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...
Read more →I was going to be a terribly predictive bore and blog about Margaret Thatcher, but decided against it because my knowledge of her legacy is scant at best. I was born in the early 1980s, so I don’t remember the anger that quite clearly stills runs white hot with some. Here is what I...
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I am so convinced that the list of things that piss me off will continue to grow enormously that I gave this entry a number. I estimate I’ll be on ‘Irksome Things #49′ by the end of the year. It’s not that I like being angry, I just seem to find it’s my default setting with...
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I need some help, because something has been troubling me enough that I feel the need to blog about it on a Sunday night when I should be watching a film, stuffing my face with chocolate. Cuddling with your partner. It’s lovely, yes? Intimate, cosy and warm. I love getting down to a bloody...
Read more →Despite sometimes taking to Twitter like a bitter middle aged woman that’s had a couple of bottles of wine, I’m generally not an angry person. I sometimes have short bursts of fury, usually aimed at the complete idiocy of whatever z-list celebrity is doing something heinous this week. I realised today though, that there...
Read more →This is ALWAYS going to be an opinion divider and something that I find quite difficult to talk about, but here goes. I am fat. I’m overweight. I’m chubby. A big girl. These four descriptions are regularly used to describe me. But, not by anyone else. By myself. Show me my stats on paper...
Read more →So it’s just over a month now until I get married. I’ve never really been overly extravagant about being female. I mean, I really don’t like the colour pink, glittery things frighten me a little bit and small yappy-type dogs that go in handbags make me believe in the devil. But there’s something...
Read more →I’ve been thinking about gamers recently. Not just because I’m marrying one, either. This is more to do with the full-on stereotypical nerds that generally don’t interact beyond work/studying and their gaming life. There’s a million jokes about them. Virgins, nerds that are scared of daylight, forever alone and the rest. I don’t buy...
Read more →Everybody is saying that it is a good time to be British. I can see their point; the Olympics thus far has been a tremendous success. The Opening Ceremony was fantastic. In my opinion. Of course a lot of people think it was too British, too over the top, too this too that. I...
Read more →*There’s a possibility that ‘sedated’ is a complete lie and I’ll fire off on a rant at some point. So. Summer’s pretty much landed in the UK, evident by the smell of BBQs, suncream and the bare man-chests. There’s also the blue skies and heat, of course. But it’s far more amusing to guess...
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