Living, as I do, by the ‘No Expectations, No Disappointments’ edict, I always expect the next date, or even the next text, to be the last. But my…er…my current…relation… – no, let’s call it ‘friendship – seems to be going on and on!

You see, we manage to connect on a variety of different levels: intellectually, […]
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I can’t quite believe the furore that’s arisen over Sam Taylor Wood’s recent announcement of her pregnancy with 19 year old Aaron Johnson. There’s been an awful lot of outrage, disgust, and sour grapes spewed all over the internet. Seriously though, what’s the problem? They are in a long-term relationship and are engaged, just like many […]
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… to find the best way to say come over and have sex, without saying it.” There are some hilarious texts listed on  www.textsfromlastnight.com  This site set up in  2009 by two friends for reasons that may or may not include: the tendency to press send more easily as the night turns to morning, friends’ […]
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The Conservatives are proposing tax breaks for married couples. Offering a tax break for married couples rates marriage above co-habiting or living on your own. This got me thinking about how we, as a society, rate relationships or their absence. The question is much bigger than fiscal policy. The proposed tax break points to the […]
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Aside from my own rocky seas at the moment, I heard something the other day that really wound me up. Well okay, it made me silently indignant, but indignant all the same… I was curled up aboard the sleepy morning train to work from Nebfleet, half dozing myself to a muted clicketty-clack clicketty-clack lullaby, when […]
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 ‘Stop the world, I want to get off’…..Well, you can! For a very grown up Alice, Wonderland is accessible.  It doesn’t require mind altering drugs, just life enhancing experiences. Each one perfect in its isolation yet, like the finest pearls, when strung together, glorious.     Life for many of us is incredibly full on […]
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1. Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc. 2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber.  Cucumbers are a […]
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The terror at finding a lump on or near your breast is indescribable quickly followed by denial and disbelief in what the tips of your fingers have felt.  It took less than two weeks from that heart stopping moment to discover that my lump was in fact a fatty deposit.  The relief I felt on […]
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Some of you ladies might harbour a fantasy of a lost friend or sweetheart from years ago that you may one day meet up with and sail off into the sunset to a blissful land of love. It’s an unfair fact of life that reality hardly ever lives up to the fantasy and if it […]
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By the time you are in your 40s, as I am, you have known many women who have had babies. I once told a woman who had children that I never planned to have kids and she said I should get to it quickly or I would kick myself later in life. I smiled and […]
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