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The Guardian has said that The Handmaid’s Tale, which aired for the first time last night on Channel 4, is “The best thing you’ll watch all year”. I beg to differ. Not because I have seem something better, but because I won’t be watching the Handmaid’s Tale. Why? Well for a number of reasons. It is clearly an extraordinary book. People discuss it enthusiastically at length, picking over the
Social media and rolling news channels have a lot to answer for. For the most part I am a huge fan of both, loving the fact I can feel connected to people and events all over the world from the small phone in my hand. That I can Skype my parents to show them how my granny has settled into her new care home after they moved her
Did you know that either of those things existed? Well come on, keep up. They do indeed and the second one just happens to have just been awarded to a very good friend of mine, Nickie from I Am Typecast, so I grabbed the opportunity to have a chat with her about the title. And thought I would share with you some of my current favourite notebooks. Like Nickie
I bloody hate that expression. I think it’s awful but I can’t think of anything as succinct as that to make a decent title for this post. “If you aren’t married to the person we are inviting then you will not be invited to our wedding” doesn’t trip off the tongue as easily as the above. Which is why it is clearly the headline the tabloids are going with for
Driving is a big thing in our family. I mean a seriously big thing. Not in a “we need to get to from A to B” type of way but more of a “where can we make B this weekend?” As an example, twelve years ago my dad decided, with a group of mates, to drive to Sydney. Yes. That Sydney. From London. It would
Twice this week I have raged at headlines online. Headlines with information that just isn’t relevant quite frankly, and twice it has made actually shout out loud. Once instance made me swear on Twitter, and that rarely happens. The first was the recent story about Aaron Lennon, the footballer. A man who was in need of some support for a mental health issue. What is the headline we see? “£55,000
One of the things I love most about binge watching TV programmes on platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video is that there aren’t advert breaks. Adverts in the middle of a top class drama kill it for me, just as we get gripped with the action it comes to a thundering halt and we are suddenly confronted with an advert for loo roll or butter. With Sky+
Which is why I haven’t recently. I have had so many blog posts I have wanted to write, and some I have needed to write, but even those I have started have then been shelved. Either I can’t find the time to sit and write them or I haven’t known were to begin even when I have had the time. So I haven’t. Mostly because this week
With summer comes a new feel. Gone are the warm, dark shades we like to associate with autumn and winter and in are bright, light colours that give a fresh and airy sensation leaving us waking up happy and ready to face the day. But, before you pick up that paintbrush and start tackling your bedroom walls, have a look at our five simple steps to get your bedroom summer
In the words of Alice Cooper, School’s out, and not just for the summer, but for ever FOREVER. Ellie, the youngest of my three is now doing her final exams at school and then having a year out before embarking on Uni so for now, school is out. I wrote in July last year about my feelings on not having to do a school run anymore when Ellie past
Or it certainly should be. There was so much for us to consider when we bought our house together twelve years ago. Not just the legal side of the actual house purchase but we weren’t married at that point so we had to consider what we do, heaven forbid, we split up. Not something anybody ever really wants to consider when moving in together for the first time, I
A bad hair day can really hamper your confidence and make the rest of your day seem gloomy. Having a rubbish hair day can also stop you socialising or being spontaneous, simply because you don’t want people to see you and your misbehaving hair. It doesn’t have to be this way though, with these simple tips, you should never have a bad hair day again. Stay stocked up Running out