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; the type that show conventionally-attractive cutie pies falling in straight love, surrounded by snow, and usually with some wannabe high-powered business woman, or manic pixie media type, re-evaluating her life’s choices. Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer is the key love interest here, which marks one of many big former Battlestar Galactica cast member appearances. If the idea of seeing Michael Hogan (Battlestar Galactica’s Saul Tigh) waltzing around a small town in grandad jumpers is up your street, The Christmas Secret has you covered. When a high-flying TV producer learns she has to produce a Christmas Special with the host’s son, she’s rightly peeved, but the Christmas season (and incredibly festive road trip) soon brings everyone together.

Your resident whiskey/whisky expert is back with something new and rather exciting; namely, a weekly video series where I dip into the spirit world ’s boozy waters for you and share my favourite findings. This week, for Whisky Wednesday‘s inaugural episode, I’m introducing you to Waterford, the Irish distillery en vogue, and giving away a bottle of its brilliant Ballymorgan 1.1 malt whiskey (e for the Irish, of course). You can check out all the terms and conditions in the description box of the video above (just double click the title to open it in a new window), so please enjoy and best of luck — ’til next week!

Still, we’re all trying our best, and with lockdown two on the horizon, I think this might be a better time than ever to share a little lived-and-learned survival guide for the next few weeks (dare I say months?) of uncertainty. all aware of the negative effects of social media, it’s easy to lose hours on apps when there’s little else to distract us. A good app blocker, many of which are available for free on iOS and Android, will limit the time you can spend on apps like Instagram and Facebook (and save your sanity in the process). Be it a travel blog, fashion blog, food blog, beauty blog, music blog, or something entirely different...

As the so-called ‘trans row’ gained steam, Rowling decided to explain transphobic comments with a transphobic blog. Equality which, in the most basic of definitions, would ensure that a specific aspect of a person’s identity (like gender, sexuality, or skin colour) would have no effect on their treatment or opportunities. has zero impact on me (a cisgender bisexual woman), Rowling (who continues to restrict the construct of womanhood to “people with vaginas”), or anyone else on the outskirts of trans-ness, but it has an enormous impact on those women. As marginalized groups go, trans people have been dealt an impossible hand; they face daily discrimination and harassment, societal demands that they “pass” for their gender, ridicule around their “transition” (or lack thereof), and HIGH-PROFILE REMINDERS