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Let’s be honest for a moment. We can’t help but compare ourselves to others. On a daily basis we are bombarded by news feeds and magazine features telling us about more glamorous lives, the rich and of course the better bodied. When life perhaps sometimes isn’t going our way, or things haven’t turned out like we wished,...
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 “Count your blessings instead of sheep” – White Christmas (1954) Around Christmas time every channel is taken over by companies competing with each other for the title of ‘Best Christmas Advert’. We know Christmas has begun when the ‘Coca-Cola’ advert first plays and we all wait to see what ‘John Lewis’ have come up with....
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When you stand in front of an audience I wonder what you see. Last Monday, MSL celebrated its 4th birthday in our favourite venue, The Club at The Ivy. As I opened the evening I saw smiling faces of different generations, inquisitive faces of men and women who were keen to know about the developments...
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A couple of weeks ago I celebrated a landmark birthday when I reached the grand old age of 25… (ahem)…fine, 30. Having successfully made it past the rock ‘n’ roll age of death at 27, I’ll admit I was nervous about hitting this monumental age. The blow was significantly softened by being presented with a...
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Now that the Christmas period has definitely come to an end, it is time to look back and reflect on this years festivities and avoid looking at the waist line. The clinking of champagne glasses, the roars of laughter and the piles of shredded wrapping paper, Christmas and New Year is the time to relax,...
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It’s finally New Years Eve, and I bet like me, you’re once again hatching a last minute plan to try and better last years night of celebrations. While we are all under no illusion that tonight is one of the most hyped up days of the year, and you’ll no doubt wake up on the...
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“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.” Charles Lamb Old Year’s Day, New Years Eve, Saint Sylvester’s Day: call it what you will but regardless of language or location,...
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Do you ever trawl over google images and think to yourself “If only I could have Mila Kunis’ big brown eyes, Kim Kardashian’s flawless sun kissed complexion or Penelope Cruz’ luscious glossy locks”…Yeah, same here. We live in a world where celebrities are the holy grail and we are constantly faced with images of perfection,...
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The Scottish Style Awards is not a ceremony I have necessarily heard of before. Perhaps because I am not a Scott, or perhaps because it doesn’t get the media coverage it deserves. Either way, I will be following the celebration of creative endeavor every year from now, having immersed myself in the tartan-tastic, big bearded...
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