As a 23-year-old with an obsession with vanilla lattes, eyeliner, books and band t-shirts, I’ve had to work hard to develop any sort of money-saving skills. Thursdays after work used to be spent strolling around my local shopping centre on its late night evening with my friends, buying hair products, […]
I’ve written before about the negative impacts that wearing make-up can have on you. Don’t get me wrong, I love make-up, I have a box (or two) filled to the brim with eyeliners, mascaras, every colour eyeshadow under the sun and all different shades of lipsticks. And I hardly ever […]
I’ll start off by saying, I’ve always hated exercise. The very thought of venturing outside into the freezing cold abyss for a run instead of settling down with a nice cup of tea in the evening gives me flashbacks to my school days. PE classes were the bane of […]
Ask a passer-by what they think of the younger generation and most will give you the same sort of answer. They’re lazy, entitled, afraid of commitment and too much like hard work. And they’re obsessed with Starbucks, lattes, snapchat and Netflix. Oh, and don’t forget that they never stop complaining […]
Christmas is a time for joy, family, presents, mince pies and maybe having one too many glasses of bubbly. It’s the time of year we stress about for months on end; we save our money up to buy the best presents, so we can have the best dinner and the […]
What would we do without our hourly Instagram update or our lunchtime flick through Facebook? Social media is arguably the most popular phenomenon of modern day life. There are so many forms – Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter… even LinkedIn is a social alternative to job searching. Later generations will not […]
Just picture it, you’ve turned up to the interview of your dream job, you’re punctual, you’re looking smart and you’re confident that you are perfect for the role. You sail through the interview and you tick all the boxes but you don’t get the job. Why? Because you’ve got a […]
As a friend and I hurriedly scribbled our names down on The Chartwell Cancer Trust’s tandem skydiving registration form, I wondered what I had gotten myself into. A 12,000ft freefall out of a plane, in all honesty doesn’t exactly scream ‘fun’ to me. However, after participating in the unforgettable ‘Moonwalk’ […]
How do you spend your free time? Kick back and relax? Pick up a book? Do you binge on that new Netflix show? Book-keeping student Maria Adam, aged 23, from Kent, spends her spare time volunteering and helping her community. “It’s a nice thing to do to get out of […]
It’s 7am on the morning of Saturday 26th May and over 2,000 participants are setting off from Richmond Park in London, running, jogging or walking a 62.5 mile route to Brighton. And they raised more than £1 million for a multitude of charities as part of The London2Brighton Challenge which […]