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With Valentine’s Day approaching, regardless of whether you or not you will have a date, a cocktail will always go down a treat. These cocktails can be enjoyed as part of your Valentines celebrations with the person you’re seeing. But also, you could invite your friends’ round for a boozy night and impress them with […]
Our society has an ordinary setting for a relationship: monogamy. As we grow and are made more aware of different ways of living through the use of the internet and a more accepting attitude, we are slowly being introduced to polyamory. For those of you who don’t know the difference between polyamory and monogamy, here […]
The 19th of May 2019 was my last day of college, and at the time, I didn’t realise it. There was a short period when all my friends and I thought it was an excuse to have a three-to-four-week holiday, how we were embarrassingly so wrong… I like to keep busy, and like many people […]
Locked in. Isolated. I looked outside my house and it was a ghost town after the first lockdown was announced. The whole process felt so surreal it was almost like a dream- or nightmare. I couldn’t help but have strong feelings of boredom after all the social aspects of my life were cut out. Sure, […]
It sounds so stupid. But the day my jade face roller snapped in two, lying there in my sink, I just thought right, that’s it, the absolute pinnacle. You’re probably thinking why does this even matter? But that’s the strange and funny thing about bad days, you remember all the little details like it was […]
I turned 25 over the Christmas period and one of my birthday gifts was a mental breakdown. I battled with the feeling that, due to Coronavirus, I was missing out on crucial experiences that young people are meant to have. I had a quarter-life-crisis if you will. On reflection, I should be grateful. I was able […]
Lockdown and restrictions on meeting people made my 18th…interesting As someone who thoroughly enjoys celebrating a birthday, when I realised my big 18th birthday would be in lockdown, I was honestly a bit gutted. Every year I plan something full out to do. My original plans were to go to Cardiff with my friends and […]
April 2020, was when I attended my grandad’s socially distanced funeral, which at the time the circumstances were kind of normalised. Yet, looking back, it was a completely bizarre and cold situation. My grandad spent his last months in a care home and with the Covid restrictions at the time, I wasn’t allowed to visit him. Dealing with a death of […]
After looking into coronavirus in Gloucestershire, the facts were very clear. To this date, Gloucestershire have generally done well with the uptake of first and second doses of the Covid vaccine with 12-15-year-olds now being offered their first doses. With the new Omicron variant in the country, boosters are now being rolled out at a […]
There are many differences with covid cases, rates and deaths within the year from November 2020 to November 2021. A year ago, in November 2020, we had just been put into a national lockdown. 12 months down the line, the coronavirus pandemic is still uncertain as we go into the Christmas season, one of the […]