As the season turns from Autumn to Winter, decreasing daylight hours and the drawing in of the days can have a darkening effect on our spirits, making us feel a little flatter than normal. The effect of this adjustment to a reduction in daylight hours is well known to many […]
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Preparations for Christmas are well under way, with food shopping taking on a different dimension at this time of the year, as we purchase herbs and spices we normally do not use. The spices include cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger, cardamom, allspice, and star anise. The herbs commonly used at Christmas […]
Women of all ages come under huge pressure to achieve unrealistic levels of perfection; personal, professional, physical, sexual, spiritual and psychological. I wanted to write a piece about how amazing women are, well, because we are. I have an opinion that may horrify many; I don’t think our 1970s feminist […]
