Sport and the Truth About Shopping

Picture the scene: it’s Saturday afternoon and you’ve hit the local high street with your boyfriend in search of some new clothes. As you gaze at the shoes, scarves and other paraphernalia you notice a man walking past in a football shirt and instinctively shudder as the haze of man-made fibres catch the light and damned near blind you. Thankfully, it’s not your bloke. No. He’s far too sophisticated and man-about-town to ever don such garb. Phew!  Read more... (758 words, 2 images, estimated 3:02 mins reading time)

At this time of the year we often take stock of what we have, and don’t have in our lives and what we would like to change. Most of us seek to be happy as the primary goal in life. Sometime we feel if we can get our ultimate job, meet the man of our dreams, have that longed for family or win the lottery, we will be happy. But happiness is not necessarily a natural state.  Read more... (703 words, 3 images, estimated 2:49 mins reading time)

Christmas and New Year are a time for entertaining and mingling with a plethora of parties and dinners to go to and hold. In fact, for social butterfly Belles, throwing a fabulous dinner party in January is just the way to get through the cold, depressing month. But in a digital age that has sometimes forgotten good etiquette, what do we need to do to make sure our guests feel at ease, or indeed how do we respect our hosts if we are the guest?  Read more... (412 words, 3 images, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

It’s not just what you say; it’s how you say it. When body language speaks volumes

When we start dating someone, other than having a wonderful time, our minds are continuously forming initial impressions, and interpreting words and signals while we get to know each other. The actual words we use together with how we say them, tone, volume etc., contribute up to just 45% of our message and the rest is conveyed through body language, such as posture, gestures and mannerisms. We naturally interpret body language to gauge what the person is really feeling inside – critical when we fancy someone!  Read more... (951 words, 2 images, estimated 3:48 mins reading time)

Heating on. Heating off. Reaching for your winter coat one minute and digging out your summer frocks the next. Whilst it’s been great to enjoy some freakish October temperatures, unfortunately it seems such extreme conditions are the perfect breeding ground for the evil that is the COLD!  Read more... (672 words, 2 images, estimated 2:41 mins reading time)

When Angela and Dave Dawes won £101 million on the EuroMillions lottery last weekend many of us dreamed of what we would do with that amount of cash. While we may think we would have no trouble finding things to spend that money on, who wants to waste time researching the top travel destinations and doing all the negotiations and organisation? Celebrities and multimillionaires know that it is important to have someone in their entourage  who can make their every wish come true, no matter how large or small!  Read more... (690 words, 3 images, estimated 2:46 mins reading time)

• It takes less than two minutes to form a first impression
• One in 20 Brits researches others online before meeting them

They say first impressions are the most important. That has never been truer, as new research from Experian CreditExpert – the UK’s most trusted credit monitoring service – reveals just how quickly we form opinions.  Read more... (388 words, 2 images, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

So the suitcase is back in the loft and the tan-prolonging aftersun you’ve been applying daily is down to its final squeeze. Brown crunchy things that look suspiciously like autumn leaves keep appearing in your garden and nights are drawing in.  Friends and colleagues have now stopped telling you how ‘well’ you look.  It’s all a bit grim.  Read more... (405 words, 2 images, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

There are so many fabulous single women in London – sassy, fun, successful and beautiful and while some are happy to be footloose and fancy free, many others would love to find their own Mr Big and settle down.  Read more... (1213 words, 5 images, estimated 4:51 mins reading time)

A  poll of 2,000 UK males by social networking site Badoo looked at the features men find most attractive in the opposite sex with surprising results – blondes were beaten by brunettes.

In fact a third (33.1%) of all those polled said they find brown hair more attractive than blonde (29.5%), black (28.6%) and red (8.8%), contradicting the adage that gentlemen prefer blondes.  Read more... (388 words, 3 images, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)