EDIT: When I sat down to write this, I planned to bring it round to some inspiring conclusion about doing what you fancy rather than what looks flash, but I forgot about that bit. Sorry. There’s another tricky thing to negotiate in the office. Or at least it feels that way to me. It’s […]
How to Change Your Career as a New Mother
Becoming a mother for the first time is a transformative experience in many ways, and lots of women find themselves looking at all aspects of their life from a new perspective. This is particularly true when it comes to making career choices as maternity leave gives us plenty of time to step back and reevaluate […]
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. […]
Best Christmas Decorations to Turn Your Home into a Festive Wonderland
With Christmas looming on the horizon, homeowners across the country will be pulling out every stop to get their houses ready for the season. After all, Christmas just doesn’t feel like Christmas unless everything is suitably decorated. Nowadays, we’re spoilt for choice when it comes to festive ornaments. In fact, sometimes the number of options […]
Behold! The Christmas jumper is back
They are back. As well as all the usual seasonal unnecessariness, shops are currently flogging festive jumpers. You know the ones, they were almost mythical at first. Not ever seen on real people… in public. Colin Firth wore one but only as a device to show that the wearer was prepared to sacrifice style for […]
Shopping for Number One – Great Gifts to Buy Yourself
As annoying as it might be that Christmas starts earlier every year, once it has begun, there’s no stopping it. Suddenly, we’re all on a frighteningly fast train hurtling towards the big day. No sooner have we started to spot a few Christmas cards in stores than lights and decorations are lining the streets. Suddenly, […]
Chest hair: to baldly go… or not
Sean Connery defies description Tom Jones is not unusual… or at least he wasn’t Selleck looks splendid Starsky’s chest great The late George Michael’s hair raising days were yet to come Should men remove the hair from their chests? Arguably what happens inside a chap’s shirt is entirely his own […]
The real horrors of Hallowe’en
It’s become traditional that I rant about Christmas starting too soon – which it does – but have you noticed how Hallowe’en is doing the same. There’s a house along the road with a pumpkin on the step already – almost a fortnight too early. How ripe is that going to be by the big […]