Once I went into anaphylactic shock after hugging my father. I ended up in intensive care. As I started to recover my dad hugged me again and the same thing happened. It was then we all realised it was my […]
Being joyful whilst Black is….precarious. More so than for any other racial group (argue with me, I dare you). It’s just no matter how big a safety wall of joy and abundance we build around ourselves, we can never know […]
Oh wait, you thought I wanted to know what your New Year’s resolutions were? No. I don’t care. The problem is that too many people make them and don’t stick to them. I include myself in this. So, I have […]
Bad news: Oddbins has gone into administration…oh, Brexit! Good news: Wine is getting cheaper The world seems to be going bonkers and the only way I can deal with it is to pepper the bad news with some good. I […]
Bopo. You know….Bopo? Yes you do. It’s the shorthand way of saying body positivism which unless you have been living under a rock you will have heard mentioned by one /all of the following: The long suffering advocates and campaigners […]
Five years ago, my 2 year old granddaughter experienced her first anaphylactic shock due to ingesting peanuts in a packet of snacks. After that experience, she went without bread and cakes for a year. By Marie-Anne Rasé Being intolerant of […]
To juice or not to juice (celery)? It’s a question that has been popping up across almost every media feed for the last week or so. To be clear, I knew nothing about the celery juice debate before I saw […]
It happens. You have been friends for years but you have changed and so have they. You chat on the phone, but only rarely and when you do it’s just not the same. The phone calls are now the only […]
Now that you have gorged yourself on turkey and digested all of that Christmas cake, have you started to think about 2019? I’m sorry to break you out of your festive stupor but the New Year looms and with it, […]
Coming up: Brand new content for new mums! Motherhood has been the most rewarding job of my life. It can also get tough sometimes (right now my daughter is crying because I won’t let her drink hot chocolate with a […]
