Breaking News: Spring Mornings, Fish, and an Interview!

23Feb

Breaking News: It’s Never Too Late

19Oct

Breaking News: Come to my Book Signing!

02Sep

Breaking News: August Ramblings, Reviews and Recommendations

21Aug

Breaking News: Coming out of Lockdown

30Jul

Breaking News: Summer Reads 2020

02Jul

Breaking News: I’m Just So ANGRY!

02Jun

Breaking News: It all Started With The Jam…

29May

Breaking News: Book Reviews and an Escaping Dog

11May

Breaking News: A Poetry Lesson 5: John Donne’s ‘Holy Sonnet XIV’

09May

Breaking News: A Poetry Lesson 3: Sylvia Plath’s ‘Cut’

07May

Breaking News: A Poetry Lesson 2.5: Guest Post by Mr B, George Herbert’s ‘Vertue’

06May

Middle-Aged Warrior

Getting old, married with youngish children, rediscovering my mojo

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Tag: Long Reads

by middleagedwarrior

Why Can’t I Google my Symptoms? How to Conquer your Hypochondria

Having suffered with Hypochondria or Health Anxiety for years, here’s 13 things I did to get me through it and out the other side. Well, they worked for me!

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A row of four, naked, barbies. Superimposed over their groins are four different flowers in yellow, red, pink and orange

To Pube or Not to Pube? Personal Grooming in the Modern Age

A huger proportion of young woman remove 100% of their body hair. Why do I have a problem with this? Is hair-free the way to go?

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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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‘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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‘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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