How often do you stop and think to yourself that you wish the heating bill was a little cheaper? Most people know what this feels like, so you are not alone. Fortunately, there are actually plenty of alternative options available which you can consider using instead of the electricity or gas you probably currently use. […]
Change, Change, Change… Change of Life
What happens when you trap almost 500 middle-aged women into a confined space for a couple of hours? Wherever you are on the oestrogen spectrum, you’d be inclined to think that the outcome would be, to say the least, tetchy. Especially if some of the women had had their gin confiscated. But you’d be wrong. […]
A fine bed
A poem inspired by Fionaoutdoors and her adventure in the furniture shop. A fine bed It will last 20 years, they said. This bed. Like a galleon, strong enough to sail through your stormy nights, safely to the dawns. The wood got ready in forests. Sprouting and branching while you were still rolling through the […]
Is it time to ditch the diet?
Proposing a Bechdel Test for journalism.
I still get cross thinking about it. The story in The Times about spectacularly successful and influential Helena Morrissey and how she copes with her nine children and the fact that her husband is of the ‘house’ persuasion. A successful person with quite a few children is happy to leave them in the care of […]