road. In the spring and summertime, I might not even bother to go to a nearby park to get my nature...
by Nicola C. Manasseh | Jan 14, 2024 | Personal Stories
Rather than thinking forwards with New Year solutions, for this New Letter I’m going to look back in kindness and consider what I’ve achieved these last twelve months. There were the work achievements – such as making more editions of In The Square...
by Nicola C. Manasseh | Oct 24, 2023 | Personal Stories
I’ve just recovered from an inflammation which forced me to spend a week in bed and only go out for food essentials, despite the early October t-shirt weather which I really wanted to be in. I was on antibiotics which felt like a big deal as it’s only the second time...
by Nicola C. Manasseh | Apr 21, 2023 | Personal Stories
It’s five years since I first had the idea for a local print magazine for Belsize Park. I was on one of those going-nowhere lockdown walks when I chanced upon a celebrity comedian and after a short exchange to congratulate him on being so funny, I walked on, wishing...
