Musical Beauty

 Feel like the world needs more of this song at the minute:

Wellbeing and fighting genuine obesity is an important thing, but it's worth remembering that beauty comes in so many forms.

Too thin by half

Numbers admitted to anorexia clinics has gone up in Britain in the last 10 year's as reported by The Guardian.

The articles cites celebrity images in magazines as being part of the culprit.

I do not know enough to assume the exact triggers for eating disorders, but idealised standards for women are unlikely to help, based purely on common sense.

All women have the capacity to be beautiful and it would be great if the media could move closer to reflecting this fact.

Cosmopolitan in the UK did some great images recently shooting pregnant women of varying races and body types and they all looked great.

Could we present more of this?

Doves advertising in the UK has been interesting, it has made the bold move of focusing on women's beauty rather than their flaws to sell things; the better course I believe.

Hello beautiful

Yes, a guy saying 'hello beautiful' in the pouring rain is a thumbs up.

I was waiting innocently and soggily at the bus stop, I was not expecting compliments.

This is not being hailed as a child or scolded for not giving some egotistical idiot the attention he feels he deserves.

This is someone nodding through ugly British weather and saying: "You, you look good even under the coat with which I am sheltering my head."

Thanks, you don't look bad either.

The beauty of ugliness

This is quite lovely.

 http://youtu.be/_Pubn8Ra_Ls

Frighteningly hypnotic, but lovely.