Hazel Butterfield
Bio
I'm a Presenter @RiversideRadio @WomensRadioStn & Blogger - talking about food, music, fitness & randomness with a special love for #Books
Stories (11/0)
Always hungry for more books…
Holiday Read - Taylor Cole (11th May 2023) What I loved about this book is it’s heartwarming propensity to help us see that we can choose our family. We can curate what works for us and that best friends and family can show up for us in many different ways and help us to see our worth. Anything less and we should and can choose our boundaries, people who don’t respect that, likely have an ulterior motive or not our best interests at heart. When surfer Candice moves from Hawaii to Cornwall she is not just escaping her cheating and controlling husband, she’s in search of her ‘dad’, her roots, what to do with her life, but most importantly I’d say, find herself.
By Hazel Butterfieldabout a year ago in Humans
Let’s address toxic masculinity
My son came to me with a new AI system that evidently you can ask anything and it will generate a response specific to your request. Although it feels incredibly lazy, I enjoyed asking it random questions to see what it had to say. Here is what AI has to say on the subject of ‘Toxic masculinity in the Western World’. I must say, I am quite impressed!
By Hazel Butterfieldabout a year ago in Humans
Are you sure you’re a modern man?
I was recently watching an episode of The Bold Type (Season 3) on Netflix, a deceptively at first but very perceptive programme that really strives to challenge opinions on subjectivity and acceptable behaviour in what is inarguably a very confusing and progressive time.
By Hazel Butterfield3 years ago in Humans
What is happening with men at the moment?
It’s like they are trying to find a way to exert their authority over women, maybe through not knowing an ever changing role, whether subconsciously or not. Testing the boundaries of human decency and acceptability in a world where “we can’t seem to do or say anything anymore”.
By Hazel Butterfield4 years ago in Humans
What's Hurt Got to Do with It?
Sometimes I panic about now being happy again. Worried that I could slip back into the unknown, a place I was in for far too long. A place I didn’t even know I was in for the first few years, until I crashed and burned, monumentally.
By Hazel Butterfield5 years ago in Motivation
2019 Is Here. What Now?!
2018 was interesting in so many ways for many of us. Fraught with worry over Brexit, moral panic over our own safety/sanity, FOMO and finances. Even deciding whether to go out and see the friends whose company you crave and yet needing to cuddle up on the sofa and have "downtime." Having that glass of wine to wind-down or gaining a booze-free day, fitting in a workout, answering your WhatsApp’s, counting your five a day, trawling through your emails (and realising GDPR was a bucket of nonsense), wracking your brain for a doable New Years resolution that doesn’t make you feel like a failure. Juggling everything.
By Hazel Butterfield5 years ago in Motivation
I Heart NYC
In the summer, without a doubt, the best way to get around is by bike. I cannot express enough how great it is, you move quicker than most cars/taxis, which also means if you are a bit of a nervous road rider and you need to move away from the cycle routes, you don't have to worry about cars passing you too closely. They are easy to rent (just like the UK's Boris bikes) and for $12 you have unlimited usage for 24 hours. You can see so much more, cover so much ground and it is unbelievably safe. Even when you're not on one of their amazing cycle paths and navigating the roads with the traffic. It's all good. There is an incredible cycle and walkway path on the west side along the Hudson River that quite frankly is a revelation. Not like a New York I've ever witnessed before. Rollerbladers, runners, walkers and cyclists in a green and smooth environment. It's designed in a way so very few opportunities arise for you to need to stop, it takes you quite nicely down to Battery Park and the Staten Island Ferry.
By Hazel Butterfield7 years ago in Wander
E-Biking in Val Gardena
Our trip started out at our hotel, Hotel Gran Baita, with their signature cocktail, the 'Hugo', as we got to know the rest of our team for our e-biking tour e-powered by Bosc, where we also got to find out a bit more about this deliciously beautiful part of the Dolomites.
By Hazel Butterfield7 years ago in Wander
