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Shopping for your shape!

by Pipa on March 1, 2011

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but just about every trend is out and about on the high street at the moment – as exciting as it sounds, it tends to make the decision making process even more tricky than before, however, it does mean that every body shape is catered for! So, how do [...]

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Make up….do we really need it to feel good?

by Pipa on January 31, 2011

Research across 2,000 adults was published at the beginning of this year that was fascinating. It discovered that 4 in 10 women always put make up on before leaving the house and 1 in 10 women have never been without make up in front of their life partner. Two thirds of women questioned said they [...]

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Lose Weight Without Going On A Diet

by Pipa on January 3, 2011

Are you rubbing your eyes? Can it be possible?? We all know a diet can be potentially successful on the short term however, research and experience shows us that diets just don’t work.  The reason being is simple, our weight isn’t purely dictated by what we eat! Nor is it sharing the responsibility with the [...]

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Do you feel like 2010 just chewed you up and spat you out? Are you reeling from a whirlwind year of a million things happening but yet you can’t really remember anything significant? ….or particularly good? Were you standing there on New Year’s Eve holding your glass saying “well there goes another year then” ? [...]

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Happy – Are you?

by Pipa on November 30, 2010

Everywhere we turn everyone is talking about rating happiness since David Cameron unveiled his proposal to rate British happiness and wellbeing. This of course has sparked endless conversations online, on radio, on TV – everywhere! We talked about it last week on BBC Radio Londo, Jeremy Vine was discussing it this morning on Radio 2, [...]

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Learn to manage the stress in your life! I decided to look into this topic as I have over the last few years noticed how stress has taken it’s toll on so many people’s physical wellbeing. Our bodies don’t actually know the difference between what’s real and what we’re thinking about or perhaps even just [...]

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Being Bullied at Work

by Pipa on October 1, 2010

Bullying?… Not just in the playground … By Alice Todd For three years I,  Alice Todd, was bullied.   There, I’ve said it! That wasn’t so hard … it’s taken me seven years to admit it out loud because I wasn’t bullied at school. I was bullied at work. I was 30 years old, in a [...]

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Glad to say The Fashion Detective is back, the gorgeous Jo Payton…. over to you Jo: Pipa blogged about new looks for Autumn/Winter last month and, as she pointed out, you’re going to be enjoying a lot of black, a lot of texture and (just when you thought it was safe to call it ‘cream’ [...]

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Feminism is an incredibly broad arena which we can discuss at different levels. This post is purely about how the affect of feminism has changed the way we have long term / life partner / marital relations….. There was an interesting inteview in the papers this month with Fay Weldon, author and feminist icon saying  [...]

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How Old Am I? By Guest Blogger Karen Donnelly

by Pipa on September 4, 2010

Do you remember as a child being told that your school days are the best of your life? Or that if you only knew then what you know now! Well it’s sad to say that I have had recurring echoes of these and similar conversations more frequently lately. It is almost as though they are [...]

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