Rowan Pelling
Writer and Columnist at Freelance
Writer, dawdler, escaped eroticist, liberal, lifelong barmaid - still listening. Editor Perspective, former editrice The Erotic Review.
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Rowan Pelling
There is no silence more ominous that the deadly hush of a previously chatty sonographer carrying out a 12-week nuchal scan on a pregnant woman's belly. I remember the sudden knitting of her brow and an ill-disguised attempt to mask serious concern. I could no longer look at the screen, so I turned to my husband Angus, whose face was dark with anxiety. He told me afterwards that he could already see our tiny, frog-like baby's emerging features looked somehow "wrong".
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Rowan Pelling
Many moons ago, when I was editor of Erotic Review, my S&M columnist - a former BBC children's TV presenter - told me her idea of nirvana was to don fetish gear and get soundly thrashed.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Rowan Pelling
There is no winning at motherhood. A year ago I stood in my kitchen, feeling uncomfortable, while a female friend of my son raged at her mother for sending her to a top boarding school when she got divorced, yelling: "You took the easy option and sent me away!" I had to intervene and explain that her mum had worked like a navvy to help her brilliant daughter get a scholarship and avoid family turmoil. But now many children talk darkly of having "boarding school syndrome".
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2 weeks ago |
aol.co.uk | Rowan Pelling
There are some things in this life that seem eternal: the Matterhorn, Niagara Falls, Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid of Giza and naked Liz Hurley. You nod when you see one of them and say to yourself, “Everything changes, but these monumental vistas stay the same.”So, I believe it’s a matter of immense celebration that Hurley has used the occasion of her 60th birthday to gift the world another fine photograph of herself in the buff, posted to Instagram for everyone to enjoy.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Rowan Pelling
I miss the good, old-fashioned nude Madonna whose provocations once proclaimed clothed decorum was for wimps. If the late Dame Vivienne Westwood could be photographed naked by Juergen Teller aged 68, then Madonna can dispense with coy vests. And before you protest that famous men don't feel the need to strip off, let's just contemplate what a Pirelli calendar composed of unclad Rolling Stones would look like - the lizard lounge doesn't even begin to cover it.
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The battle against corporate plunder, pollution and poisoning is ceaseless. Great article by @rachsav on forever chemicals and weasels trying to change classifications.
To recap: There are 10,000+ PFAS. Some are toxic. They're here forever. They pollute water, air, soils, animals and you. Some linked to diseases inc cancers. So when scientists warn against moves to redefine them, we'd better hope people are listening: https://t.co/VPL8Dq6Dx2
I had an awful hospital birth ending with a brutal emergency c-section and resuscitated baby, nearly opted for an elective for boy number two, ended up having a VBAC (vaginal birth at home), with an amazing independent midwife and made a doc about childbirth in 2004 . I wish
I was appalled to find there's no close season for hares in England and Wales (as there is throughout the rest of Europe) they can be killed while breeding and raising leverets. Please sign @chloedaltonuk 's petition and share it. Urge your MP to support her campaign.
This morning I spoke on @bbcradio4’s Today Programme (7:23am) about an open letter I have sent to the Prime Minister, urging the Government to fulfil its promise to end cruel practices harming animal welfare by introducing a close season for hares in England and Wales. The
