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Slow Roast Lamb Shoulder and Leftovers
I once cooked this for a big luncheon party alongside a nice, rare, roasted leg of lamb and everyone ignored the leg to tuck into the shoulder. The shoulder is cooked long and slow and is so tender by...
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'You Will Not Surely Die' - Art, Consciousness and Immortality
The above picture was going around Facebook the other day, posted I think as a kind of spiritual pick-me-up, an encouragement to live life to the full and get out there and create wonderful things....
View ArticleTrans Suicide - The Unspoken Epidemic
I want to dedicate this post to Leelah Alcorn. I'm a little angry and here's why: in 2014 and every year before that I have read story after story about young LGBT people taking their own lives, being...
View ArticleYou're Going To Be Fine
You're going to be fine. But it might take a month or a year or four precious hours of unbroken sleep. You're going to be fine. But there's hard days still to come, and then better ones, and then worse...
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America Crowns Beauty Pageant Winner
Miss Colombia Emma Stone was crowned the winner at the Miss Universe SAG Awards beauty pageant in Miami Los Angeles on Sunday night. Fighting off fierce competition from dozens of other women,...
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The Most Magical New Year in NYC
To say my New Year was amazing, would be an understatement. I stayed in a beautiful hotel, I watched fireworks at midnight in Central Park... Oh, and I got engaged (read the full story on my blog)! So...
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The Vogue Guide to Choosing the Perfect Engagement Ring
By Ciara Quinn Here at Vogue, we've seen many a wedding, whether it be printed between the glossy pages, or attending those of our nearest and dearest. So we know that, amidst the magic there's often...
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Authoritarian and Motivational Weight Loss Hypnosis Sees Sister Lose Six Stone
"Right now I have to warn you that you are too fat and I am concerned," I explained to my sister. It was the line that made her sit up and listen, and go on to lose six stone. I recall the time I would...
View ArticleStraight People Guess What Eight Gay Phrases Mean - With Hilarious Results
So we all know that pockets of society love their lingo, and the Gay community are no different. When I first entered Gay-Land I had no idea what a Pillow Princess was, or why people kept telling me I...
View ArticleThree Ways to Come Out at Work
We've all been there. You're starting a new job, and whether you're obviously gay and it's easy to spot or you're more Lipstick, it's time for you to come out all over again. We all know that coming...
View ArticleHow to Stick to Your Dating Resolutions
"New year, new you?" How often have you uttered those words and then fallen off the wagon a few days later? By the end of January, it's a fairly safe bet that most of us have already broken a few of...
View ArticleWhat 100 Days of Sobriety Taught Me About Life
They say it takes 21 days to break a habit. How about 50 days? Or 75? Or even 100 days? For me, that day has just passed and, with it, a milestone I can't remember seeing in my adult life. Yep, a dry...
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Girls As Young As 10 Label Themselves Negatively, With Over 75% Of Women...
A whopping three quarters of women worldwide are likely to be affected by labels and stereotypes, according to a new study. So much for women's lib, research reveals that one-dimensional labels such as...
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Husband Delayed Lung Cancer Treatment To Get Married, But Died In The Arms Of...
A young bride has told how her groom delayed having vital medical tests for lung cancer so he could get married – only to die in her arms just weeks after the wedding. Doctors advised Jamie Roper, 46,...
View ArticleWhy Premature Ejaculation is a Sensitive Subject
Male banter about sex may be the norm, but there are certain aspects of it that men are usually less keen to speak openly about - with one of the biggest being the subject of premature ejaculation....
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The Loss of What Could Be
We make plans. Big and small, we make countless numbers of them throughout our life. From what to eat for lunch to quitting a job or having a baby, we make decisions of various significance daily. And...
View Article'Leaning In' or the New Feminist Tsunami
A close look at the waves of feminism through history reveals feminist predecessors were women who refused to be adaptive to the status quo. They were marked by trailblazing, taking on challenges, and...
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Making the Private Public: How 'Honest Blogging' Made Me Braver in Real Life
The lovely Emma Gannon recently posted a piece with her blogging predictions for 2015. One of these was the rise of "honest blogging", with a prediction of a rise in thoughtful bloggers sitting...
View ArticleWhy #SmearForSmear Selfies Aren't The Way To Beat Cervical Cancer
This week Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are awash with pictures of women who've smeared lipstick across their own faces. Surprisingly, these dodgy selfies are not the result of drunken make-up...
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Kate Middleton Rendered Terrible After Botched Photoshop Job On Australian...
An Australian magazine has been shamed on social media after photoshopping Kate Middleton's beautiful face and making her look, well, terrible. Don't believe us? Take a look.. Australia, WTF have you...
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