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Please Keep Checking Ladies …..

by Pipa on April 2, 2012

In September 2006 my younger sister (40 years old) rang me to tell me she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She was so calm about it and went on to tell me that she had found a lump months ago but did nothing about it. She went on to have a double mastectomy and was so [...]

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A couple of years ago, Denise did a very brave thing and walked away from her career of more than 20 years, left behind the negative stress and bullying that she had become accustomed to dealing with and began her own jewellery designing business from her kitchen table. Here’s her story of what happened next, [...]

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My name is Devon and I grew up in a small mountain town in California, USA. Being one of 6 children and the youngest girl, you can imagine the chaos that swirled around our tiny home during my childhood years. Having siblings much older than me was an incredible gift, one I wouldn’t trade for [...]

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Breast Cancer Care Awareness Month

by Pipa on October 1, 2010

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month so we wanted to promote the great work that Breast Cancer Care does, highlight their annual fundraising dinner and fashion event on 6th October in London (here’s a clip) and talk about the disease and how you can be more aware: Every year nearly 46,000 people receive the devastating [...]

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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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