*skip to the end if you don’t fancy reading an essay. Whenever people say ‘I have a phobia’, I think the popular assumption is something you probably wouldn’t blame someone for freaking out over. Spiders, enclosed spaces, snakes. Imagine having a panic attack every time your body functions like it’s supposed to. I suppose...
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Finally getting in the habit of blogging a bit more about my cosmetics and beauty product addiction. Good work, me. Anyway, I’ve been steadily trying new products for many years, but I seldom rave about them, so I figured that’s exactly what I’d do since I’m doing the May Challenge. Thus I present, the...
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Whenever people post ‘bucket lists’ or things to do before they die (or turn a certain age) I always feel a little bit deflated that half of them I’ve already done and the other half are things that are very much out of reach. For example, I’m not going to be travelling around the...
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Today is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. Admittedly it crept up on me so I haven’t been able to arrange anything this year, which is a shame as I was really pleased with my ’1k A Day for May’ last year. Nonetheless it doesn’t make today any less important to me.
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It’s almost summer. I can smell it. By that I mean my hayfever has made a flamboyant return, though admittedly I’ve been nowhere near as affected as the poor hubby – his eyes are currently threatening to leap from his skull and go up north to enjoy cooler climes.
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Their names often provoke a sense of anger, particularly when they’re seen trending on Twitter. Liz Jones, Jan Moir, Samantha Brick. Writers for the Daily Mail (a UK newspaper for my friends over the pond) that provoke hugely strong responses with things they write. There are other female columnists for the same newspaper, but...
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“And that’s why I became a rogue demon hunter” – Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, Angel Series 1 If it wasn’t already obvious, I’m a huge fan of pretty much everything Joss Whedon has ever done and most importantly I’m marginally obsessed with Buffyverse. When we got our cats five years ago we named them Oz and...
Read more →Well, the May blogging challenge is three posts a week, so I didn’t fuck up by not posting yesterday. Ha. Been browsing through a lot of the other blogs taking part and there’s two things I notice. First, most of them are across the Atlantic and secondly they are all relatively successful in that...
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Been a bit stuck in terms of blog content recently, and naturally I was worried that this place would become a part of the Internet’s massive graveyeard. Not that I have a massive amount of readers, but hey-ho, I like to have this little grassy patch on which to spout opinions and the like....
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For those that don’t like my blog entries that prattle on about beauty stuff, click away now. I don’t have a massively impressive track record with hyped beauty products. MAC Prep & Prime, Bobbi Brown Gel Liner, ANY Maybelline or Rimmel foundation, liquid liner in genreal. Then, there are some products that prove time...
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On Tuesday 16th April, at the age of five, our cat Spike curled up on my husband’s lap and fell asleep. Only, he wouldn’t be waking up. Euthanasia is a hotly debated topic when dealing with humans, but it’s fairly simple with animals. If they stand to suffer, we can choose to not allow...
Read more →Those close to my husband and I may remember that three years ago Spike, one of our beloved cats, suffered severe acute kidney failure after getting a blockage in his bladder. He was in and out of the vets for weeks before he was finally admitted into Cambridge Small Animal Hospital for an operation...
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