I left the love of my life today. The love affair is over and this is the saddest I’ve ever been. My husband rolls his eyes at my dramatics and raises his coffee cup in the most sardonic salute ever: I’m giving up coffee for Lent.
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Take one sense out of the mix and suddenly dining out is far less pleasurable—especially for those who are visually impaired and the blind. Accessibility features work wonders for many people who need them but it’s worth considering whether they’re appropriate for everyone and ensuring those people are catered to. Is braille a dying language because of said accessibility features on technology?
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So many women deny having been influenced to shave, wear makeup or wear heels, claiming they do it for themselves. But when you are receiving compliments and are being treated better when you do those things, there’s definitely influence at play.
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The trainer game is at its all-time highest, and the percentage of women in the UK who bought trainers has overtaken the percentage of women in the UK who bought heels
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Lip balm is my ultimate essential; entire days have been derailed because I couldn’t find a tube. I really shouldn’t need to apply it as much as I do, so where has this addiction come from?
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Some people’s weaknesses are crisps or sandwiches—not us. But type ‘sugar danger’ into Google and the results are scary.
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So, it’s official, my diary has something written in it until the second week of January 2019.
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No wonder women don’t feel safe anywhere! While researching for The ultimate guide to bra-fitting, I spent time on the sub-Reddit, r/abrathatfits. This should be a safe place; a portion of the internet carved out for women helping women. Turns out, it wasn’t.
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How many consumers are being mis-sold and who can we trust?
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Can you identify the signs and when it might be time to move onto pastures new?
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Recently, I was approached by a company who were keen to speak with me about a role. They’d seen my experience and they were really looking for a woman to join their team—red flag, red flag!
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And I mean everything. She takes photos of anything and everything that—in her words—amuses, interests or visually pleases her. This is mindfulness.
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Every single moment in a life plays a part in defining what person they are and who they will become.
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With so much to do on this small square I hold before me, it seems as though people of the technology age are never ‘bored.’ But is this a good thing?
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Vandalism should have won over the wish to have a public, well-cited crowdsourced knowledge base. And yet…
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Jade’s assertions in her recent article made me stop and think about my own response to book etiquette.
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Do I think a man should pay for dinner? No. Do I find it flattering when a man wants to treat me to dinner? Yes. Does it annoy me when a man ‘demands’ to pay in a certain way? Yes.
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It all begins with a the click of a button on Outlook to send my Out of Office, followed by a confident strut as I exit the building. My holiday awaits.
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I went to see The Force Awakens with my husband (then boyfriend) to humour him; I’d never seen a Star Wars, and hadn’t ever had any desire to do so. And then, after two hours, I was hooked. I loved the film, I loved the vibe, and I loved Kylo Ren.
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When I tell my grandma I am working out to make my bum look bigger, her face is a picture.
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