Bless us and preserve us we will not escape from Twiggy this month either.  I'm sure she is a lovely person but is no-one at AAY listening anymore?

Now we have yet another biography (on the AAY home page, if you will) about the said Twig's doings now she is celebrating her 60th birthday this month.

Is someone in the editing room on steroids (only joking, of course) but I am beginning to feel that Twiggy has either moved in next door to me or married my brother in law!

I couldn't agree more.  I am sick to the back teeth of hearing about the perfect Twiggy, who after all, has not done anything more mind blowing than model clothes and encourage us all to look like skinny boys.

As for cancer, I do think Good Housekeeping over does it, so much in fact that instead of feeling uplifted by the magazine I feel depressed.  Speaking as someone who has first hand experience of the disease, I don't need to be reminded of it month after month after month.

We've raised this before, about the same round of celebs appearing in all the mags ad nauseam, and I do think it's time the editors took notice.

And the breast cancer thing is all very worthy, but if you keep pushing it, people stop reading anyway, and you are putting off your target audience through sheer boredom with the subject.

I do agree about prostate cancer, Chippy: particularly as it's one of those things that men shy away from, and women can help to encourage them to self-examine if they know what to look for.

But if I see another article in a woman's mag about Dressing for Your Shape, or about Lorraine Kelly - or Twiggy - or Lulu, currently back on the music scene, or any of the other usual suspects, I will just sigh heavily and walk out of the shop mumbling; but I will save my money, won't I? BB

It's simply that if every magazine and newspaper covers it endlessly, there comes a point when you just don't bother to read any more. How many articles on breast cancer is it possible to read?

 I hesitate to use the word 'overkill'.

There are other cancers that could actually use a bit more publicity. The breast cancer charities have been spectacularly successful at raising the profile of the disease since the days when my mother had breast cancer, but there is a law of diminishing returns with such things.

That's my only point.

 

 

 

 

Yes, I know. My mother had it.

I read (and it was very moving) the blog now published as a book written by Dina Rabinovich. And when Jenni Murray had it, she had some very interesting things to say. I've read reams about it, including all the stuff by doctors who think we're too interventionist.

If I want to know (and I do) then nothing will stop me finding out. But magazines are for leisure and when they do these articles, nothing new is ever said because they cannot (and should not)court controversy.

I'd be much more engaged if they dealt with some health issues that people tend NOT to know about. How many people, for instance, know about lupus? It kills just as many women as breast cancer. And there was an excellent and informative article in (I think) GH about basal cell skin cancer. Now that was useful.