I remember The Sun newspaper littering the worn coffee tables of my school common room. The boys in the year above comparing Page 3 models to various girls they'd seen naked. Katie from Dorset, 34DD, out on display like strawberry millions in the local sweet shop window. She was an...

"Why do they call it 'Christmas time', when 'time' is the one thing you don't have at Christmas?" sighs the Curry's voice-over man on the radio. Before we have a chance to ponder whether this is true, he's chipper as a grotto elf and explaining how the electrical shop plans...

'Go away I'm MEDITATING!' wasn't something I expected to snarl at the knock on my bedroom door while in the throes of meditative bliss, but as it turns out, finding inner peace through this traditional Buddhist practice isn't as easy as it looks. For something that from the outside looks...

'Oh for heavens sake...' muttered my science teacher, brandishing a fistful of marked mock exam papers at his nervous class. 'Stop CRAPPING all over the QUESTIONS!' Thus followed an entire lesson on exam technique to help trim back our rambling, excrement-like responses to 'what the exam board wants to see',...

"Hey everybody, this is The Water Whispers and I've decided to make a towel folding video today, and maybe if I have enough time I'll do some paper cutting...", murmurs a gentle, lilting female voice. You wouldn't think you're listening to the beginning of a hit Youtube video,...

I've never been bothered about watching sport on the TV. When the English football team was being squeezed out of Euro 2012 by Italy earlier this summer, I could be found skipping gleefully down the middle of a traffic-free road, to make the most of a supermarket quieter than the...

Holly Willoughby recently posted a makeup free photo of herself on Twitter. She joins the growing brigade of female celebrities publicly baring their natural faces to prove that it's not always necessary to pile on the slap as soon as the first ray of sunlight penetrates their retinas in the...