Bee Waits For No One
Scottish writer based in Glasgow
food

Taste of Summer with Iberica

Look, I get it. I took have been trawling SkyScanner for cheap breaks over on the old continent. And as always most (not all, but most) of my travel is centred around food. In lieu of a trip to Spain,…
fashion

Costume to couture: Behind Scottish Opera’s La Traviata

I didn’t expect there to be as much cleavage. I mean, okay, La Traviata is a sexy opera. It’s practically Moulin Rouge. It’s the opera that made Julia Robert cry in Pretty Woman. The lead? Is a courtesan. In Paris.…

I didn't expect there to be as much cleavage. I mean, okay, La Traviata is a sexy opera. It's practically Moulin Rouge. It's the opera that made Julia Robert cry in Pretty Woman. The lead? Is a courtesan. In Paris. Of course it's a sexy opera. But I didn't expect there to be as much cleavage. Or as much bustle. Fashion it turns out it even more circular than I thought. And the late 1800s loved a bitta bustle.
food

A return to hotel dining with Malmaison

Hotel dining can often get the short shrift. Especially when you’re in a city like Glasgow that has a near constant rotation of new restaurant openings.  And I get it. Outside of The Big Smoke, if you’ve not got a…
food

Hungry? Let’s Try Ardnamurchan Glasgow

Ardnamurchan seems to have missed the Great 2017 Glasgow restaurant hype train, but that doesn’t mean this unassuming newbie based in the heart of the cities theatre land shouldn’t be at least somewhere on your foodie bucket list this year.…
glasgow

A Night at the Opera

I’d never really “done” Opera.  It always felt very….inaccessible? If anything, I’d absorbed any operatic knowledge through cultural osmosis, using Pretty Woman, Anastasia and Bugs Bunny as my cultural touchstones. From that I garnered a few things fairly quickly. Opera…
food

Time to Try Chaophraya

It’s all very big. Which shouldn’t come as much surprise. Popular Thai chain Chaophraya cater in creating dramatic destination dining across Europe and the former Royal Academy of Music and Drama has been their home since they came to Glasgow.…
food

The Great British Chippie with Six By Nico

I don’t think I’ve seen my news feed so excited about a restaurant launch, since, well, ever. But then, a restaurant that changes every six weeks with menus inspired by places and memories? Who can blame them? Six By Nico…
beauty

Too Faced: Totally Cute

I have a palette problem. There is nothing I love more than playing about with eyeshadow. I’ve built up quite the collection of nudes and smokes so it was time to dive in with something completely different. The Totally Cute…
beauty

Urban Decay: Lipsticks are my Vice

I’d go outside without foundation before I went without lipstick. It’s a safe guard. An armour. There’s something about a slick of red lipstick that makes my back a little straighter, my head a little higher and my voice a…


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