The Eat Out to Help Out scheme started on Monday 3rd August, with restaurants, cafes and coffee shops able to offer great discounts on food and drink. The scheme has been put into place by the UK Government in a bid to help out the hospitality trade, which suffered hugely through the pandemic lockdown. Running
If the violence with which I have to twerk just to get my skinny jeans over my derrière is anything to go by, I’ve put on weight over lockdown. I’m not overly panicked by it and can identify my incessant baking as a pretty definite reason. I’m not normally guilty of schadenfreude, but the fact
Over the last few years the idea of body positivity has really taken off and entered the mainstream. You only have to search the hashtag on Instagram to be met with millions of pictures of people of all shapes and sizes. But you know what? I have a problem with this body positivity thing. Before
Friend – “What’s it like to have CF?” Me – “What’s it like to be healthy?” Can a normal healthy person really say what it’s like to be a healthy person? Can I really say what it’s like to have CF? This CF life is my normal, as you being healthy is your normal. With having
Black Lives Matter is a movement – not a moment. Which is exactly why it needs continuous support. It has been moving to see the huge amount of people taking part in anti-racism protests. Yet the buzz around Black Lives Matter seems to have quietened and there is still a long way to go. Institutional
As much as I’m looking forward to getting back to normal after four months of living in lockdown, the thought of it makes me anxious. I’ve always been a worrier since I was a child. When I was little, I was given a book called ‘Worried Arthur’, which was the story of a little penguin
27 years ago, I was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, an progressive illness which had the life span of 18 years old at the time in 1993. Since then, the median age of life expectancy has risen, treatments have changed, new medicine has been introduced to my body by the year and there is still no
Is this the new normal? Working from home, having proper lunch breaks away from my desk, counting my calories and becoming a morning person – has this whole lockdown situation been making me a better person or am I overthinking everything to try to keep myself busy to not actually realize what’s going on in
Kanye West for USA Presidency If you have a profile on any social media platform you have no doubt seen meme’s and video clips of Kanye West’s Political Rally speech in South Carolina recently. What you may or may not have seen is the full 48 minutes of Kanye discussing all things ‘political’. Most of
There’s nothing Britain loves more than a royal wedding. But even princesses have to swap multi-million pound celebrations for something more modest in the midst of a pandemic. On the 17th of July Princess Beatrice married her own Prince Charming Italian property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints, Windsor Great
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Years ago I worked with a girl that had even less of a filter than me. For the purposes of...
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We don’t want to let Coronavirus stop all the fun, so instead of our monthly meet-ups, we’re going to host...
We don’t want to let Coronavirus stop all the fun, so instead of our monthly meet-ups, we’re going to host...
The Eat Out to Help Out scheme started on Monday 3rd August, with restaurants, cafes and coffee shops able to offer great discounts on food and drink. The scheme has been put into place by the UK Government in a bid to help out the hospitality trade, which suffered hugely through the pandemic lockdown. Running every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday…
If the violence with which I have to twerk just to get my skinny jeans over my derrière is anything to go by, I’ve put on weight over lockdown. I’m not overly panicked by it and can identify my incessant baking as a pretty definite reason. I’m not normally guilty of schadenfreude, but the fact that lockdown weight gain seems…
Over the last few years the idea of body positivity has really taken off and entered the mainstream. You only have to search the hashtag on Instagram to be met with millions of pictures of people of all shapes and sizes. But you know what? I have a problem with this body positivity thing. Before I start, I should say…
Friend - "What's it like to have CF?" Me - "What's it like to be healthy?" Can a normal healthy person really say what it's like to be a healthy person? Can I really say what it's like to have CF? This CF life is my normal, as you being healthy is your normal. With having CF, I'll never know what…
Black Lives Matter is a movement - not a moment. Which is exactly why it needs continuous support. It has been moving to see the huge amount of people taking part in anti-racism protests. Yet the buzz around Black Lives Matter seems to have quietened and there is still a long way to go. Institutional racism is engrained into our…
As much as I’m looking forward to getting back to normal after four months of living in lockdown, the thought of it makes me anxious. I’ve always been a worrier since I was a child. When I was little, I was given a book called ‘Worried Arthur’, which was the story of a little penguin who worried about everything, even…
27 years ago, I was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, an progressive illness which had the life span of 18 years old at the time in 1993. Since then, the median age of life expectancy has risen, treatments have changed, new medicine has been introduced to my body by the year and there is still no sign of a cure -…
Is this the new normal? Working from home, having proper lunch breaks away from my desk, counting my calories and becoming a morning person - has this whole lockdown situation been making me a better person or am I overthinking everything to try to keep myself busy to not actually realize what’s going on in my head? I can’t really…
Kanye West for USA Presidency If you have a profile on any social media platform you have no doubt seen meme’s and video clips of Kanye West’s Political Rally speech in South Carolina recently. What you may or may not have seen is the full 48 minutes of Kanye discussing all things ‘political’. Most of what Kanye said had a…
There’s nothing Britain loves more than a royal wedding. But even princesses have to swap multi-million pound celebrations for something more modest in the midst of a pandemic. On the 17th of July Princess Beatrice married her own Prince Charming Italian property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints, Windsor Great Park in a service that…