Archive For The “Opinion & personal” Category
Six-and-a-half months after giving birth to her adorable baby son, my oldest and very special friend was dealt the biggest blow of her life. Emma and husband Phil were given the diagnosis that Freddie Jack McDonald had chronic liver disease, a condition known as Alagille syndrome, which affects just one in 100,000 people. From that [...]
My grandma died of breast cancer in the mid 90s when she was 76 and I was 18. She was the only grandparent I knew, the others all lost their lives before I was born or when I was tiny. She was too young to go. I was too young really to have stopped being [...]
Something amazing has happened and I have you to thank. First, it was lovely to hear from so many of you that you had kindly taken the time to nominate me in Company magazine’s style blogger awards. Then I found out I’d actually made the shortlist of 10 in the ‘best crafting blog’ category! So [...]
More than 9 million of us opt for internet dating and 30 per cent of new relationships start online. So can we now say it has lost its stigma? I asked my single friend Jo - who finds dates sometimes but not exclusively online – to talk about some of her latest experiences in the dating [...]
It may have been the coldest start to spring for 50 years, but we are now officially in summer time. There are so many things I look forward to about the warmer, brighter months. More than just the obvious. Winter seems to come back round so quickly, I’m often left wishing I’d made more of [...]
This week’s ‘pinning lately’ has an unintentional floral theme. Think I’m unconsciously craving something because we were surrounded by snow when we should have been launched, head-first, into the colour, warmth and newness that is the first few days of spring? (I’m sorry to talk about the weather but I can’t help it, I’m British). [...]
As you may (if you’re not on mobile) be able to see in the sidebar to your right, the 2013 Company Style Blogger Awards are up and running with nominations open. This little blog has been nominated in the ‘best crafting blog’ category! If you enjoy my DIYs, I’d be over the moon if you [...]
Of course, not really. But I’ve had a fair bit of attention from across the pond recently and although it’s not in my nature I thought I’d tell you about it. Early in the new year a freelance journalist got in touch to say she was writing a piece for the Associated Press (AP) news [...]
There’s been a bit of a debate going on around the fashion weeks that seems to have started with Suzy Menkes’ piece for the New York Times’ T magazine in which she bemoaned the “cattle market” of “showoffs” waiting to be snapped outside shows. It is certainly true that what goes on inside on the catwalk [...]
2012 has, in general, been a good year for womankind I think. But, as always, there were some who let the side down. Here’s a quick recap on the women who have inspired me this year (and one or two I’ve been particularly unimpressed with). Michelle Obama from twitter.com/BarackObama More than just a first lady, [...]
