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Menstrual cups are not the bad guys

March 15, 2020 By Ellen Leave a Comment

I was out last night – past midnight – with drinks and dancing and wearing a frock. It was a lovely, sparkly do and all the merrier for the sensation that it was the last hurrah for a while anyway. So that was all tremendous, even if I’m ever so slightly fuzzy today. It doesn’t […]

On time: a post that gets dark quite quickly

January 26, 2020 By Ellen 1 Comment

I feel such a sense of loss when I think of the great, unwritten poems that took a backseat to polished floors – Brigid Schulte There’s an essay doing the rounds, it’s called A Woman’s Greatest Enemy? A Lack Of Time For Herself and it’s by Brigid Schulte. It took me days to find the […]

I’m not an expert, but here’s what I know about imposter syndrome

October 13, 2019 By Ellen 2 Comments

Here’s what happens to me: I have a perfectly lovely chat with someone I like very much. There may be laughter and understanding. Then I hear something. It’s not my friend, it’s another voice. That voice says things like ‘she’s only saying that to be polite’ or ‘she doesn’t really think that it’s just you’re […]

Where are older women hiding? A challenge…

June 26, 2019 By Ellen Leave a Comment

I know it’s a bit of a joke – hit your middle years and you become invisible. No cat calls, no unwanted attention, in fact, no attention at all one way or the other. It’s a superpower of sorts – we can become anything we want, from spies to leaders of industry. So far, so […]

Things we learned from a brief trip to Aviemore

June 25, 2019 By Ellen Leave a Comment

The weekend before last saw Boy Three and I off on a micro adventure and it was educational. Time is not a fixed thing. Once you start thinking about time as a linear, measurable thing, that’s when the trouble starts. You think it’s all neatly split up into seconds, days and minutes. Then, suddenly, you […]