Golden Jirl

The Big Society Swindle

Luckily I didn’t find out until 8 pm last night that David Cameron was in the next room announcing his ’vision’ for the world that he wants us to inherit, Why did Mr Cameron choose Liverpool? the historic heartbeat of radical labour movements, a hundred years of workers revolting. We can all continue to ask this why we ponder what impact more volunteers at Museums will have. For that is what he was there to promote. I found it very More

Cancer patient told

Admin is a strange thing, in a flurry of papers and databases, it isn’t surprising if sometimes your appointment for chemical skin peels is canceled or if you’re double booked for a flight to Toronto.

However The Independant reported on an article where a cancer patient was literally told that he’s dead. 63 year old Alan Campbell, who suffers from skin cancer, was shocked to be told the words “You’re dead”when he tried to make an appointment at a hospital. More

Baby Come Back!

I didn’t used to watch The One Show much, I just had it on in the background while I thought about my time spent teaching overseas. And I don’t mean that actually I did used to watch The One Show much and I secretly love it. I really do mean I More

Be Like Mark

Let’s be honest, shall we? Just as some people are not suitable candidates for prime minister – like many of the prime minister’s we have ended up with over the years– – not everyone is a suitable candidate for working from home. Yes, Mark, the quiet guy at the office (doesn’t every office have a Mark?) who works away without needing to be told to get a move on is always going to do far better at this than overweight More

Tips for Useless Savers

I was always really good at saving money, but all that changed one day when I discovered that wondrous thing called “chocolate”. Suddenly, saving money was extremely difficult, and adding to my problem was the fact that when I was a child “Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory” was an absurdly popular film. Those were tough times!

I talk about chocolate in relation to this article (which is about the following blog post) because I was eating a bar More

Secrets, Sorry and Sandra!

Sandra Bullock is full of mystery these days. Though the actress has been hounded by the paparazzi in the recent times, no one could have known what Sandra intended to pull out of the bag. In the midst of all the media glare and hype, The Blind Side star managed to adopt a baby boy and file for divorce! While the divorce isn’t surprising considering soon to be ex beau, Jesse James’ antics (who if you ask me could benefit More

If Only…

People who want to meet at precise times, like the scandalous quarter-to-four, half-five and seven p.m. get on my nerves. It’s so rigid, isn’t it? I’m a girl and I work in the city and rigid is the last thing I need. It might be good on some occasions, but it’s also a pain. I mean, why can’t we all meet up at seven-minutes-past-eight and nine-minutes-to-three?

If women were in charge of the world then I doubt we’d even need More

Listen: This Is Very important

Pouting is a hard thing to do. Really hard. Not just anyone can do it. But here is the disgusting thing, people–So many people think they can!

After the release of that film Zoolander, everyone on earth thought they could pout and pout well. Suddenly, after a million year pout-drought, the streets and fields and cities of this world were FULL of pouting enthusiasts who thought that just by watching a film they could cut it with the best More

Girls…Be More Careful

Sometimes you say you’ll do something–(like say “yes"to some trial Hair loss medication on a small patch of your leg in exchange for money and discover that it’s more powerful than the lady told you…and you get a hellish rash!) And it transpires that you really should have thought a bit more about it first–

Like Last Thursday. Last Thursday I had had it with my friend Barry. He was moaning, again, about how hard being a man was, and More

The 50%

There’s around a 50% chance that you’re a woman if you’re reading this (because men want to read about women just as much as women want to read about men). Man or woman, the case in point is irrelevant: I have something to say, and it’s as true as the fact that you will loose weight after undergoing gastric balloon surgery. Here it is: I’m sick of women making out that while they are having a period, they are More