About Me

About me…
Well what do you want to know?

Lets start with the basics…

I don’t put gumbles in jam tins! So if you are of a bottersnike disposition, please click away now!

Name: Mary Stokes
Age: 26
Occupation: Failed journalist. Internet Geek. Digital Marketeer (not entirely sure how that happened….)

I always have the intention to bring this blog bang up to date, but with most things which don’t have a deadline, it gets pushed under the carpet for a later date and I begin the next task (namely job hunting). So apologies if you have found yourself amongst my ramblings, they will be updated soon…

To be honest, that is probably all you need to know, but since it is customary to share more than you probably should online, here’s a little bit more detail.

This blog began as a compulsory course task and two years ago, when I graduated with an MA in Multimedia Broadcast Journalism,  I dared to believe that my  journalist dream was finally within my grasp. But after 13 months of fighting against everyone else who had also graduated, filling in application form after application form with no response and gradually becoming poorer as I volunteered, interned and did work placements everywhere I could, I accepted that, for now it wasn’t going to happen.

Instead I discovered a love/ flair for digital and the web, which landed me paid employment and which I hope to, one day, mould into a career.

OK right back to the blog. As it stands at the moment, all of these posts were written during the aforementioned job-hunting/ journalism training time. And so you have probably noticed a number of common themes by now – music, the environment, and politics being the 3 most common categories. I am very passionate about protecting the planet from the more destructive tendencies of Western Society and I have been known in the past to wage war against housemates who point blank refused to recycle. With regards my political views, I do not affiliate myself with any particular political party – I rely very heavily on my conscience when making decisions or forming opinions. Having said that I tend much more towards the left than the right and I am most definitely pro-Europe!