Here’s a 90s trend I was feverishly hoping wouldn’t come back in to fashion: brown lipstick.
Also known as, in the words of the infamous Nick Scott, ‘poo sucker’ lipstick.
Certainly makes Katie Puckrik’s biscuit look a whole lot less appetising doesn’t it?
Controversy? I love the word. As I love Nell, all Montagues and thee.
So, let us once again saddle up to the bucking bronco of sexual stereotyping and give shameless cliche a big old kick on the haunches to see where it throws us.
Women love nothing more than ill informed generalisations. Which makes ascribing certain universal [...]
Also known as “Be Profound, Regurgitate.”
If you read the Daily Mail – well, actually let’s stop right there. If you read the Daily Mail, what the HELL are you doing reading this? I mean, seriously, well done on that whole ‘not getting pigeonholed’ thing. But anyway, if you read the Daily Mail then you probably [...]
“10 mins Walk to Homerton Hospital.”
Nell Frizzell
Another column for The Leeds Guide
“Hey guys, guys, yeah, hey guys, hold up. I’ve got, like, this great concept. Let me hit you up with the idea.
Guys? Right. Wellies… yah, but, with… like… little buckles?”
And so, I imagine, the head of ‘creative’ at Twonksphere HQ earned themselves a free lunch and [...]
As you may or may not know, if you apply for indefinite leave to remain in the UK, you have to take a ‘Life in the UK test’.
I thought it would just be a case of naming all the people who’ve had sex on Big Brother and maybe doing the Angela Ripon dance from the [...]
Fashion, as I think we have all agreed, basically exists to make overweight 15 year old look shit and spend money.
For example, walking in to Topshop is like discovering the lost level of Super Mario – to get to the counter you have to bounce from hair mushroom to hair mushroom, scoring points, lost coins [...]
Here at The Women’s Library there is a constant struggle to catalogue all the records, letters and personal papers of those who leave their collections to our archives. Which means that we are still coming across fantastic, previously unknown stories, scandals and anecdotes all the time.
By an amazing stroke of luck, I found this correspondence [...]
Also known as, Am I Accidentally A Pagan?
As a child, it was tradition in my house for the person cutting their birthday cake to ’scream out the devil’.
I had always thought that screaming out the devil was as ubiquitous as making a wish when you blew out the candles, or to take another [...]