This year I’m going to Glastonbury. I am part of the chosen few that secured a ticket. I should be overjoyed, which I am, but for some reason I keep thinking of the fact that I’ll be 23 when Taylor Swift tells me how great it was to be ’22’.
Read More‘When mentioned Bermuda is always attributed to the mysterious part of the sea that’s responsible for ship and air plane disappearances.’ But there’s so much more to Bermuda than that… and what's so interesting is how the location has shaped the residential buildings. An incredibly well informed and sophisticated piece by Carrie Cross.
Read More“OK, so I have a really scary question to ask you”. Holding my breath, my dignity and my stomach muscles firmly in place, I looked at the man I’d been friends with for the last 20 years.
Read MoreAre more young people getting involved in progressive activism or is it just a trending topic?
Read MoreA brown skirt suit, Jesus, what was I thinking? I thought borrowing something smartish from my big sister would help, and maybe it did, but it absolutely wasn’t me! I felt like a total fraud. I sat on the coach at Maidenhead bus station thinking it was the start of the rest of my life! That 11 quid fare was my ticket to freedom! It was the summer of 1989.
Read MoreCandle lit table in an Italian restaurant. The soft glow of the flame creates dappled shadows around our wine glasses - mine, half empty, his, near gone. His hand slowly glides across the table cloth, gently falling on top of my palm. He looks up at me, burning curiosity in his cool eyes, “so”, he says, “tell me about your family?”
Read MoreThe thing about democracy is that more than half the people are getting what they want, more than half the time. Or that’s what American journalist E.B. White thinks. But let’s dig below the surface a little bit… Is that what’s actually going on?
Read More"Cartoons are not art."
Cue the sound of my heart, hopes and dreams shattering into a million pieces.
Fourteen-year-old me was being told that my kind of art didn't count.
Read MoreWhen my son was four we spread ourselves out on the floor that Valentine’s Day and made the most ridiculous mess with glitter, glue, feathers and red paint, stuck to a massive stack of cards… I asked him “Who is your first card for?”. “It’s for me Mummy, I love myself first”. The wisdom of babes, indeed.
Read MoreNo, I do not want to sleep with my male best friend. No, I do not want to date them either. No, I do not think we are destined to be together… This is not a rom com.
Read MoreWe were lucky, we had a healthy baby. That baby is 6”3 and 21 years old now and he’s done a little experimenting of his own. He has (I suppose) been as honest with me as I was (ahem, highlights only) with my Mum. His stint was very short lived but he asked me questions, for advice, and I readily gave it.
Read MoreI don’t need to defend classical music: with streaming services and radio, accessibility to classical music is at its height. Cheap tickets also mean that live music is not reserved for the elite. However, as demonstrated by a rather strange recent article in The Guardian which claimed that classical music is elitist, the genre still falls on deaf ears.
Read MoreSlip-ups in mind, I have learnt a few things and the best piece of advice I could give anyone attempting a drastic dietary change is to always plan ahead! Research alternatives! Read food labels! Or you’ll find yourself sitting on the kitchen floor stuffing your face with cheddar wondering how it all went so wrong.
Read MoreHaving a side hustle is the first step towards this, but it also gives you something to focus on outside of your full-time job. When I leave my office at 5pm, I leave all the stress, worry and problems of that job behind, and I come home to my side hustle. Its taught me that your job should be just that – a job, and not your whole life.
Read MoreMy Mum died very suddenly in January, 12 years ago. She went to the doctor on the Friday, got taken straight into hospital and died on the Monday. For years before that, I worried about how I would cope when she died, how I would be able to function in a world that didn’t contain her.
Read MoreAnalysing one’s passions is a bit like going for a job interview: from day-to-day your passions simmer under the surface of your life, present but unspoken, occasionally rising up and presenting themselves to the world in glorious, untamed manifestations of self-expressionism.
Read MoreNaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, a concept invented in 1999 and has since grown into a not-for-profit charitable organisation which helps communities in the USA with writing fluency and education. They host several events a year, the largest and most well-known of which is NaNoWriMo itself, in which participants are challenged to write a 50,000 word novel across the span of November.
Read MoreI thought it would be helpful to provide the couple with some potential career moves that would allow them to live a comfortable, yet modest, lifestyle and raise their son (seventh in line to the throne, no less) as best they can.
Read MoreI found myself really questioning if I was f-ing the whole experience up. Was I missing out on opportunities because I’d chosen to do things this way? Was I working too much? It’s not like I could afford not to.
Read MoreI’d like you, reader, to bare in mind that I am giving my perspective here as a representative of those who have experienced disordered eating - feelings of guilt, shame and of greed all attributed to food, body image; to exercise.
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