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 […]
Never underestimate the healing power of a good old…clean? That can’t be right, surely? Replace ‘clean’ with dance, snog, laugh or cry and I’m sure anyone would concur with the statement. But clean?! Those are words I never thought I’d see these idle little […]
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Berenice Smith for Walk In Our Shoes: a website supporting men and women who are childless not by choice (CNBC), their families, friends and colleagues through real-life stories and accounts of life after loss. Walking Forward Inspirational […]
I love a holiday; I’m a true believer in the serotonin-boosting power of a spot of vitamin sea. However, having recently returned from two weeks of fun and frolics in Thailand, my skin’s been feeling a tad parched. It’s about as hydrated as a raisin […]
1st February As has been the pattern every night in Krabi, the morning dawns bright and sunny; any evidence of the violent storm from the evening before erased like a cleaned-up murder scene. The same troop of capuchin monkeys that I saw yesterday are playing […]
29th January After three super-chilled nights on laid-back Lanta, it’s time for a change of scenery once again, so today we’re taking another ferry – this time to Krabi. Each ferry ride takes a couple of hours, costs about 350 baht per person (about £8) […]
26th January The next morning we head down to Charlie’s House for a wholesome brekkie of avocado toast with poached eggs to set ourselves up for the ferry ride across to Koh Lanta. We pass by the ribbon tree, a Buddhist shrine dedicated to the […]
23rd January After breakfast and bidding fond farewells to our lovely hosts (half the hotels we stay at on this trip are run by a European guy and his Thai wife) we take a minibus to the pier. The 45-minute bus journey plus two-hour ferry […]
20th January 2018 For this particular island-hopping adventure we fly directly into Phuket from Gatwick for three nights, then a two-hour ferry to Phi Phi for three nights, then another ferry to Koh Lanta for three nights, then a ferry to Krabi for – yes, […]
19th January 2018 Right, Thailand! I need your help. (“Again?!” I hear you mumble, raising your eyes heavenwards.) Sorry, yes. I need you to fix me. Just saying your name is like drizzling honey onto my soul, giving me the sugar high I need to […]
Hey girls! Listen up! Before you look at my perfect Insta-worthy body and scroll on by with a sigh, wait a sec… Ha! Thought that’d get your attention. Whaddya mean, I don’t have a perfect body?! Well, maybe not quiiite yet. But I live in […]
Work, work, work! You work hard, right? Hustling for the dollar, day in, day out; working your carefully manicured fingers to the bone. I hear ya, gurl! So you deserve a treat; I couldn’t agree more. Let’s think about that treat for a moment, make […]
So the bad thing about jetlag is being wide awake from 3am. The good thing about jetlag is that I’ve done two blog assignments and written this poem – and all before 8.30… I’ve always valued experiences over things, and this is never clearer in […]
