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the big girl’s guide to keeping cool this summer;
First thing's first: I wear what I like. Nothing in this post should be taken as any indication that I'm bothered by my flabby upper arms, or nervous about having my thunder thighs on display. On those...
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queen of the swingers: my go ape adventure;
I'm going to open this post by asking you to step back in time - to the summer of 1993. That's me on a jungle gym on the beach in Elgin in the north of Scotland, displaying some excellent sartorial...
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staying body positive on your summer holiday;
OR: everything I thought and felt while reading Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls by Jes "The Militant" Baker in a hotel room in Sorrento and on a train to Rome in the summer of 2016. Summer holidays...
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2017: the year of living creatively;
If I all but predicted that 2016 would be a quiet one for me on the professional/self-development front, I guess I don't get to complain when I turned out to be right. While I don't think I was...
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freelance mondays: budgeting tips for savvier saving;
As much as I stand by my raves about flexible working, and my belief that anybody for whom it is an option should look into ways of obtaining a better work-life balance, I'm well aware that I speak...
View Articlean x-phile’s guide to vancouver in 2019;
As the filming location for a big chunk of the greatest TV series of all time, Vancouver has been on my travel wishlist since I was about 13 years old. There was no way I wouldn’t be checking out some...
View Articlemy 37 favourite things about being 37;
Lockdown birthdays might actually be the best birthdays. I drank custom cocktails from The Gate from a ridiculous Mickey Mouse Pride-themed tumbler my sister ordered. I got to see two of my best pals...
View Articleit almost killed me and i will always be thankful for it: my 2020 in music;
Back in October, Fiona Apple – whose Fetch the Bolt Cutters, released in April, captured a particular early pandemic mood – was interviewed by Emily Nussbaum for The New Yorker Festival. “I think we...
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