by Sarah Hughes For the past 10 years, the UN has kindly been producing the cheerfully named World Happiness Report. Unfortunately for...

by Sarah Hughes It was the one thing all our Grannies nagged us about when we were teenagers wasn’t it? “Stand up straight!” “Stop...

by Sarah Hughes When my marriage broke down last year, people had lots of advice on coping mechanisms. Spend loads of time with friends,...

by Sarah Hughes If someone had told us in November 2019 that in a few months' time, we’d all be locked in our houses, under government...

by Sarah Hughes We all head into the new year with the best of intentions don’t we? After the excesses of the festive season we often...

by Sarah Hughes The search for love: It’s the plot of just about every chick-flick movie ever made. It’s the storyline in the majority of...

By Sarah Hughes If somebody had told me this time last year that my 2022 festive season would be spent as a single woman, I would’ve told...

By Sarah Hughes The horrors of the war in Ukraine, the cost of living crisis, the aftermath of the floods in Pakistan, the mass murder of...

by Sarah Hughes Some days are harder than others when it comes to exercising aren’t they? There are times we can spring out of bed, into...

By Sarah Hughes Self-help books have never been my thing. When everybody else was raving about ‘The Secret’ and how it was definitely...

by Sarah Hughes We’ve all seen the memes on Instagram haven’t we? The ones along the lines of; “Friendship is… trying to arrange a night...

by Sarah Hughes “Boys!” I shout up the stairs; “Time to turn the Xbox off.” I hear muffled, disgruntled complaints from my eldest two...

by Sarah Hughes For years my best friend told me I needed to do yoga. I rolled my eyes and laughed it off every time she insisted it...

by Sarah Hughes It’s an unwritten rule in our house that I’m not to be disturbed when I’m doing a workout. The kids know it, the husband...

by Sarah Hughes There’s nothing like a good old global pandemic to make you really take stock of your life and reassess what you want...

By Sarah Hughes My husband is completely inflexible. And I don’t just mean his point blank refusal to allow me to buy a fuchsia velvet...

It’s Not Acceptable In Real Life, So Why Is Violence Against Women Acceptable On TV? By Sarah Hughes Did you watch The Fall when it first...

by Sarah Hughes Don’t you just hate those smug fitness fanatics who swear that they adore springing out of bed in the morning to start...