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There is this one pair of trainers that has been stalking me online for the past few months. And it doesn’t matter which one of my...

I was off on Thursday last week and except for one meeting that I had fixed having forgotten it was my day off, I was looking forward to...

It seems to be that everyone is talking about January being the month to cut back on all the over-eating from last month, to go back to...

I have never watched any wedding on TV, so I wasn’t paying much attention to the Royal Wedding, beyond getting caught up in all the...

Over the last week, the weather has turned into a familiar ‘fry an egg on your car bonnet’ hot that, like every other year, has taken us...

Perhaps influenced by just having found my copy of Lyn Truss’ Eats, Shoots and Leaves - a hilarious book on the trials and tribulations...

When Mrs Rose Milligan of Lancashire wrote a poem by this name exactly 20 years ago, I don’t think she realised how far around the world...

I have no idea whether I am a potato, a coffee bean or an egg. Please note that this is relevant in the context of hot water only. I...

Ladies’ handbags are these amazing things. Technically, I could have run off to the airport at any time earlier this month with just my...

We keep talking about customer service, but a visiting friend who’s in the hospitality business brought ‘customer behaviour’ to my notice...

It always seems like we have so much to do and so little time to do it. I’ve had this conversation with many of my friends and we seem to...

Though I keep insisting that I am not too big on resolutions, I seem to want to revisit this slippery slope in the last week of December...

Years ago, I remember being at this new place in town that had opened up at the Crowne Plaza – Zouk. It was opening night, the place was...

As I sat in front of the officious looking gentleman in the small dusty room in a remote corner of a large departmental store inside a...

What’s a new year without resolutions, right? You make them, you break them and then you make them again. I think it’s a tradition that...

Sometimes, it’s the simplest things. The trees everywhere, the bare branches of some waiting for spring, glimpses of the flat, luscious...

It happens to all of us: Whenever you go back to the place where you grew up, the roads look narrower, the buildings look smaller, the...

A well-meaning person recently said that she could help me get a good following on social media on the platforms of my choice. She...