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    • 04/08/2021
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      10 Things Keeping Me Going Right Now

      Parenting, Personal & Living
      As I write this, we're slowly coming out of another national lockdown here in the UK. West Yorkshire, where I live, has been under lockdown regulations for roughly 3 quarters of the past 365 days, [...]
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    • 04/15/2020
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      Lockdown Diaries – Sourer than Sourdough, Whinier than Wine

      Personal
      My mood has shifted this week. For the first couple of weeks at home I was reasonably sunny: enjoying the privilege of time with my little family, the slower pace of it all. But over the last few [...]
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    • 02/11/2020
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      Before and After: Orla’s bedroom makeover

      Parenting, Personal & Living
      This post is sponsored sustainable Swedish childrenswear brand, Newbie, as part of their 10th birthday celebrations. I've been a very happy Newbie customer for years (Rory even has a tattoo of Orla [...]
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    • 12/24/2019
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      Recipe: Festive Mulled Cider

      Personal & Living
        I don't really like mulled wine. I mean, in theory it's wonderful - warm, festive and alcoholic - but in reality it's always a bit sharp, a bit too sweet, a bit like somebody scraped up the [...]
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    • 02/21/2019
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      It’s PUBLICATION DAY! 🎉

      Work, Personal & Instagram advice
      It feels brilliantly surreal, but today is the day that my book, Hashtag Authentic, wings its way out into the world! If you haven't got your copy yet, here's a little taster of what you can [...]
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    • 10/30/2018
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      In defence of “book selfies”

      Personal
      Yesterday an image of mine, along with one of my friend Carolyn's was featured in a lighthearted critical piece on Vulture. Twelve hours later I got an email from The Guardian asking me for [...]
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    • 03/09/2018
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      Soft, quiet & powerful (or, How to be Underestimated, always)

      Work & Personal
      As a woman in business I am continually underestimated. Actually, scratch that - as a woman on Earth I am continually underestimated, just like the rest of my sex - it’s just that running a [...]
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    • 11/10/2017
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      10 game-changing things I learned about myself & self belief

      Work & Personal
      A few weeks back, in the interval at an event where I was speaking, I bumped into a woman I knew. She'd been a student on The Insta Retreat so this was our first time meeting in real life, and we [...]
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    • 09/22/2017
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      self belief & the hideous sundress

      Personal
      When I was aged 7 or 8, I fell in love with a hideous sundress. It was in this store my mother dragged us around on a weekly basis - an outlet for cheaply-priced factory seconds and unsold stock [...]
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    • 08/28/2017
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      Our Wedding

      Personal
      Oh hey, remember that time I got married? It was a year ago, to be precise - and if you'd asked me then I'd never have believed it would take me a whole 12 months to get around to writing about [...]
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    • 07/21/2017
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      Defining your own success

      Work & Personal
      There's an annoying thing you might notice, if you ever watch Mark Hamill being interviewed. (What do you mean you're unlikely to ever watch Mark Hamill being interviewed?! You should do it for me, [...]
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    • 06/07/2017
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      10 reasons why I’m voting Labour this week

      Personal
      Just a heads up before you read on - I'm getting political here, which is not something I do very often on this blog. If that's not for you, I totally understand - feel free to skip this post, and [...]
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