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Lady-Like Childhoods spent of girls being told to be more lady-like. The need to wear petty coats decades after there use has dwindled. Showing your knickers during a fast-paced cartwheel, unthinkable. Denied the pleasures of tree climbing, void of the fun from play fighting in the name of being lady-like. Adulthood, Restrictiveness of ladylike rears…

..to explain…. Ahead, we have a field, common ground, or well done up waste ground for those less gracious in terminology. Grass recently cut, some stripe like forms, but simply devised from the day-to-day routine of the Council cutter, not pitch perfect and suburban. Ahead, we have a field, common ground, or well done up…

The top 5 reasons why women’s breasts make you wince, avert the eyes and wish you weren’t present. 5 They are just a bit too big and the top is just a bit too small. When you can see more of them than its comfortable looking towards.                …

I must be Miss Liverpool! We are seated, lined up, eventually at the final of Miss Liverpool. The seats of the room arched around, judges desks empty for now. They have demobbed to a side room, making the final, ultimate, life-changing decision. I must be Miss Liverpool! It’s taken me four years to get here,…

Last Saturday saw the fun of Rags Boutique at Southport Festival. For the magic-themed festival we created an array of high standing wizard hats, a collection of mushroom masks. Black cats masqueraded and a troop of unicorns topped everything off. Alison Little started Rags Boutique workshops over a decade ago as part of Bold Street…

Process milk from Damien Hirst calf ensuring it is free from formaldehyde. Add some melon from Sarah Lucas’ Au Naturel, tell her to stop ‘Eating a Banana’ and combine to the fluid. Juice things up with some KY Jelly from Tracey Emin’ bed. Technique: turn everything inside out the way Rachel Whiteread did with ‘House’.…

I stand Tall The remains of Mee demolition The crew: Mee, the head man, Mo, Dow and Re-bow Got started last week The rest of the building knocked down: Demolished Kaput No more Outsides removed Core kept in place Outers ripped Splattered to the ground I stand as I have stood for fifty years A…

Earlier this week the Police and their treatment of stalking cases hit the national news. This extract is from the fictional novel Casual Nexus in which we see the accumulation the pressures of the main character Sal being constantly stalked.   The art school was open to the public for the two weeks of the…

Easter, Bunnies and Dressing Up. Let’s get things straight! How did the Easter Bunny come about? The Easter Bunny actually came from Folklore, the Pagan Festival of Vernal Equinox fell around springtime. This was replicated with the Jewish Passover then again through Christianity as the Sunday when Jesus rose from the dead after the Crucifixion.…