Here are some delicious and healthy ideas for using up the turkey and ham leftover from Christmas day; balancing out the inevitable over-indulgence of the festive season, and leaving you feeling light and nourished. If […]
Health and happiness in the New Year
It’s a classic New Year’s resolution – to want to be healthier. However, first of all, to get there, we need to try to have realistic aesthetic goals. If we try to look like other […]
MENTAL HEALTH A-Z: I is for Invisible Illness
With the white picket fence, perfectly tended to garden, and beautiful-yet-cosy living room, everything looks perfect when you peer in through the window. You’ve heard rumours that the people living there argue, that somebody is […]
Iconic Fashion in Film
When you think of the most iconic fashion moments in film, Audrey Hepburn’s classic ensemble of black dress, black gloves and pearls or Marilyn Monroe surrounded by billowing white tend to come to mind. But […]
Amazon TV: Man in the High Castle
With Netflix pulling in the views and the phrase of the year, Amazon have seriously stepped up to the stage with their adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel Man in the High Castle. Set in […]
Technology Takes Over Fashion
Each year the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Vogue co-host the fashion event of the year, the Costume Institute Benefit, a.k.a. the Met Gala, in New York. In 2014 a ticket would set you back […]
Review: Bridge of Spies – A hot-blooded Cold War thriller
Written (at least in part) by the Coen Brothers, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance, I was sold on Bridge of Spies a long time ago. It boasted a deep […]
Freeview flicks of the week: Cool Runnings, The Hobbit and Catch Me If You Can
Sunday 27th Hugo 3.35pm Channel 4 Hugo acts as director Martin Scorsese’s love letter to the art of filmmaking. Essentially a family film, its plot revolves around a young orphan boy living in a busy […]
The Great Migration sweeps across Tanzania
In June I went on the trip of a lifetime to the second largest continent in the world, the elephant ear-shaped landmass that is Africa. More specifically, the immense game reserves of Tanzania. Our first […]
Great British Bake Off: Christmas Masterclass
Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood were back on our screens last Thursday for a Great British Bake Off Masterclass. Watching them cooking and joking together did feel a bit like sneaking into the staffroom at […]
Rick and Morty: Back to the Future on acid
Cartoons are no longer just for kids. They’ve turned into a viable medium for, in most cases, comedy, perhaps because the sight of an anthropomorphic horse (Bojack Horseman, to be specific) dryly commenting on his […]
Christmas songs – bah-humbug or can’t get enough?
It’s mid-August and my iPod is on shuffle in my car. To my horror, Bing Crosby starts to croon about white Christmases through my stereo and I have to hurriedly skip the song. The sun […]