I have cried approximately 17 times in the past fortnight, sometimes twice a day. I have cried at my desk while working. I have cried in the shower. I have cried myself to sleep watching the horrific videos of elders who look like members of my family in the US […]
I like to joke that I’m not single or taken — instead, I’m in love with a fictional character. Characters, if I’m being honest. Exactly when this gag entered my psyche is lost on me, but it’s been years that I’ve repeatedly raised the eyebrows of those who don’t speak […]
Tanya Wildes, MD, is one of those doctors who was born, not made. She’s known that medicine was her calling since she was four years old, when she instinctively reset her sister’s dislocated finger (please don’t try it at home, she warns). And yet last August, after 12 years of […]
A crowdfunding campaign in memory of Sarah Everard has now raised more than £525,000. The campaign’s organisers, Reclaim These Streets, originally set a £320,000 target. This sum was symbolic, representing the £10,000 fine that 32 planned vigils in Everard’s honour would incur. With their target exceeded by more than £200,000, […]
Despite falling rents in the capital, London is no longer the most searched-for place to live on Rightmove. Thanks to the way the pandemic has changed what people want from their careers and life in general, including greater access to nature, London has been overtaken by Cornwall. The picturesque Cornish […]
The idea of any tattoo is enough to make a needle-phobe squirm, but some spots are more cause for squeamishness than others — like, say, the eyes. However, the area isn’t an uncommon place for ink, particularly when it comes to cosmetic enhancements. In the latest episode of Macro Beauty, […]
Warning: Major spoilers ahead for Sky Rojo season 1 finale, “Bear Trap.” Netflix’s Sky Rojo starts bloody. The crime drama’s very first episode, series premiere “Red Leatherette Sofa,” houses what we’re led to believe are two deaths: the self-defence killing of Las Novias Club owner Romeo (Asier Etxeandia), and the […]
This week begins with a quarter moon in Cancer and the Sun stepping firmly out under the stars of Aries. In Aries, the Sun is bold and not afraid to speak truth to power. The quarter moon forms a square to Aries and the tension between what we need to […]
Glastonbury‘s organisers announced in January that for the second year running, there will be no festival this summer because of the pandemic. “In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth,” co-organisers Michael and Emily Eavis said at the time, “it has become clear that we simply will not […]
The folks at Airbnb has revealed their 21 most wishlisted properties of 2021, and every single one is in the UK. Confirming the growing population of staycations, the properties range from an undercover woodland treehouse in West Sussex to a luxury glamping pod in southwest Wales. Many of the in-demand […]
