When I was at university completing my postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism, my final project required a trip to London. Specifically the London Zoo.  I was researching the breeding of tigers in captivity by conservationist zoological societies. I wanted to...

I recently went on a date with a (grown) man who offered me lurid details about his colonoscopy. While having a roast beef dinner. Yes ladies and gentlemen, that is what you sometimes must endure when you start looking for...

Dear Hugh, Stop being awesome. If you insist on being awesome, be unmarried. It’s a very unsavoury combination: the fantasy of being Mrs. Jackman incessantly unrealised as you continue being tall, dark, handsome and generally mesmerising. So cool, so centred....

It’s on my cheek as I brush my hair. One long, full eyelash. It starts out thick and tapers to a slim curve. I lean closer into the mirror, lick the tip of my finger and remove it. I wonder...

I went to an all-girls school. We had little awareness of the budding magic of our young bodies, we did not have boyfriends, a party was a sleepover with amateur manicures and gossip. We did not have any internet, our...

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You are the...