Meet The New -ism. Plumpism…it’s everywhere

3 MINUTE READ Where have all the plump celebrities gone?  No seriously, where are they? Switch on any British or USA chat show, documentary, drama or news, technology, science, history art, music or comedy programme and EVERYONE is slim. As are are all the other leaders and influencers out there…

Dear Call Centre Staff…Sorry for being a bitch. Sorta.

As we kick off a new year I thought this would be a good time to say sorry to all the call centre operatives that I was sarcastic to or, if I am honest, downright rude to, in 2017. Sorry. It wasn’t me…it was my inner sulky 15-year-old, complete with…

How to Celebrate New Year – Scotland Style

Thanks to Rabbie Burns and his universally sung (and rarely understood) Auld Lang Syne, Scots sorta feel like we invented New Year’s Eve – or Hogmanay – as we call it. Here are some of the strange things we Scots do to welcome in a New Year. We call it…

GUYS: How to buy HER an OMG Christmas Gift SHE’LL love

5 MINUTE READ GALS, feel free to print out, highlight the bits that you like, then leave it near the toilet for him to read…it’ll save him a lot of stressing and you, a lot of disappointment. Hello Boys.  News flash – Christmas is coming and you know what that…

Tracing Gramps…and becoming Irish

4 MINUTE READ  I’m becoming Irish.  To be sure, I’ll still be Scottish and British, but if I can also become Irish it means I’ll still feel European. Ok I admit, that’s quite a lot of nationalities for just one person…but don’t go all judge-y on me. I like to have options…

The 10 Friends Every Midlife Woman Needs

4 MINUTE READ Remember at school when you had a Best Friend (or BFF as they say nowadays). Mine was Karen Berry.  We must have made an odd-looking pair – she was small for her age and looked like Snow White and all the boys liked her and wanted to…

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