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out and about: fathers’ day at the st. enoch centre;
What do you get for the man who has everything? It’s a well-worn cliché, and one that crops up around here every Fathers’ Day. It’s not so much that my dad has everything as that… View Full Post The...
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last year’s looks: shopping for glasses online with firmoo;
My first pair of glasses were a bright red, translucent plastic and I could not stand them. I was eight years old when I got them, at that stage in every kid’s life where the… View Full Post The post...
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while i’m away;
As usual, I appear to have hurtled into my summer holiday completely unprepared. I’m writing this post the night before I head down to London to see Taylor Swift for the second time in a… View Full...
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they see me haulin’: a debenhams beauty haul;
It took me a long time before I started actively reaching out to brands and PRs asking if they could add me to their mailing lists/give me free stuff. Part of it was some misguided… View Full Post The...
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show your colours, girls;
Any excuse to play this song again, right? “Do you think we’ll still be friends when we’re old?” “Oh, definitely. And we’ll go on a Saga cruise.” “But it has better have an all-inclusive cocktail…...
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last year’s looks: see with iolla;
There has been a lot of chat about blogger ethics over the last couple of months, from the publication of by the UK’s competition regulator of its report into online reviews and endorsements (which I…...
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last year’s looks: aw15 at debenhams;
While I’d never accuse Urban Decay of forgetting about us old-school fans who have loved them since we first had the money to buy our own makeup, their recent wholehearted embrace of all that is… View...
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last year’s looks: autumn #styleYOUniform with george;
When George at Asda challenged me to spent a week “mixing up my #styleYOUniform”, I figured it was hardly a challenge at all. One week, no jeans… when you work for a big law firm?… View Full Post The...
View Articlea thousand auditions you didn’t quite get through: last year’s festive fifty,...
This year could have been the first that I actually bothered with Boxing Day sales - not because I was mad keen on a bargain, you understand; but because my sister is only home for another four days...
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come on now, let’s fix this mess: last year’s mix, 2015;
I'm writing this having just ordered my first record of the year (Hinds' debut album Leave Me Alone on transparent yellow vinyl, out on Friday) but my current soundtrack is actually the cat, with her...
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2016: the year of living mindfully;
2015 wasn't a bad year in the same way that 2014 was, but it was a funny one. At the beginning of the year, I wrote a list of personal and professional goals at the back of my journal. I smashed all...
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a music lover’s night in glasgow;
So you guys know by now that I have a couple of jobs: an office-based full-time legal journalist job; and freelance journalism - usually, but increasingly not exclusively, arts journalism. It means...
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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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