Anyone over a certain age will remember the agony and panic of trying to send an SMS message in the early 2000s.
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My Made Up Problem
Yesterday was just like any Sunday; beginning with scrambled eggs and The Big Questions. What can I say, I’m a simple soul. However, like many Sundays in my life, it was also augmented in one other, God-sent way: no plans to leave the house = no reason to put on any make up.
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Voluntourism: Who Is It Helping?
One fateful day when I was young, free and hopelessly naive, I left Heathrow Airport on a eleven-hour flight for the tropical paradise that is Costa Rica. This was to be the first leg of my ‘gap year’ abroad, volunteering at a Sea-Turtle conservation project on Gandoca beach, situated right next to the Panama border on the Caribbean coast.
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Take Me Out... Or Shall I Take You?
Despite myself, I am irrepressibly thrilled at the return of ITV live meat-market, Take Me Out to our Saturday TV viewing schedule.
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Never Mind About Buzzcocks
It is a sad symptom of the culture and time we live in that sooner or later, we will all have to come to terms with our favourite TV show being cancelled. (Unless your favourite show is X Factor).
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