Do you ever lie awake at night feeling stuck, or anxious? Like you can’t – or won’t – achieve something? That everyone else seems to be playing this crazy board game called Life so much better than you are? Like you’ve started playing the game, […]
After a long, cold winter it’s always a relief when the day finally arrives when you can tentatively shrug off those layers and turn the money-munching central heating off until the autumn. You may still feel like a puffy poisonous caterpillar, in dire need of […]
Were you born in the seventies…or before? In that case, this little scenario may be vaguely familiar: Science teacher (leaning over a bunsen burner with a roll-up cigarette dangling from betwixt his lips): “Hey! You at the back! Take that red-hot spatula off the back […]
One of the perks of being a health and beauty blogger is being sent lots of lovely press samples from brands hoping for product promotion on my site and across my social media accounts. As I’m often travelling or out and about, I have them […]
Happy International Women’s Day! I was recently invited to take part in a campaign entitled The She Word to celebrate International Women’s Day by featuring in a video about women in business which you can watch here, and dyeing my hair purple. As regular Bird’s […]
For those women who, like myself, are childless not by choice (CNBC), Mother’s Day brings a mixture of feelings: love and appreciation for our own mothers (and mothers everywhere), and sadness that we will never experience motherhood ourselves. If you are a mum, I hope […]
At the tail end of 2017, I decided that 2018 was going to be a year of great change; instead of being the back half of a pantomime horse, being led by others in a direction I didn’t always agree with, this year I would […]
Once upon a time… …there was a young girl called Sam, who loved to dance and sing and do gymnastics. As Sam got older she still loved to dance…but the sports? Not so much. Still, she would dance and dance – at nightclubs and festivals […]
