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Which Bicycle Bastard Are You?

Eight weeks ago I started cycling to work. I made the switch because I had just booked an elaborate West Coast holiday and every bus ride I took meant one less dirty $1 frozen margarita in Vegas....

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A-Z of Bad Style: G is for G-Strings

A French company called Inderwear has introduced a new style of men’s G-string called a ‘String Side Flash‘, an asymmetrical thong that cups one’s junk so snugly it only needs one side to hold it...

May 3, 2013 Like

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The Worst Dates Ever

I love dating. Who doesn’t? There’s something quite exciting about throwing yourself into the pub with an unknown. A first date could be an unprecedented disaster, or the beginning of a great...

Apr 26, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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A-Z of Bad Style: F is for Faking It

We’re all a little bit fake these days. Make-up, push-up bras, industrial-strength gut-suction knickers. We paint our faces, colour our hair and do all sorts of things in the spirit of looking our...

Apr 14, 2013 Like 2 people like this

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An Epidemic of Mummies’ Boys?

Historically, I’ve always gone for effeminate blokes: tall, skinny types with long eyelashes and perfectly-coiffed hair. The kind of boys that would cause my mother to ask whether I was in denial...

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A-Z of Bad Style: E is for Exercise

I am going to California this summer and have only 149 days to sculpt my body into something that can hold its own against the super-svelte, ultra-bronzed Cayenne-pepper-and-bollocks-all-else...

Mar 28, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Public Transport: Top Tips for Non-Motorists

Since I’ve moved to London I’ve relinquished the luxury of having my own car. It may have been small, naff and only able to hold four people (according to an article I read in the paper, the ‘Ford...

Feb 26, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Seven Things Men Find Unattractive About Women

There is a website called Realbuzz that you get automatically signed up to when you enter the ballot to run the Virgin London Marathon. Generally, it’s an active community of runners and fitness...

Feb 7, 2013 Like

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Rejoice! The January Health Kick is Finally Over

It’s nearly the end of January, thank fuck, and so far this year I barely recognise myself. My housemates and I, in a collective fit of healthful good intentions, decided for January to a) take up...

Jan 31, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Social Media Etiquette: the Ultimate Guide for Oversharers, Attention-Seekers and Morons

Facebook pages are like arseholes; everyone’s got one. I use mine for party organising, keeping in touch with far-flung friends and staying abreast of the latest developments in baby animal videos....

Oct 22, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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A-Z of Bad Style: D is for Designer labels

The other day I saw a guy on the street in a pair of heavily embellished indigo jeans and a baby blue T-shirt with more rhinestones on it than Amy Childs’ undercarriage. Both items were by French...

Oct 3, 2012 Like

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How Not to Move House

I left home for real a couple of weeks ago, which is why I’ve been a bit of a Slack Alice on the blog front recently. Turns out, moving house is actually REALLY time-consuming, expensive and...

Sep 27, 2012 Like

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The Spotter’s Guide to Brassieres

The Peephole This aren’t garments that feature in my own personal heaving sea of underthings, but they do exist. What is their purpose? I mean, nipples are among those body parts – toes and armpits...

Sep 19, 2012 Like

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The legacy of Sex and the City

I never watched Sex and the City when it first aired, but after years of nagging from friends I’ve finally caught up with the famously well-heeled foursome from NYC. Admittedly I’m about a decade...

Sep 8, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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A-Z of Bad Style: C is for Clubwear

This post comes with disclaimer: I am not really a clubbing person. As a June baby, I was one of the last people in my year to reach that all-important eighteen-year milestone, so I only had three...

Aug 31, 2012 Like

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Booze boycott (sort of)

I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting old and boring, but as I’ve grown out of my student lifestyle I’ve become a bit disillusioned with the supposed glamour of alcohol. Obviously, this doesn’t...

Aug 27, 2012 Like

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A-Z of Bad Style: B is for Brassieres

Last week my second-favourite bra finally gave in and had to be consigned to the rubbish bin. Isn’t it the most INFURIATING thing when that happens? And obviously really tragic, too, for the orphan...

Aug 20, 2012 Like

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Don’t waste your time on Fifty Shades of Grey

After being asked by friends, Twitter followers and the woman in charge of beautifying my twinkle to write something about best-selling clit-lit novel, Fifty Shades of Grey, I have finally bothered...

Aug 16, 2012 Like

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Is chivalry dead?

The word ‘chivalry’ comes from the days of medieval knighthood when girls weren’t allowed to do much except embroider things, push out sprogs and peruse ye olde pages of Which Wimple? Back then, of...

Aug 12, 2012 Like 1 person likes this

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A-Z of Bad Style: A is for Applebottoms

…Or any brand of jeans really, but I’d already decided I wanted to talk about something else for J so I had to improvise. We don’t even really have Applebottoms here in the UK; I only know about...

Aug 5, 2012 Like

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Shafted by My Little Pony: why girls’ toys suck and boys have all the fun

Last night I was sitting in front of the telly (with my laptop, obv, like the multi-tasking beast I am) when an Argos advert came on during the commercial break: “great deals on boys’ toys, like...

Jul 29, 2012 Like

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Style Notes: The Onesie

Even as a student, I was very snobby about hoodies, tracksuit bottoms and any other item that might loosely (and charitably) be classified as ‘loungewear’. I’d look on in revulsion as my peers...

Jul 19, 2012 Like

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Style Notes: The Investment Bag

For a very long time I knew I was going to spend my first proper paycheque on a Mulberry handbag. Sod the student overdraft; once I found someone daft enough to employ me properly I was going to...

Jul 16, 2012 Like

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Cosmo Rage: Why women’s magazines are bad for your blood pressure

As a snobby English graduate, I always thought of women’s magazines as a bit of a guilty pleasure. Trashy as hell, of course, but strangely compelling. Against all reason, the components that make...

Jul 4, 2012 Like

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Beauty Notes: Sunburn

Two days into my holiday I let myself get myself get hideously, horribly burnt. I didn’t even realise it was happening; I was laboriously applying sun screen every 45 minutes (laboriously because I...

Jun 30, 2012 Like

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How To: Get what you want from the GUM clinic

I can’t even begin to comprehend the rapture of the female population when the Pill first became properly available back in the 1960s. Imagine! With just one tiny pill came a solution to irregular...

Jun 26, 2012 Like

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The Fab List: 25/06/12

Phew, I haven’t done one of these for awhile! Not that things haven’t been fab, of course, but because things have been so busy over the last month that I haven’t had much time. I’ve just come back...

Jun 26, 2012 Like

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Flying Tips for the Truly Clueless

Image via Designworklife.com Flying sucks, especially long-haul. I appreciate it’s an inescapable part of going away, but it’s just so hideously sweaty, boring and uncomfortable. There are,...

Jun 24, 2012 Like 2 people like this

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With love from Florida (!)

Image via Pinterest I am writing this from my bed of sunburnt pain in sunny Orlando. And by ‘sunny’, I mean ‘really fucking hot’. Although I have had over two decades of British social conditioning...

Jun 12, 2012 Like

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Which Bicycle Bastard Are You?

A-Z of Bad Style: G is for G-Strings

The Worst Dates Ever

A-Z of Bad Style: F is for Faking It

An Epidemic of Mummies’ Boys?

A-Z of Bad Style: E is for Exercise

Public Transport: Top Tips for Non-Motorists

Seven Things Men Find Unattractive About Women

Rejoice! The January Health Kick is Finally Over

Social Media Etiquette: the Ultimate Guide for Oversharers, Attention-Seekers and Morons

A-Z of Bad Style: D is for Designer labels

How Not to Move House

The Spotter’s Guide to Brassieres

The legacy of Sex and the City

A-Z of Bad Style: C is for Clubwear

Booze boycott (sort of)

A-Z of Bad Style: B is for Brassieres

Don’t waste your time on Fifty Shades of Grey

Is chivalry dead?

A-Z of Bad Style: A is for Applebottoms

Shafted by My Little Pony: why girls’ toys suck and boys have all the fun

Style Notes: The Onesie

Style Notes: The Investment Bag

Cosmo Rage: Why women’s magazines are bad for your blood pressure

Beauty Notes: Sunburn

How To: Get what you want from the GUM clinic

The Fab List: 25/06/12

Flying Tips for the Truly Clueless

With love from Florida (!)

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