BiPolar and Me
Diagnosing somebody under the blanket term of depression and handing them a pill is like shooting in the dark and hoping the bullet will find its target. Which is why, every time I read about depressi...
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Editorial - Wellbeing
Scent In The Sun
For me, there are scents which are the equivalent of black opaque tights – and those which are broderie Anglaise skirts, or floaty chiffon dresses. And, just as you wouldn’t want to w...
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How To Not Look Corporate
You don’t need me to tell you that in 2016, a woman wearing a pair of closed toe flats to go to work and being told to change out of them and buy a shoe with a minimum 2 inch heel so she ca...
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Summer Feet
Summer is ‘happy’ season for feet. Encased in boots, trainers and lace-ups for – oh, probably nine months of the year, in this country – we get to experience the bliss of wrigg...
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Lists
Anybody else out there a lister? Not an A or a B lister (unless it’s buy milk) but every damn letter in the alphabet right down to “take trousers to dry cleaners to get Zipper mended.&rdqu...
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Just Say No
Is there a word that is harder to say than ‘no? Small and so very loaded. And yet, it’s a word which we aren’t saying nearly enough. It’s taken me a while to get there but now...
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