Winter

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

Amy Child January can be a time filled with emptiness after the festive cheer dissipates, but there’s nothing like a good film to get your spirits back up. In our January theme of ‘cosiness’, Amy recommends 5 must-watch films to snuggle down with that are sure to soothe your...

Music can make us feel many emotions - happiness, sadness, anger. But what about the songs that make us feel emotions we can’t exactly put into words? The songs that make you want to curl up in bed, put in your headphones, and escape the world. Songs that are...