Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the UK today. It claims the lives of 12,300 women every single year, 1,300 of these cases will be in women under the age of fifty, with 44,000 women diagnosed every year in this country. That's over one hundred women a day that will receive the dreaded diagnosis. Many of them will have life insurance and will be able to claim on their...
In this time of economic hardship for many it is easy to slip into depression. Doom and gloom is reported all the time, food and fuel prices are rising daily, jobs are less secure, strikes are breaking out over pay up and down the country and homes are being repossessed every day.
But take a look back in history. We are still here. We have been through worse and come out the other side to a...
Architectural visualisation has come in many shapes and forms over the years. We've seen the ideas from ancient civilisation that consisted of huge stone structures, remnants of which still remain today. We see all around us the architectural visualisation of the Victorians. Obsessed with the ornate styling of the gothic trends of the time, they were very keen on gargoyles, spires and lots of...
Have we really come to the point where health and safety training is needed before our children can enjoy a day at the park? It would seem the days of boys being boys and girls being tomboys are over. Those were the days, when I was younger, that we would go climb trees for fun, sometimes hang about in the play park swinging upside down from anything that looked suitably dangerous and generally...
Not many people would disagree when I say that we now live in a very shallow world where image is everything. We see celebrities in the news that drop their babies, start pounding the pavements with a personal trainer and within weeks are back in their size zero jeans of pre-pregnancy fit. This often makes the rest of us, the normal women that can't afford personal trainers, feel fat and...
What is it with today's fashions? I know it makes me sound old and I don't care. Proud to turn forty this week, I like to think I know a bit about life, about the times when it's good to follow the crowd and the times when it's best to be an individual. You don't get to forty without knowing your own body either, without knowing just what you can wear and what to steer clear of.
Of course,...
How can there be anything more annoying than your ink cartridge running dry? It will never be at a time when you are printing off a recipe that you might use one day in the future or when you're copying a funny from the paper to send to someone. No, you never run out of ink at such times. Only when there is a really important letter you need to get out or a CV for the job of your dreams that...
We are inundated with advertising offering the services of injury lawyers. For every trip, slip or bump we can, apparently, make a claim against someone or other. There are lawyers in abundance that will do our bidding for us, earning themselves a nice tidy sum in the process. This has led to a compensation culture whereby everyone is so afraid of getting sued that they insist on enforcing the...
With all the reports that we see today about global warming, we all have a duty to do our bit for the environment. Even for those in opposition to the global warming theory, even they can suggest it would be a bad thing to reduce the amount of pollution we breathe in. If nothing else, it will be better for our health and for the health of our children if we can keep the air as clean as...
With the sad news this week of the death of Sergeant Sarah Bryant whilst serving with the British Army in Afghanistan the question is once again raised about whether or not women should be in uniform, performing such risky jobs.
There can't be many people in the UK these days that wouldn't agree with equality. Of course women can serve the country as well as the men but do they really need...
