Sitting in the hot tub taking in the charming lakeside surroundings of our quiet Cotswold retreat my friends, sister and I were feeling decidedly smug. Getting to our pretty Watermark lakeside turret lodge in the heart of the Cotswold Water Park had taken a mere two hours drive from London with not a sign of an ash cloud or BA strikes to contend with. Bliss. For five glorious days the six of us got to relax, drink and host our own ridiculous Come Dine With Me dinner parties (complete with appalling impressions of the voiceover...

So almost four months ago I found my terrified and bewildered self back on to the singles scene. After crying every blinking day for at least a month (curse you uncontrollable tear ducts), trying to take my own book advice and self-prescribing Sex And The City DVD therapy every night to counter the night terrors I began to pick myself up and dust myself down. Then an email popped into my inbox inviting me to a Benefit ‘Flirt Alert’ evening where myself and a friend could brush up on both our make-up and flirting skills in...

On Sunday ten members of the Twitterati team (many dressed as cheerleaders -whoop) will take part in the Cancer Research UK Race For Life on Hampstead Heath. Some of us are fighting fit and healthy, others are on the slightly slobbier side, but we all have one thing in common - we want to raise money for a fantastic cause… Last month I had the privilege of joining my gorgeous friend Rebekah Gibbs as she ran the Race For Life at the 02 in North Greenwich. Rebekah, an actress best known for her role as Nina the paramedic on...

So Sex And The City 2 premiered this week to much hype, SJP hysteria and mixed reviews. I’ve already booked in to see it twice next week and I’m pretty sure I’ll love every minute regardless of the plot. The fact is I will always have a massive soft spot for SATC… A friend from Holland, who has never seen Sex And The City, recently asked me what a ‘SATC girl’ was. He’d googled it and come up with this rather derogatory explanation from Urban Dictionary. To his amusement this made me very indignant. “It’s...

When guest blogger SARAH NORRIL was diagnosed with breast cancer she expected people to find the subject awkward –what she wasn’t ready for was the foot-in-mouth comments… I pride myself on being quite a quirky, funny girl who has, like many of us, had to put up with my fair share of rubbish. Rubbish from men, bosses, life in general. It throws stuff at me and I just bat it off, because that, my friends, is how I roll and how I have always dealt with things. I am also quite nice to people. I would never KNOWINGLY upset...

Lisa Lynch is a formidable lady. At 28 her life was shaping up nicely. She was married to the lovely P, had a dream job as a magazine editor and big ambitions before her 30th. Then ‘The Bullshit’ arrived - breast cancer - and suddenly she faced a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Lisa duly started to pen down her darkest thoughts, comedy observations and general life musings in her blog Alright Tit. As she endured her treatment, her readership grew, Stephen Fry bigged her up on Twitter and she was snapped...

Last month I was dispatched to Sheffield to undertake one of the most terrifying jobs I have done to date. The task at hand was to sit on a celebrity judging panel at Sheffield Arena for the Dancing On Ice tour and be as mean to the skaters as Jason Gardiner is on the TV show. In front of THOUSANDS of people *gulp* Well I did it and along the way I got heckled, I got booed and Andi Peters told me I had ‘no passion for life’ OUCH. You can read how I got on here… At the opening night of the Dancing On Ice Tour...

Last week I was invited to an event for BeautifulPeople.com an exclusive social networking/dating site that in a Zoolander styleee only accepts the really, really, ridiculously good-looking as members. This intrigued me for a number of reasons but not least as the website has been all over the papers of late. In a stroke of PR genius it faced controversy earlier this year after it cruelly axed 5,000 members because their waistlines had expanded over the festive period. “Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat...

When I was eight-years-old a Doctor Who episode scared me so much that I suffered nightmares and promised my grandfather I’d never watch it again. Now here I am 23 years later bravely staring death in the face as I eyeball the most terrifying Doctor Who baddie of them all – a dastardly dalek. I’ve joined hordes of geeks who’ve turned out in their droves to bid for a collection of rare Doctor Who props and costumes on sale at Bonhams auction house in Knightsbridge, London. Before the bids get going the showroom is packed...

I’m already hooked on Twitter and Facebook so when I heard about a new online gimmick called ‘chat roulette’ I decided to give it a whirl. ‘Chat roulette’ launched in November and is already attracting 22,000 users at any one time. Even the Jonas Brothers were rumoured to be on it this week. The premise is very simple: you enable your webcam, click ‘play’ and then find yourself face-to-face with a random stranger from anywhere else in the world. You can either chat away or, if you don’t like what you see, quickly...