It was a sunny day towards the end of the last century. I was leaving my job – again – to go off and mess about on boats. (I did this several times until motherhood put a stop to it.) My colleagues at the newspaper I’d been working at had clubbed together to get me […]
Is the tits off page three campaign a bust?
Observations from a former tabloid journalist who has breasts. There’s a new campaign to get the tits off page three of The Sun, details of it have crossed my desk several times in the past couple of days. It’s nothing new, the arguments have trundled on since the first time The Sun showed a picture […]
How to feel a right tit AKA be breast aware
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/20788253 w=400&h=222]Breast Check – Breast awareness is as easy as TLC (Touch Look Check) from Breakthrough Breast Cancer on Vimeo. Be breast aware. Ha ha ha. It seems impossible not to be breast aware. Bosoms are everywhere; boobs spill out at us, on posters, nearly in frocks and on the fronts of every celeb […]
Dangers, the sock pair machine and breasts
Things I’ve learned from my children today. Always check a room for baby hazards. The kitchen table is exactly at the forehead height of a seven-month-old in a baby walker. No, we can’t just do the job in the simplest manner. So Sock sorting (a fun-filled weekly event in our house) began. Then Boy One […]