It’s wild to think that an experience that affects half the world’s population – having periods – still remains taboo in many countries. Many of us will remember dying with embarrassment in the toilet stalls at school, panicking that someone would hear us rustling a tampon packet, and even now, plenty of women feel that telling someone they’re feeling rubbish because they’re on their period is unthinkable.
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Oh dear. I don’t know why I did this, rashly, the evening of 29 February. Leap Day. I took a leap. Maybe because I have a completion date on the vicarage looming and I need help, someone to share it with, and who is willing to change light bulbs*, heave boxes and dog-sit. Cook.