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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First make-up post in a loooong time. It’s only in the past few years that I’ve started to rely on neutral eyeshadows for daily wear, I’d always been a bit of a magpie for bright colours. As with many, it was the Urban Decay Naked Palette that changed the game for me. Versatile, beautiful...
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I used to be perfectly content with my mediocrity. It was alright that I couldn’t bake aesthetically perfect brownies, take an evocatively moody picture of a tree or re-purpose driftwood into a fully functioning dressing table. Then, along came Pinterest. First of all, if you don’t know what Pinterest is, run. Save yourselves before...
Read more →I’ve always wondered how, as an emetophobic, I’d handle having a stomach virus. This weekend I discovered the answer to that is REALLY, REALLY BADLY. The husband had flu-like symptoms on Thursday, and despite obsessive handwashing I felt pretty rough by Friday night. Saturday through Sunday then became what can only be described as...
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Well, there went February. So I haven’t been very disciplined when it comes to regular blogging of late. Bad blogger, bad. I will withdraw some of my privileges in penance. I’ve had fairly good reason to be fair. Freelance work has picked up a tad, and it’s taking up quite a bit of my time....
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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...
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Whenever I’ve been nominated for anything in the past, it’s usually been the nominated person to drive to Tesco to get more wine. Or maybe the nominated person to keep score when we play Pictionary. All very important tasks you understand, but I recently got a nomination that kicks ALL the asses of those...
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Isn’t it amazing how a picture can stir up so very many emotions? A single snapshot in time, multiple evocations. Sometimes we don’t even realise what has been captured until we look closer. This happened to me recently. At my wedding back in October, my father-in-law was taking plenty of pictures, which we gleefully...
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One of the worst thing about being unemployed is explaining why you’re unemployed. It’s quite simple for me really, I wasn’t happy and this was largely because my Dad was very seriously ill and I wanted to be more available for family time. There’s no subterfuge in that, it’s a fairly genuine reason. Could do without...
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