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At work this week, we just happened to get onto the subject of comparison. I’m sure it’s the same in many workplaces – that you tend to be on similar paths as those you work with. Some may be married or getting married, looking to buy their first home or decorating it, hoping to start...
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Reaching your late twenties can be a funny time when it comes around. It slowly creeps up you, having spent most of your early twenties planning what you’ll be doing and how you’ll have everything figured out by the time it does. You’ll have the great, well-paid job, the house – albeit with a huge...
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One in six women who fall pregnant will suffer a miscarriage up to 24 weeks and one in 100 will endure traumatic recurrent infant loss. Yet despite the frequency, miscarriage is still very much a taboo subject. Shrouded in silence and even shame; women are left alone with the emptiness, unable to feel they can voice...
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Although I myself haven’t experienced the minefield that is online dating, I’ve heard many a terrifying and humorous tale surrounding it. In fact, I’ve never even been on an internet dating site, let alone subject myself to a potentially awkward first date (some may call this a lucky escape) – but have I missed out? ...
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Although as I type this, it has been raining for seven solid hours, the British wedding season is now in full bountiful swing. Whether 2017 is your year of weddings – we’ll all experience those, together with the corresponding hen dos – or you’re only planning to attend one or two evening receptions, the high...
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As soon as June hits we officially enter what is known in bridal terms as Wedding Season. The UK goes into a frenzy of wedding overload that lasts right through until September. It’s all bridal shows and cake tastings, endless glasses of bubbly and trying on dresses. There’s picking the perfect posies, choosing which of...
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Branding your body with the name of a loved one has long been tabooed. And while some think of it as romantic to ink the surface of their skin in the name of love, I find it tacky. For me it has nothing to do with the permanency of the tattoo itself, but more to...
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A couple of years ago you probably would not have known who Amal Alamuddin was.  Maybe you still don’t.  But if we told you she is now more widely known as Amal Clooney it might start to ring a bell!  In September 2014, Amal married actor George Clooney and, whilst it is a shame that...
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Love is in the air, or so they tell us, as Valentine’s Day approaches. Some of you may think the day is the perfect opportunity to make a grand declaration of love, whilst others might think it the perfect excuse for hibernation; either way this Friday is the most romantic day of the year. But...
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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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