December 10, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Inspiration & Lifestyle

Do Clothes Have a Gender?

The other day I had an email about a unisex, gender-fluid clothing line. I headed off to take a look and was disappointed to discover just shirts and trousers. £200 shirts and trousers at that. To me they seemed less gender fluid and more, well, shirts and trousers really. They also came with no sizing

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

The 5 Biggest Mistakes I Made When I Became Self Employed

Being self-employed is a dream for a lot of people. They imagine themselves throwing off the shackles of the 9-5 to do their own thing, working on their laptop in coffee shops, taking time off whenever they feel like it and, especially when we’re talking about being a self-employed blogger, getting all sorts of freebies.

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Making Those New Years Resolutions Stick

Ah, welcome to January. The gym is suddenly busy, the shops are full of workout equipment and protein bars, and by Valentines Day everyone is back on the chocolate and wine. This year, for possibly the first time in my adult life, I honestly want to carry on into January exactly the same as I

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Top of the Retro Chick Pops 2015

Tomorrow is New Years Eve, and yet another year will have flown by. As is now tradition I shall end the year with a look back at this years most popular posts. They’re not the most read posts overall necessarily, that’s a topic for another post perhaps, they’re simply the posts I wrote this year

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

My Favourite 6 Christmas Movies

Some people will tell you Christmas is all about family, giving and receiving gifts, religion, or eating your own bodyweight in Pringles. I think it’s all about Christmas Movies. Well, some of it is anyway, a lot of it is about all those other things, of course. Every year, as well as wearing my vast

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Because Social Media IS Real Life

I’ve read 2 articles in the last couple of days that have prompted me to think about Social Media a lot. The first is the story of Essena O’Neil who at the grand old age of 18, has dramatically quit Social Media, deleted photos from her Instagram account and changed the name of the account

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Some More Netflix Picks

Back in February I told you how my Netflix scepticism had transformed into an obsession. I shared some of my top picks from Netflix at the time. Well since then I’ve found a whole host of other stuff to obsessively watch (and rewatch) over and over, so I thought it was time for another quick

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10 Reasons to Look Forward to Autumn

At the moment it feels like someone pressed the “Autumn” switch. September started and BOOM, grey skies, drizzle, weather so chilly I need to wear a jumper at home instead of opening all the windows and putting a fan on. I guess the only way of guaranteeing that we’ll have another burst of Summer at

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Meet The Pinkertons

I do love a good detective drama. Not the sort with grizzly murders and serial killers and nastiness, but the nice, gentle, personality focused sort. Regular readers will know of my mild obsession with Poirot, and a recent Netflix discovery was Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries. I have a tendency to binge watch stuff and I

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