It’s January. We can bet you have dusted off your trainers, dug out the gym card and signed up for another healthy eating plan to get those pounds shifting.
It’s now halfway through the month that sees most of us embark on a crazy regime that is unmanageable and unsustainable until we find a routine that works. How are you doing? Hopefully you may have made some headway and worked off the Christmas party calories at least, but maybe you aren’t feeling as healthy as you w...
BITCH:LIFE
17 Jan 2011 15:00 GMT
I am not the only person to have spent what feels like forever clogged up with the dreaded lurgy. Almost everyone I know has had this winter’s particularly nasty cold/flu bug, which has been sweeping my friendship groups with a ferocity I don’t think I have ever actually seen before.
If you have been afflicted, you’ll know it – that long and debilitating period of proper flu, then the slow and horrible recovery period that goes through coughs, snuffles, headaches and sinusitis....
BITCH:LIFE
14 Jan 2011 15:00 GMT
In the rush of post-holiday depression and intense workouts, whether required by your resolutions or the amount of snow piling up around your home, you're bound to need a bit of a break. Some sort of Zen-like activity would be perfect, wouldn't it? Even if you’re not in the midst of a country beset by madmen and flying bullets, you probably want something peaceful to take your mind off those things about now.
BITCH:LIFE
13 Jan 2011 18:00 GMT
A lot of people in the media and online world are obsessing over trends for the future. Fashion trends, beauty trends, heck, we've even giving our own predictions for tech trends in the coming year.
However, there is one trend that seems to be a hot topic that I'm actually genuinely interested.
BITCH:LIFE
12 Jan 2011 18:00 GMT
We all know that the old idea of a neighbourhood, a community, has been shot to shit with the creation of the internet, with the growth of the individual, with the self-obsessed way society now likes to live. Old people stay in their houses, young professionals ignore their neighbours, and kids are good for nothing more than violence and ASBOs. At least, this is the picture the media seems to have painted over the past few years.
BITCH:LIFE
07 Jan 2011 15:30 GMT
Every January you think about a personal make-over, sometimes one that lasts past the 31st, but isn't it about time you dealt with that other problem?
I ignore all the resolution making, diet fads and gym invitations of January. Habits taken up in the middle of winter seldom stick. There's too little distraction and too much of a temptation to sit at home, eat carbs, and blame your already too low self-esteem for making you such a failure...
BITCH:LIFE
06 Jan 2011 19:00 GMT
Every one has a food secret. Even the person who fills their fridge with farmer's market items, with a shrine to Alice Waters right above their sink, has an item they've ingested that they're not so proud of.
A culinary indiscretion, akin to a dude you refuse to friend on Facebook because you don't want anyone to know. But, despite how hard you try to stay on the correct foodie path, you can't resist the temptation.
BITCH:LIFE
05 Jan 2011 19:00 GMT
A new year is once again upon us, and you know what that means. As well as the inevitable hangover from the often slightly disappointing new year's eve celebrations, there will probably also be a slight nagging feeling in the back of your mind that you should perhaps do some things differently in 2011. All the mess you made, deadlines you missed and plans you abandoned in 2010 can surely be remedied in the twelve months ahead, so it's time for a new year's resolution o...
BITCH:LIFE
30 Dec 2010 19:00 GMT
As we begin to compile our resolutions for the New Year, it is important to keep one golden French rule in mind....
One of the many lessons I’ve learned living in Paris, in a spatially challenged apartment, is that less usually is more. Of course, as is true for most things in life, it requires a certain degree of distance to be made fully aware of this simple truth. Thrust back into the land of big cars, big houses, big meals, big mouths ...
BITCH:LIFE
30 Dec 2010 17:00 GMT
Amongst the hordes of swag out there for little 'uns, where can you most effectively spend your hard-earned cash to grab a sale bargain at the end of December?
Despite endless lists of 'essentials' for babies, there are actually relatively few and even those I've included are not all really necessary; most genuine essentials are for cleaning up some sort of spill (you can never have too many muslin cloths) or making sure the baby is properly dress...
BITCH:LIFE
29 Dec 2010 13:00 GMT