Everyone I know wants more sleep. The youngsters want to sleep in, the party animals in their twenties are recovering from big nights out, and those of us with children below waist-height are desperate for an uninterrupted slumber. Except me. I’ve been working with a nutritionist recently, for a health feature I’m writing, and she’s […]
Thinking
Postcard from the Isle of Cumbrae
The best holidays are the ones that feel like an escape. Where nothing resembles your daily routine, and the normal rules don’t apply. We are on a tiny island off the West coast of Scotland, although you wouldn’t know it from the weather, which has been virtually Mediterranean since we arrived. We have swum in the […]
How to network
It’s hard to go anywhere nowadays without some mention of the word ‘networking’. There are business breakfasts and entrepreneur evenings springing up left, right, and centre, and any event longer than half an hour will invariably incorporate a ‘coffee and networking’ session into its agenda. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if toddler groups were rebranded […]
Never mind Page Three – what about women's magazines?
I’m a big supporter of the No More Page Three campaign. I have no issue with women who want to take their clothes off for an audience, but I don’t believe page three of a newspaper is the right place for it. The Sun finds its way into two million homes every day, where it […]
A field full of cows
I am not a fan of cows. I’m not easily intimated by large animals, having owned horses for many years, but I have a nervousness around cows which I darkly suspect they recognise. Many years ago, when I was on maternity leave with three children under 18 months, […]
Fear of boredom
Nothing scares me more than boredom. I haven’t yet cultivated the art of doing nothing without getting bored (although I know several people who have it down to a fine art) and I have a propensity to fill every last hour of the week. And then a bit more. When I left my job – […]