• Your guide to conquering the winter woes

    Summer Revely If you’re feeling blue during this post-Christmas come-down, you’re not alone. Featuring ‘Blue Monday’ – a day widely recognised as the most depressing of the year – January is a long slog for many. Without the near-approaching festive holidays to spur you through those dreary walks to...
  • No place like home: how to settle in at university

    Josephine Mandin There’s no question that Nottingham has quite the reputation. However, whilst at first it may seem like an invigorating hub for parties, university life here can also be relaxed and feel more homely than may seem imaginable. Josephine Mandin enlightens us on their tips for feeling warm and...
  • Expert Tips and Tricks for Styling Your Winter Wardrobe

    Winter does not mean Boring. The seasons of sunlight and sweat are over. We are entering full force into the season full of frosty air, snow slush and most importantly, Winter Fashion. But has the depressive months of daylight savings and lack of vitamin D forced us to sacrifice...
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    In Winter, I collapse

    Mary Irene Carolan  ‘I appreciate your concern. None of this is your fault. It’s me. It’s me and my head. In Winter, I collapse’ Virginia Woolf, Letter to Violet Dickinson (January 1909). I would draw the sun in the corner of the page; bright, yellow, the crayon outside of...
  • November Book of the Month – All the Broken Places

    Anna Boyne Sixteen years after the publication of his heart-wrenching novel ‘The Boy in StripedPyjamas’, John Boyne returns to ‘Out-With’ with a new, equally compelling perspective.  Told this time from the perspective of Gretel, Bruno’s older sister, John Boyne guidesreaders through her lifetime of struggling to reconcile with the...
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    The Importance of Sunscreen in the Winter

    Charlotte Bowers   SPF and Skincare – many of us have daily skincare routines either with lots of products or very few. But scientists argue that you should be wearing sunscreen every day as part of your skincare routine to protect against things such as photoaging and hyperpigmentation. Is...
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    Winter Comfort Foods

    As the winter days draw in, why does comfort food matter, where does it come from and what foods does Impact recommend? Charlotte Bowers investigates....