I’m not going to pretend I felt calm when I saw it; my heart raced, I ran short of breath and swallowing suddenly got tough. Only a few paces from me, I saw a man stood with a bright-red spray of blood coming from his neck. You don’t need to
Following the deaths of 52 people during the 7/7 bombings Londoners were nice to each other. Tube journeys weren’t a sea of pushing and shoving, seats were surrendered and for a while the character of the tube commute changed. Claire Squires died a mile from the finishing line at the
Last night, as the result of a young widows campaign #bottlestop came to the nations attention through Twitter. The story behind the hashtag has dominated my thoughts for months. It started at a nightclub in April 2012; a corporate event featuring a red carpet, reality TV celebrities and headlined Jessie
Last night a man was dying right before me, today he’s still critical, fighting for his life. Sadly, an act of senseless violence cast a long shadow over what would otherwise have been reported as a crowning moment for Jessie J and Wretch32. I don’t want to prejudice any legal
Although it doesn’t seem two minutes since the fireworks, you’ve got to the end of February and your plans to be a better you have already long-since faltered – read this, for advice about how to get your year off to a storming start.
I thought that I’d give you a preview of some of my 2011 highlights – both the people and the events, that have shaped my year. If you’ve read my blog before, you’ll know that I started the year and finished it, in different relationships. The pictures chronicle a journey – during which
Today marks a new beginning for me. I move out of what was my marital home, into my own place. We had a very happy life over the six years that we lived here, it has been a very happy home. As I reflect on the 10 years that we had together, I have
On this day in 1997, the words that were immortalised by Baz Luhrmann “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)” are 14 years old. The original article appeared in the Chicago Tribune entitled, “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young”. The author, Mary Schmich set out to write a fictitious
As shameless as it is, I am pulling out the stops to ping
nostalgia & pluck the heart strings.