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Madonna. Breaking the Rules.
Posted on 28th March 2016
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Embrace the Shame
Posted on 21st March 2015
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More Than Make Up
Posted on 9th December 2014
About six months ago I was out for lunch with a friend. Her skin looked great and her make-up was amazing. My skin looked like a slightly greying face-flannel that’s been through too many washes. As a working-mother of three I have felt recently that I don’t really have any time for the make-up and skin-care shenanigans of yesteryear. I’d lost the thrill and excitement I had at 14 when boots la...
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Valentine’s Day Massacre
Posted on 18th February 2014
One Valentine’s night my husband and I did what couples do on Valentine’s Day and went out for dinner. The food was good and the company was excellent however we spent most of the evening laughing our legs off at couples trying not to bicker and find things to say to each other on this the high holy day of all things romantic. We don’t do the dinner thing so much now. Past Valentine’s Days...
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Gone Photo Shopping
Posted on 21st January 2014
Lena Dunham made the cover of US Vogue. How amazing is that? Anna Wintour is notoriously picky about who goes on the cover of Vogue. She is tiny, get up at 5am to play tennis and is a ruthless editor. Or so I’m told. I don’t know a vast amount about US Vogue for a couple of reasons : 1) I’m from the UK and live there 2) I like fashion but I’m of that part of the population who doesn’...
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Posted on 8th November 2013
"This is my friend Charlie and his partner Cameron and this is Catherine who is the mother of their children” It doesn’t strike me as a weird introduction but the person I was talking to found it "terribly modern”. I was amused and we started talking about how many divorced people were sitting round the table. I have been through divorce – my own, my parents. Many of my friends ha...
Read the full articleCar Trolls
Posted on 20th August 2013
I have been just as baffled as everyone else to see recent events unfold on Twitter. I understand that some people find putting a woman on a banknote may be offensive. I don’t understand why they think that. The Queen has been on them for years and presumably they are fine with that. A woman who is there as a result of an accident of birth is fine, but they have a problem with a woman being on a banknote to c...
Read the full articleReluctant Feminist
Posted on 17th June 2013
A few years ago I would rather have admitted to being a Justin Bieber fan than a feminist. To me the term "feminist” was someone who banged on about "causes” and "campaigns” and looked a lot more like Germaine Greer than Angelina Jolie. They were feminists because they had to be right? I am experiencing a shift. A pretty sharp shift. I am baffled and perplexed at the world we live in...
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