Many years ago someone said to me, I was the kind of girl who wanted the white picket fence. Those words stuck with me because it wasn’t meant as a complement and because it was true. For me, the fence was an aspirational ideal of domestic bliss and safety. In the...
Thanks to the partnership between EDF Energy and 20th Century Fox, I had the opportunity to attend a screening of the film Hidden Figures. EDF Energy currently has a programme for teenage girls called Pretty Curious which ‘aims to inspire teenage girls to imagine a...
Over the Christmas we were spoilt for choice on freeview tele. Amongst other progammes (Doctor Who, The Snowman, We’re going on a bear hunt) there was Disney’s Frozen! Frozen entered our world when Angelo was three. Our family was never been the same. Angelo was...
I’ve been waiting for an animated film like Moana for what feels like ages. Mulan (1998) has always had a special place in my heart for her tenacity to blaze a trail that other Disney ‘princess’ would follow years later. Tangled (2010) presented us with a spirted...
