How to behave at the beach
Depending where you are in the world, you might be hitting the beach this week. Here are some tips on how to not be a dick.
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Check out the A-Z of Music Festivals
You’ll meet new friends at 4.27am… maybe even new partners. You’ll dance like a maniac to a newly-discovered favourite band…
The Quirks of Intimacy – The Two Of Us
Ah, intimacy. The delicate and sinewy thread that we weave between ourselves and others like gentle spiders, shyness giving way to a slower and stranger blossoming, moving in crests as we watch and… Read More
How To Survive A Shit Office Job
Every idealistic youth takes a pre-poverty line vow to avoid the mire of corporate employment. But mounting living-costs keep the gears of the office world churning, and burnt-out idealism turns into “smart-casual” and… Read More
The trouble with fake tanning
Sometimes fake tanning seems like a brilliant idea – a shortcut to looking healthy and glowing – yet in practice its application invariably turns into an absolute bloody nightmare, as Laura Ghafoor explains: I used… Read More
From East To West in Ninety Days
TEN WAYS TO SAVE MONEY TRAVELLING CONTINENTAL EUROPE A female traveller can expect to receive all manner of advice/warnings from people about backpacking Europe alone. Mostly along the lines of ‘be safe, be… Read More
#kalelife: Signs you’re turning into a fuckwit
If knowledge is power, communication inspires interactivity and with affluence comes choice, then living in the privileged, overly commodified and cluttered world that we do is leading us all down the same path… Read More
How to behave on a plane
My husband travels for a living. Tour Manager by trade, he’s an all-knowing, all-seeing, human compass. His partner-in-crime travels as much, as far, and for the same worthy rock cause. They’re the Batman… Read More
How to have a new start in the New Year
Somethingyousaid.com’s Victoria Mietchen suggests some easy ways to approach your life in a fulfilling manner… Some years are great, and some years – not so great. For all our planning, we cannot anticipate everything… Read More
How to survive Winter Wonderland
When Dean Martin sang ‘Walking in a Winter Wonderland’ all those years ago, I’m 100% certain he did not have the annual Hyde Park festivities in mind; hundreds of overpriced Bratwurst stalls, stands… Read More
A foreigner’s survival guide to Thanksgiving
Isidore Tillers might be an Aussie, but that won’t stop her celebrating Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving obviously isn’t an Australian tradition or holiday but, as my double-bassist boyfriend hails from Albuquerque New Mexico, I’ve… Read More
How to pick up a Chick, by Jess Matthews
Hey fellas, Somethingyousaid.com’s Jess Matthews has got some invaluable advice… Some days I truly believe that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. Other days I truly believe that’s a crock… Read More