There are many ways to make it, and I took the long way round. For a while, I was very broken, but for the last thirty years I have mostly been trying to help people make or repair things. It might be furniture, it might be a relationship: it might even be themselves ... This … Continue reading Book Review: Jay Blades – ‘Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life’
Take yourselves back now, to a time when the Spice Girls were just a twinkle in their creator's eye, and when Little Mix were but mere specks in the pop constellations. The year is 1979, and childhood friends Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward have just moved from outside Bristol into the YWCA in London. Little … Continue reading #CrazyStupidBook: Bananarama – “Really Saying Something”
"Why is it called 'Quite'? Well, because it's my favourite word. It's a raised eyebrow, an aside. 'Well, quite.' But at the same time, it's firm, restrained, and it manages your expectations ... and that's what we need, I think." And so begins the first ever book from Claudia Winkleman. To most people, she is … Continue reading #CrazyStupidBook: Claudia Winkleman – “Quite”
Before you read this blog any further, there's a music video I want you to watch. https://youtu.be/DgmoYgpMNX8 This video, from 2011, was by bestselling girl group The Saturdays, for their hit single 'My Heart Takes Over', filmed out in Iceland. To most people, it just seems like a standard pop video for a slower ballad … Continue reading Being open: an evening with Frankie Bridge
Many of pop's greatest icons - and not so greatest, let's be honest - have put pen to paper (or commissioned a ghost writer) and told all about their struggle for success, life at the top, life thereafter, maybe even a second bite at the cherry. But no one, to our recollection, has ever written … Continue reading #CrazyStupidBook: Malcolm McLean (@maltreateddd) – ‘Freak Like Me: Confessions of a 90s Pop Groupie’
Right now, the currency for all things girl power has never been at its highest. Well, since May 1997, anyhow. And in a year which has bought us a Spice Girls comeback stadium tour they said wouldn't happen again after the last one in 2007, the generation that grew up around all things Ginger, Baby, … Continue reading #CrazyStupidBook: Lauren Bravo (@LaurenBravo) – ‘What Would the Spice Girls Do?’
It's been a heck of a year for Giovanna Fletcher - and indeed, since we last reviewed a new book of hers. Not content with topping the bestsellers list in February with Happy Mum, Happy Baby, her frank, moving but funny account of her experiences of motherhood to date, she's trekked across Oman for the … Continue reading #CrazyStupidBook: Giovanna Fletcher – ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’
Hello all! We are back! We've gone and got the decorators in and we've got a shiny new look (and sort of new name) to boot 🙂 I felt with the blog approaching its two year anniversary (go figure) that it was time for a bit of an update. And what better way to kick … Continue reading #CrazyStupidBook: Giovanna Fletcher – “Always With Love”
So the eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed I've not blogged as much or been doing things of the such fun blogging nature for a good few weeks now - last week excepted, and there's a new 'Dear Cat & Fi' coming a bit later. That's because life's been a bit hectic and not … Continue reading #CrazyStupidBook: Giovanna Fletcher – ‘Dream a Little Dream’
And a hearty good afternoon to you all! Once again I have been somewhat sporadic as a...sporadic thing. That's largely because I've had a week off this week - more on which to a certain extent in my next blog which (spoiler alert) is a review of a tour - and numerous other shiz has … Continue reading #AwesomeBoresome (Week ending 10/05/2015)
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