10 Ways to Cope With a Depressed Partner
Living with a depressed partner is tough. Here is what I have learned on how to cope when things are at their darkest.
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My Book!
So… My Book is Out! Please buy it – shameless plugging alert.
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‘I am a little bit in love with Norman Reedus’: A middle-aged woman’s mid-life crisis.
My inappropriate crush on Norman Reedus/Daryl Dixon and my love for The Walking Dead. Does this crush make me a bad feminist?
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Top Tips for Running a Successful Holiday Let
Based on ten years’ experience of running holiday lets, here are some words of advice on how to keep your guest happy and guarantee future bookings.
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A (one-sided) Conversation with my Children
Fed up with setting and failing my own New Year’s Resolutions, I have decided to write some for my children.
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‘I’ll never set foot in a church, not even for my daughter’s wedding.’ My Grandmother Anne: Atheist and Communist.
A tribute to my grandmother: a confirmed atheist, she was fascinated with Cold War Russia and Communism. Discovering the letters she exchanged with my grandmother from 1937 and beyond has been a delight. #DarlingAnne
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‘Wear Big Earrings as they Help Light up Your Face’ Some beauty tips and tricks I have learned over the past 35 years. Post 1
Things I have learned over the last 20 years about beauty products. Being old has got to have some advantages, right?
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‘Your voice sounded like you were drowning’: The day my baby died
Unexplained stillbirths still happen and are devastating. The effects on the father are just as awful as on the mother, but they often don’t get offered the same support
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‘One Dead Eye’: My Giant Tear Detached Retinas and Me
It was a Wednesday afternoon, I was six. I had just got back from school when Christopher Stone (his real name) shot me in the eye with an arrow.
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