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Safe Valentine’s Day Celebrations

If you’re spending it together    1. Romantic takeaway Cooking together isn’t as fun when you do it often, so why not treat yourself to a nice ‘dinner out in’. If you often have takeaways, try to make this one special – light some candles (or fake candles, let’s not forget fire safety), play some …

5 Things You Must Do This Summer Lest It Be Wasted

Learn to Surf The sea seems pretty when there’s land beneath your feet but if you’ve ever come into contact with the vast thing, you’ll be aware that its appearance is a lie, its shining surface is lovely icing on a bad sponge. The sea is cold, upsets the tongue and tum when sipped, and …

University: Expectations vs Reality

Freshers week is nearly upon us and a whole bunch of new students are going to be joining us! Welcome to the herd! Coming to university is probably one of the most exciting, scary, difficult and fun experiences ever. And of course with any big event, there are all sorts of expectations! And if you …

Top tips: the Long Distance Relationship

Valentine’s Day may have left you a little loved-up, or alternatively, love-lonely (if you subscribe to such capitalist commercialism, that is.)  In the will-they-won’t-they stage with someone, but their location puts you off? Or already with your S.O. but struggling with not seeing them? My mum advised against committing to a long distance relationship (“You …