Category Archives: Health
The poet, new friends and fifty strangers: a Christmas story.
Sunday. How I love Sunday. We wake just before ten to catch Radio 4’s finest, and with breakfast in bed relax to the familiar theme tunes that herald our favourite listening. All this before rising to buy flowers on Columbia … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Entertaining, Family, Food and wine, Friends, Health, Home, Life and romance, London, Uncategorized
Tagged Albion & Boundary, Beauty Story, Body Shop, Budgens, Curry's, Dixons, Emrys Architects, Eyre Brothers, Genesis Cinema, Hammade, Harringtons, Harvey Goldsmith Productions, Hix Restaurants, Honey Kalaria, Jamal Delights, L'Oreal, Leon, London Small Business Centre, Lush, Marvling Bros, Moore Stephens, Moroccan Essentials, Mr Start, O'Oreal, Outstanding Careers Limited, PC World, Rachael Smith, Rapha, Sainsbury's, Skin & Tonic, Stirling Ackroyd, The Rivington, Toni & Guy, Urban Species, Vogue
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Diaries: soulmates, dates and derring-do.
“I need the dates of all the countries I have visited since 2005,” said The Exocet from Australia. “Could you please try and remember when and where we went on holidays and trips away?” Of course my darling; I have … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Entertaining, Family, Feminism, Friends, Health, Home, Life and romance, London, Motherhood, Uncategorized
Tagged Bethnal Green, boyfriend, children, Dating, diaries, diary, Family, life, memento, memories, Romance
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A new life-work balance … with buttercups and daisies
The start of this year heralded what I have come to think of as The Cancer Months, now happily behind me. Life has settled into a slower steadier pace; my body won’t accept any more or less and I listen … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Family, Friends, Health, Home, Life and romance, London
Tagged Bethnal Green, Bottega, business, cancer, Curtain Road, flowers, healthcare, meadow, medicine, Peezy, Rivington, Shoreditch, walking, work
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Moving out, moving in: one street and a grand new chapter
“October,” he said. “I’ll need the house back for my daughter.” My landlord sounded vaguely apologetic but businesslike on the phone. I had been his tenant for nearly seven years, moving in a hurry to escape with my daughters from … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Feminism, Friends, Health, Life and romance, London, Motherhood, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged boyfriend, Daughers, evolution, growing-up, happiness, life, motherhood, moving house, parenthood, travel
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Face to a Name: the dementia care revolution unmasked
One rainy January afternoon, I made my way West to meet up with a business colleague for a long overdue exchange of news. Over coffee in the congenial surroundings of Soho House, Jake Arnold Forster described his work with organisations … Continue reading
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Tagged Age UK, alzheimers, Alzheimers Society, CareScape, COBIC, dementia, Face to a Name, Forte Medical, healthcare, healthcare campaign, hospital, Many Happy Returns, memory, My Life Software, patient, photographs, revolution, St Frances Hospice Berkhamsted, The Times, This is Me, Whose Shoes, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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The holiday: Gozo far … and find unspoiled heaven
Sunbather from ancient Gozo Excitement mounted as my long awaited, high-pamper-factor, sun-filled holiday hove into view, destination Gozo, a tiny island of the Maltese archipelago, which lies about 80km south of Sicily and 290km north of Africa. As yet unsullied … Continue reading
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Tagged Food, friends, Gozo, Health, holiday, Malta, sun, Ta'Cenc, Ta'Mena, tan, wine, Xlendi
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