Dear Lovelies, (and you are just that … lovely) I’m writing this to you as a teacher, a friend, a body positive activist and as someone who has been a teenager (and a fully grown assed lady) with serious body issues. I want to talk to you about my experience, my history and my present […]
In the late summer of 2012 I gots me a new job, it was at a tough school in inner London but I was up for the challenge. I needed a new start, a different story, in order to try and move on from the disaster zone that had been the previous academic year. Anyway, […]
Download, Therapy and the Light at the end of the Tunnel So my 2012 cataclysmic year wasn’t just filled with doom. There was hope in that story. Firstly despite feeling dreadful, my first act of “Single life rebellion” was brought on during a girlie night of takeaways and wine. Designed to aid my recovery from […]
Not Just An Awfully Scripted Disaster Movie… Based on the premise that the Mayan Calendar predicted the end of the world through a series of cataclysmic events, John Cussack (whom I normally adore, with his foppish good looks and doe eyed stare) basically fumbles through a shit load of awful events that basically end […]
I’m probably jumping a big gap here but I’ll try and fill in the necessary information. So suffice to say my lack of self-esteem didn’t seem to matter in the classroom, in fact I’d find to my detriment that I may even be a little too confident, but that’s a later story (me vs […]
The 90s During the late 90s as I was heading off to university, my mum and I were involved in doing charity work. We went out to an orphanage in Romania to take out aid, as well as throwing Christmas parties for the youngsters. It was an incredibly eye opening experience, coming from my […]
University Back at the end of my A-levels I started to experiment a little more with my style. I got my navel pierced and this meant I now had to show it off. I was a size 14 and I thought I was enormous, but… BUT… I had done this very cool thing and […]
The 90s In the early 90s became obsessed with Heathers at Secondary school. This did not help my street credit anymore than the tent like skirt I hid my tubby little body under. However, this film was a revelation to me, Winona Ryder was quirky, smart and had “transitioned” in to a popular kid from […]
The late 80s/early 90s For teenage me in the late 80’s, early 90’s there were several influences on my life and feelings. I was entering secondary school. I was shit scared of having to go to BIG SCHOOL, mostly because I was terrified of PE, as well as being a plump little fish in a […]
