5446 that’s my number
In the week where an American actress has sued Amazon for $1million damages because it published her age online, it’s time to give note to the simple number of years we’ve been alive. What does it...
View ArticleHomemade or high street?
In these times of austerity I can’t be the only one who feels guilty for buying clothes from big retailers who know all to well how to suck me in with their bright and shiny delights, or what the more...
View ArticleWishful shrinking
I should start by telling you that as I write this, I am sipping on a rather large ginger beer (you know, the proper stuff, with alcohol) and munching on some cheese on toast with Marmite. All while...
View ArticleSave not for a rainy day
I’m not normally one for delayed gratification. Food, especially good-tasting calorie-ridden food, is the obvious example. I’m one of those people who can’t have chocolates, cakes, biscuits or cheese...
View ArticlePlastic surgery
I’m a little judgemental. I have been known to cull people from my life for such ‘crimes’ as lying (including telling me I look fine when the true friend response would have been, “you look a mutant...
View ArticleDoes my bum look old in this?
I realised something recently that unnerved and depressed me – I’m not young anymore. I don’t know when it happened, and I don’t know how it happened, but when I look in the mirror, it’s not me looking...
View ArticleTwenty steps to home hair-colouring
In these hard times (otherwise known as: my money goes on shite, Christ knows what) a modern girl needs to find ways of cutting costs (otherwise known as: there’s a dress I want that I can’t justify)....
View ArticleMake do and mend: The war time approach to fashion
Finding the perfect thing to wear is often a nightmare. Do I need a jacket? Can I walk all day in these heels? Is this too “going out” for work or too “work” for going out? Have I got a VPL, and do I...
View ArticleFatties over there please
I have had disordered eating all my life, I have skirted around binge n purge and come dangerously close to self-harm. I have jumped on the scales 50 times a day, after a poo, no clothes on, first...
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Why I said no to cosmetic surgery
The above is an actual true statement. I’ll start off clarifying that, as everyone I’ve told doesn’t quite believe me, but yip. I said no. And not because of cost (it was free), not because I have the...
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