I met up with two of my blog buddies, Sarah Akwisombe and Dewbien last week. We meet to have a bit of a round table, exchange ideas and the like and a number of interesting topics came up. One of whi...
Valentine’s Day is one of those days that people either love or hate. I’ve always felt that if you love someone, you shouldn’t need a special day dedicated to expressing it. But hey...
Do you do a lot of web-lusting? I do. Web-lusting is the term I use to describe the hours I spend online lusting after various things, mainly clothes and accessories (lately, particularly Alexander M...
It was the Grammy Awards last night. Chris Brown was performing. You know, he of Rihanna-beating fame? The night before the Grammys in 2009, he beat his then girlfriend Rihanna so hard she was hospit...
You’d be hard pushed to find someone these days who isn’t on some sort of social network. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram…the list goes on. People use them for all ...
I started running in July 2010. Yesterday, I was going back through my old YouTube videos and found this one that I made after my second run. It’s all about how much I hate running and how awfu...
We’ve all been there, had that stuck-in-a-rut feeling and asked ourselves ‘is this it? Is this life?’ I read a postcard on Post Secret the other day that read: ‘Every single d...
How are you gonna #makeitcount this year?
This blog reaches a variety of people. One of the reasons I started it was basically to start discussions. Over the four years this has been up and running, I’ve had many great conversations wi...
This right here is the first video from my brother’s band, ‘Alaska’. The song is called ‘Girl’ and they’re pretty damn awesome. You can buy their EP here. And rath...
‘Forgive and forget’ is a notion that’s bandied around often. Easier said than done. Obviously, it all depends on the circumstances and what exactly it is that we’re forgiving...
The world’s been distressing me recently amigos. Be it the story of the train conductor who tried to get two teens who hadn’t paid off his train and was stabbed for doing so. Or the inter...
This blogging game is hard work, especially if it’s not just your sideline or hobby, but what you actually do. It’s a constant hustle, there is no ‘off’ time, no office hours....
There are certain moments in life where you learn a lot about yourself. They can be brief, fleeting moments that, if you’re not paying attention, can just fly right by without you noticing. I w...
The Team Bangs on the Run training for the Berlin Half Marathon is now in full effect and the girls are off to a cracking start. Though our official training plans didn’t start til the second w...
A couple of months ago, I took my Team Bangs on the Run girls to Nike Town to have their gait analyses done and said to a friend of mine who works there ‘I’ve just brought my bitches in f...
Just over a year ago, I wrote a blog post that gave me serious anxiety. It was about how I suffer with acne. When you have bad skin, you spend your whole life covering it up, literally and metaphoric...
It’s an odd thing where you can’t speak about achievements in a matter of fact way. Anything alluding to some form of success must be preceded with a ‘sorry’ or ‘I don&#...
Last Friday, a news story swept around the internet faster than…well, faster than it would have in print. It was about a woman named Julia. Julia had met a nice chap while on holiday in Ibiza (...
The very first blog post I did on here back in 2007 was entitled 51 Things You Should Know About Me. I figured some time has passed and by now there are surely 50 more things I can share with you. As...
With a New Year comes all the lame resolutions everyone likes to make about stopping smoking, going on a diet or signing up to the gym. Yawn. Most people fail – mainly because to place such imp...
I met with a PR last week who regaled me with stories of how she gets bombarded with requests for free product from bloggers. Oh dear. I always feel a little embarrassed as a blogger when I hear that...
Wu Tang said it best: Protect Ya Neck. As the temperature drops, it’s time to get cosy with knits and wool and snuggly things. I’ve recently been lucky enough to receive some very lovely ...
Last week I ran a competition to win a limited edition ghd Scarlett Collection straighteners kit. One thing I learned: people really love GHDs! That is one seriously in demand piece of hair equipment...
You may have heard me raving on Twitter about Sexy in the City Bootcamp. I’ve been going for a few weeks now – I like to do different types of exercise to balance out my running and stren...
A couple of weeks ago, I saw an article in The Evening Standard that had three female athletes done up to the nines (the go to fashion shoot for female sportswomen – ‘let’s make the...
I’m not sure when it becomes such a benchmark, but it does and it seems to for all women: ‘By 30, I’ll have done X, Y and Z.’ The big 3-0 carries a lot of weight with womankin...
Hey, do you like hair? Do you like winning things? Then have I got a prize for you! ghd, the ultimate in sleeky hair straighening stylish goodness, has released this uber exclusive Scarlet Collection...
The wait is finally over! Take a look at the badasses above – that right there my friends, is the new Team Bangs. After the raging success of Team Bangs on the Run 1 (in Paris) and 2 (in Greenw...
We hear arguments all the time that social media is not all that social at all – that it is, in fact, making us drift apart as a society. We’re becoming disengaged from ‘real life&#...
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