The year is drawing to a close, and December is finally here! Christmas will be with us sooner than we think, a time that every one of us has our annual traditions for; those special things we enjoy…
On Friday this week, it will be the fifth annual Wear Yellow Day for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, and the third year running that I have chatted about it here on the blog. In previous years, I have…
Today marks not only the welcome end of an INCREDIBLY warm week, it’s also the fourth annual CF Trust Wear Yellow Day which is your chance to get involved and support a great cause by posting your ‘yelfie’. Wear something…
***This is a guest post by Andrew Godfrey-Meers, a PhD student writing about comics, disability and performance at the University of Dundee. Find him on Twitter here. All NHS demo photography c/o Andrew Godfrey-Meers. *** The NHS & Me…
As I’m sure you’ll know by now, this Sunday is Mother’s Day in the UK. I’m not usually too sentimental about it, but my Mum reeeeeeeally is; me and my brother are on pain of death to never…
I bloody love engagement stories. The small ones, the silly ones, the magical ones. The grand gestures, the intimate ones and the ones caught on video that go viral; I lap that shit up. I didn’t always love to…
So this is it, my last post of 2016. What a ride it’s been! To round off the year I decided to check out my blog stats for the last 12 months and find out which of my posts have been…
Last week an exciting new online magazine, She Might Be, launched in the UK. Why is this one exciting, you might ask? Well, it’s the first of it’s kind in that it focuses on plus size fashion, beauty…
Over the years I have read all manner of plus size styling tips and tricks to hide this, accentuate that, flatter my size and style my body in all kinds of ways. After trying them all (and yeah, I really…
For a variety of reasons, the weeks leading up to my birthday are not always my fave. Every year since my teens I’ve had a tendency to get tense about it and will reel off huge lists of all…
A couple of weeks ago, Georgina Grogan (of She Might Be Loved) ran a series of guest posts on her blog under the umbrella of ‘Chronic Pain Awareness Week’. I found it incredibly eye-opening in so many ways, not least…
Here we are in July already, I can’t quite believe it! As well as being the halfway point for the year, July 1st also marks the third year of the CF Trust’s Wear Yellow Day and it’s your chance to…
