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The First Six Weeks
I was quoted in an interview last year as comparing the sleep deprivation that comes with having a new baby to Guantanamo Bay. My heart...

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Looking Forward
Many of us live in a perpetual state of anticipation; it’s often the looking forward that gets us through the day to day. Not necessarily...

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Too Much Information.
It occurred to me recently how obsessed with are with predictions. I don’t mean opportunistic fortune telling or nonsense soothsaying,...

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Memories Are Made Of This...
Humans have many design glitches (features that Apple would have taken three or four iPhone generations to iron out, but ones that our...

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Dry January
Three years ago this month, I partook of Dry January (do you partake in abstinence? Enlist? Maybe endure would be a better word). The...

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Plans
Somebody asked me about my plans for Christmas recently, and I balked; I’m not even ready for Autumn yet, never mind Winter, because I...

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Style
I’m planning a late summer holiday this month, and for the first time in my life, I don’t have the previously ubiquitous swimsuit/ bikini...

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Escapism
The concept of escape means different things to different people. To some, it might evoke thoughts of a holiday, half an hour with a cup...

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Happiness
Good news: Summer is the time of year when we are most likely to be at our happiest. Of course this fact doesn’t take anyone’s personal...

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Optimism
You can break all personality types down into one of three categories: glass half full, glass half empty, and WHAT THE HELL’S IN THIS...

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Friendship
It’s a funny thing friendship; it means different things to different people, and different things yet again at various stages of life....

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New Year's Resolutions
“New Year is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, friendly calls...

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Breaking the Festive Rules
They started back in September; even earlier in some cruel instances. The countdown to Christmas, ads and supermarket displays showing us...

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The Uncanny Valley
“The uncanny valley” - a term coined to describe the unsettling feeling of looking at a human face that doesn’t look quite right; think...

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Beauty Truths
"What is really important for a woman, more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining." If you’re wondering what great...

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The Things I Wish I'd Known About Motherhood
You might ask yourself, “who is she to pen a book on parenthood?”. Am I a doctor? No (well, I consider myself, like many others, to be...

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The disasters, triumphs and bliss of new babies.
I was quoted in an interview last year as comparing the sleep deprivation that comes with having a new baby to Guantanamo Bay. My heart...

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Let's Talk About Fertility
I’ve never believed that youth is wasted on the young. If we were handed it back at a later stage, we’d be too cautious with it, too...

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Get Stuffed - Festive Fare
The last few years have seen an upsurge in “alternative Christmas dining”. As low-cost supermarkets bring in frozen lobsters for a tenner...

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Beach Bodies
At any given time, you can find the longest queues in the world in one of two places; a newly opened attraction at a theme park, and in...

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