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love
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to spoil that special lady in your life and show her just how much she means to you. It’s a day that simply reminds us how much our mothers’ really do for us. It’s also the perfect opportunity to say ‘thank you’ to the...
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Can’t commit, won’t commit  Modern dating, is there anything more depressing or lonely? The logic behind it just doesn’t make any sense to me. We avoid relationships because we’re worried about bearing our souls. Of being vulnerable with someone, of expressing any real interest and yet we spend our days trawling dating apps, matching with...
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friendship
From pre-school friendships to the close bonds we form at university or the work colleagues we soon come to view as good friends, it is the people in our lives who really make up the very essence of what it’s all about. We are not told of the importance of these friendships growing up. We...
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self love
Sometimes it’s all too easy to shower those we love with gifts, love and appreciation. We want to show those closest to us how important they are, how much they mean to us and how much we value them. This can be shown through a simple bunch of flowers, buying them their lunch or popping...
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When it comes to home comforts, we are all so wonderfully different. In fact, you may not even realise they are a home comfort until you stop and think. They may change seasonally – or weekly – but it is these that make our house a home, and help to make it the best place...
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mothers day
March 11th is a rather special day in the calendar this year. Mother’s Day; It’s a day that invites us to say thank you to our mothers, grandmothers and even the mother-in-law for all the help, love and guidance they have provided us with. While, much like Valentine’s Day, we shouldn’t need a date to...
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gifts
Although a nation of shoppers, we are also known to be – in some circumstances – a nation of last minute shoppers too. Whilst frantically buying all my presents on Christmas Eve does not appeal to me, there are many others who seem to either thrive on the pressure or simply forget, and end up...
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Feature
The nights are drawing in, there’s already a distinct biting chill in the air and the once green leaves have begun to rust and fall from their branches; autumn is here. But as we battle the drizzle and prepare to head into the new season bundled up in our knitwear and looking towards Christmas, the...
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son
Some of you might remember that a few years ago I wrote a letter to my future daughter. Well today I was thinking about how often we see pieces of writing like this amongst women, yet there is little addressed to our sons. Journals and life lessons written for her, for one day, imparting our...
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country life
What is it that makes us city dwellers or country bumpkins? Is it through nurture or nature that we decide upon the location in which we hope to settle down, work and raise a family? As a true country girl, I got to thinking about our different preferences and wondered what makes us put down...
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