Whether it’s because of their adorable features, a star role in a film or association to their celebrity owners, there are many pets that have become household names over the years. See which pets have earned their way to fame below: Pudsey, Britain’s Got Talent winner Along with his owner […]

Philip Pullman, The Ruby in the Smoke Book Review  A brief synopsis: Sally Lockhart is a sixteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself embroiled in a world of mystery and intrigue. Following the death of her father, who drowned at sea, she receives a cryptic note from an anonymous sender urging […]

It’s common knowledge that January is one of the most depressing months of the year. Everyone’s strapped for cash, the weather is bleak, you’re sick to death of food and you’ve had to go back to work after a nice break for Christmas and New Year. But it doesn’t all […]

Sustainability means living without having an impact on the surrounding environment. It means acting with zero cost for the planet. The notion of sustainability gradually inspired me to try it out for myself, to try and have as little damaging impact on the environment around me, whilst maintaining my standard […]

Dear Advertisers, I do not need to be told what is wrong with me I do not need to know that I am Fat, flat-chested, ugly, or unfashionable None of the products you can sell me Will erase the fact that I was painfully aware of all these things By […]

The start of relationships, no matter what age you are or experience you’ve had, are always tough. The days full of excitement, wondering when you’re going to hear from that special person. I once gave someone my number and waited patiently for them to text me. I wasn’t sat hovering […]

‘Calm down, have a cigarette?’ my try hard mother dictates to me across the family dinner table – she says it to sound ‘down with the kids’, as I know she’d put it. What I should establish now is that mine is a family of certain unsaid but engrained values […]

It’s not that I religiously don’t drink… This festive season, I’ve had more than two glasses of mead, and a little sup of mulled wine.  The latter, I had half a glass of while out at the Christmas Markets and from it did get very merry.  But that was in the […]