'Phenomena' Category
Six reasons to enjoy getting older
The Nurse is getting on a bit. She’s long in the tooth. Her intimate bits are heading south fast and she automatically lets out a wheezy old lady groan whenever she sits down. But is she finding the ageing process terrible? Not particularly. There are loads of advantages to getting older. Here are The Nurse’s top six reasons for relaxing and [...]
Hot New Fashion Tip: False Teeth?
If false teeth were hot stuff The Nurse would have her gnashers whipped out without a second thought. As the UK’s population ages, will false teeth ever become stylish? The Nurse, brought up in the ’60s and ’70s, has crap teeth. Her 1970s childhood dentist was spectacularly bad as well as really scary. So when she left [...]
Cosmetics, anti-ageing and ‘beauty’ products ‘hit and miss’ science
The Nurse wonders how many women realise that the claims made by skincare manufacturers are utter bollocks. Cosmetics companies have always relied on subjective assessments of the improvements their products make to women’s skin. Why? Because until very recently there’s been no scientifically valid way to test their claims. So skincare advertising is all pretty words with no substance. Or - as The Nurse’s [...]
Women… stop picking on men!
Just because women were treated like idiots for centuries doesn’t give us the right to take revenge on men. The Nurse remembers when very few women had decent jobs, if they worked at all. The telly showed us climbing all over hunky blokes wearing ‘Denim’ aftershave, breasts heaving. Or flitting around the living room in a frilly pinny dusting the skirting [...]
