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Becoming the Fitbit family in an attempt to stop things sagging further

April 16, 2016 By Ellen

In another of those moments  they don’t tell you about, I found myself gazing at the bathroom mirror trying to work out if my earlobes had begun to droop or not. It turns out that time is something of a bitch, or maybe it’s gravity that the real villain. Either way, there’s no doubt about […]

Filed Under: My Life, other things I have learned Tagged With: ageing, ears, family, Fitbit, humour, My Life, sagging, Something happened in my life

Why the Duchess of Cambridge and I are so similar

April 12, 2016 By Ellen

Duchess of Cambridge

  So Kate is doing the Indian tour and what a lovely lot of outfits she’s chosen. Tasteful and appropriate, for the most part. Even the “common touch” cheap ones. I do the same thing… pop on something from George at Asda just so that everyone can see I’m, you know, one of them. Then […]

Filed Under: My Life, other things I have learned, The World Tagged With: children, Duchess of Cambridge, feet, humour, India, My Life, something happened in my world, The World

Ski-ing again after 10 years – things I learned

March 20, 2016 By Ellen

Sloping off. On the piste. Whatever ski-related cliché you fancy – that was me the other day. I ski-ved off for a ski break with Fiona Outdoors to Morzine. Apart from the wee sojourn to Glencoe which doesn’t really count and a couple of runs on a dry slope in Llandudno (like you do), it […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: family, France, in my life, Morzine, My Life, ski, skiing, Something happened in my life, travel

Say I don’t to Leap Year sexism

February 29, 2016 By Ellen

Leap Year. Cue swoopy violin music and soft focus pinkness The magical once-in-a-four-year opportunity to ask a man to marry you. How romantic and wonderful. What are you waiting for, ladies? Er.. Wait a minute. Unplug the mushy stringed instrument sounds and the identikit roses-for-lovers nonsense. What this is saying is that the only time […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 29 February., feminism, in my life, in the world, Leap Year, on my mind, proposal, Sexism, something happened in my world, women

Why would you want to turn back time?

January 30, 2016 By Ellen

wrinkled apple

We’re used to outlandish claims from the beauty industry, and of them making up problems and products to fix them. So many cosmetics companies (or, at least, their marketing chaps) like to suggest that their overpriced unguents will turn back time. Time travel, if you will, to younger days. Like a Tardis, I suppose, in […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, Uncategorized Tagged With: ageing, aging, beauty, Cher, humour, Sexism, Something happened in my life, something happened in my world, time

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