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May 14, 2015 - Written by: Poppy Gillian
Selfies have been around quite a while now. Love them or loathe them it looks like they’re here to stay. When you really think about it, taking a picture of yourself is a bit weird, right? I’m definitely guilty of taking the odd selfie, but I couldn’t imagine constantly uploading new ones to social media – it would be exhausting!... Read the rest of this post...
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March 19, 2015 - Written by: Poppy Gillian
Nearly a year ago, a new girl started work and she is now one of my best friends, I even went to her wedding. It’s strange, isn’t it? Those rare moments when you meet someone and you just click. In some ways you are such different people with different lives, but it’s like you have known each other forever. It’s... Read the rest of this post...
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February 12, 2015 - Written by: Poppy Gillian
A commercial money-making scheme or the most romantic day of the year, whether you love it or hate it, V day is looming. It’s the time of year where people tend to think about their ‘perfect partners’. I know of lots of perfect men, the only problem is that they don’t actually exist. You-Tuber Carrie Hope Fletcher has written a... Read the rest of this post...
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January 15, 2015 - Written by: Poppy Gillian
At the weekend, my sisters and I took my brother out clubbing. He’s just turned 18 and wasn’t sure what to expect. Being the youngest and only boy in our household, he’s been mollycoddled a lot by my mum. She kept nagging him to eat before we went out and told him not to drink anything. She seems to have... Read the rest of this post...
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November 20, 2014 - Written by: Poppy Gillian
Birthdays are funny things, aren’t they? We spend the first 21 years of our lives looking forward to it, and then each year after that less and less so. On my fourteenth birthday I got a guinea pig. On my recent twenty-fourth birthday I spent the day discussing sexual health with teenagers in college (I shouted out the word ‘masturbation’... Read the rest of this post...
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October 16, 2014 - Written by: Poppy Gillian
October is Black History Month, but until now it hasn’t really something I’ve given much thought to before. I’m sure I probably did some lessons in school on it, but I can’t really remember it. When I think about Black History Month, I think of well-known figures such as Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. I have probably heard... Read the rest of this post...
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September 18, 2014 - Written by: Poppy Gillian
Every person’s life goes at a different pace, with lots of twists and turns; some expected, some completely out of the blue. It is very difficult not to compare your life with others; using their milestones as benchmarks for your own. Some of my friends are having children, some are getting married. People I knew at school/college are getting mortgages,... Read the rest of this post...
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August 21, 2014 - Written by: Poppy Gillian
Technology has made loads of things a lot easier – I can’t imagine completing my degree/doing my job/day-to-day life without the use of the internet. But some things have got a lot more complicated. Sometimes I think that being alive a hundred years ago was actually a lot easier than it is today. 100 Years Ago: Girl meets boy at... Read the rest of this post...
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July 17, 2014 - Written by: Poppy Gillian
What do you do if someone tells you that you can’t do something? Do you agree with them, or do you set out to prove them wrong? The more I think about it, the more I realise how often this happens: ‘Perhaps you shouldn’t wear that dress? I don’t think you’ll like doing that. Maybe you should wait until you... Read the rest of this post...
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June 19, 2014 - Written by: Poppy Gillian
At the moment I work as a School Careers Advisor. It’s a bit of a weird situation as my ‘career’ is advising other people about what to do with theirs. It’s true, a lot of the jobs that students mention, such as doctor, accountant, solicitor etc., I have a limited knowledge about as I have never done these jobs before.... Read the rest of this post...
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