GIRL ON A SOAPBOX

As another year is about to draw to a close I find I’m reflective on the year that was. For my loved ones it was a year of sickness, str...

I hate it when people ask me what my favourite book is. To me, that is like asking someone who their favourite child is. Now, some peopl...

When was the last time you were alone? I mean really alone. Not in a lonely sense, but the way where the only thing you have to keep you com...

Firstly, Happy New Year! I have a confession to make. I hate New Years Eve. I've never seen the appeal of staying up till midnight to ...

Welcome to a new look and new Girl on a Soapbox. To those that are hoping for more issues and debates, I'm sorry, but I lost the love ...

New Years Eve holds so much hope and good intentions. Next year I’ll exercise more. Give up smoking. Learn a new language. Write more. T...

"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." -Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

WARNING: The following is a first world problem. I had such high hopes for 2011 and then illness got in the way. I was hoping 2012 was goi...

A ram jumped to freedom over a 1.5m fence at a farm in Northhamptonshire, England, broke into a adjoining paddock and mated with almost a th...

I had a brush with cervical cancer.  A regular pap test  a few years ago came back with an abnormal reading and I had to go back to my docto...

"People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own." -Angelina Jolie

This ad is the print campaign for Marc Jacobs perfume Oh Lola!, starring 17-year-old actress Dakota Fanning and it has just been banned in t...

The following is a true story and could fall under the headline of Odd Spot, but I thought the efforts of the Derbyshire Police in England d...

"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that." -Lauren Bacall