Journalism

Style, fashion, beauty, film:

 

  • Fashion on film: five of the very best fashion films

 

  • Sweet smell of success: Britain's long-lived and long-loved beauty products
  • The style icon: Annie Hall


  • The great British bikini

Profiles:

 

  • High pressure but sunny forecast: BBC Weather presenter Helen Young 

 

 

  • Joy in the journey: actress Amanda Root 

 


Spirituality and self-development:

 

  • Red or white? The great poppy debate

 

  • Words of comfort for depression & anxiety
    Inspired by Elizabeth Goudge, novelist & mystic


 

  • Childless by choice — revisited

 

 

  • Three window women: the life of the medieval anchoress 

 



  • Childless, by choice 



  • My healing journey
  • Posada: the run-up to Christmas

 

  • Lockdown made me realise I lack close friends

 


Highlighted feature:

  • Second chance at love

Words by Kate Chapman.

Photography: Jenny Photography

Appeared first in Woman's Weekly, 18 June 2024, issue no. 25.

Reproduced here with kind permission.


Inspiring women:



  • Sheila Scott: British aviation's elegant aviatrix

 

  • Calculating women: the first women actuaries

 

 

  • The Cross and the Countess: the Sierra Leonean legacy of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon

 


Relationships:

  • The dating divorcée: relationship and dating tips and advice

 

  •  Learning to trust again

 

 

  •  No guarantees: even in a 'rock solid' marriage

 

 

  • Why I dumped ‘The Rules’ 

 

  • Jane Austen: date coach

All sorts:

 

  • The problem with calling a phone box a 'library'

 


 

  • Space 1969: Apollo and the British connection

 

  • The curse of the ensuite bathroom
  • Discovering undiscovered Donegal

 

  • ‘Good books for a bad day’: comfort reading

 

  • Rant! Accents and the English