As the only mother in my friendship group.. My friends often don’t realize the way us mother feel about certain things.     1. Want to come on a girls holiday? This weekend? *face-palm* No, unfortunately I cannot just abandon my responsibility because its a weekend   2. Your like […]

A year or so ago, I watched a video on YouTube in which J.K. Rowling addresses the graduates at Harvard University. It was a touching twenty minute speech which, if you haven’t already seen it, can be found below. In it, she brought to my attention a very good yet previously […]

As a man with limited hill walking experience and a propensity to sit in the firing line of the pleasant sunshine, I was at best ambivalent about my wife’s idea of a summer holiday. Circumnavigating around the Mont Blanc range wasn’t top of my ‘self-preservation agenda’ for our summer holidays. […]

That’s it! I have to say something, or I’m going to explode! It may sound like I’m a little furious, or overexcited to speak out. Maybe I am. Last week, I was browsing Netflix, (as I always do), looking for a good movie to watch. Still searching, I finally noticed The […]

On the 4th September 2013 I celebrated possibly the best anniversary I am yet to have. It was not a anniversary shared with a boyfriend or loved one, nor was it an anniversary to commemorate a special event. It was simply the ten year anniversary of starting secondary school. Now, […]

There aren’t many films where the blooper-reel is funnier than the final product. ‘We’re the Millers’ directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, of ‘Dodgeball’ fame, is a swing and a miss comedy that tries to blend all the raunchiness of ‘The Hangover’ with traditional family sitcom style comedy. Low level marijuana […]

I can’t get away from it. Twenty seven years of age, presently living with the fiance’s parents in their (thankfully large) vicarage home, unmarried, no children, no house, and a temp job that is certainly feeling like my long-term job at the minute. It is quite clear, given the fact […]

Young people today often believe they have to be realistic with their goals, that they can’t achieve their dreams because people tell them they can’t make it. The truth is that you can accomplish anything if you set your mind to it. If you are willing to work hard, stay […]