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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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The M Word: Fathers' Day
Ah, Father’s Day. Invented some time in the 1980s by the people who brought us such celebrations as Children’s Dental Health Week, National

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The M Word: Confidence
I’ve been thinking a lot of late (I say “a lot”, but it’s mainly just within that spare five minutes I have at 4am) about women and...

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St Patrick's Day Style.
This fine publication is much taken up with talk of new season fashion and all thing Irish this month: two things which not so many moons...

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The M Word: Keen-what??
My now 13 month old baby is (for the most part) a great eater. I find myself swelling with pride if people remark on it, as they see him...

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The M Word: Food, Glorious (Baby)Food.
I’m so excited by the buzz The M Word has generated so far. It’s reassuring to know my random thoughts and mild panics at 4am are not...

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Valentine's Day...
Four decades on this planet and I have only recently learned the truth about swans. It transpires that although for the most part they do...

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The M Word: You Know What You Should Do?
In the year 2015 BC (before child), I received lots of advice and tips, and even a photo of someone’s damaged vagina. Most of it I...

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