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Get cosy and create change

· By Oonagh Simms

Get cosy and create change

It’s International Women’s Day and, wow, is there a lot to be done this year. As a female let business we love that today allows us to celebrate women’s achievements. But it also gives us an opportunity to challenge the things that still keep us from equality.
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the shop around the corner

· By Oonagh Simms

the shop around the corner

I spent many years working in shops. And I love them. I love creative window displays, chatting to customers, satisfying piles of folded jumpers, a finger spaced rail and that specific type of boredom you have when things are really, really quiet.
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black squares and white privilege

· By Oonagh Simms

black squares and white privilege

It would be impossible to ignore the events of this week. The stomach churning reality of watching someone being forcibly and brutally killed. Or the heartbreaking aftermath of street protests, fists raised, knees on the ground. And knowing- in that way that you do- in the pit of your stomach, that watching that murder wasn’t really the worst part of it. 
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I’m here. Keeping going. Sending out marshmallows...

· By Oonagh Simms

I’m here. Keeping going. Sending out marshmallows...

So, if I’m perfectly honest with myself things haven’t felt ‘right’ for a while.  Politically, socially, you know, the big picture things. We all kept on acting up, eating out, buying the unnecessary. But, really, there was a niggle wasn’t there. A little ‘Is this ok?’ niggle. The Brexit divide that dragged on and was used as a quick way to shrug off problems seemed only symptomatic of more fundamental issues- from globalization, racism, economic insecurity, the climate crisis- it was all there. Simmering. 
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