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How alcohol-dependant are you?
Taking a 6 week break from boozing could show you that you're not as dependent on alcohol as you...
Ten Years Younger
“People are telling me I look ten years younger” How would you like people to say that about you,...
Break Up Planning
Sadly a married couple we are close to suddenly and unexpectedly split up last year. It’s got me thinking again about a conversation that I think all couples should have when times are good: “if we were to split up, how would we want to do it?” My husband and I talk...
Get out there
I’m not what you’d call a natural sportsperson. When I was a teenager, I was much happier in the library than in the gym, and only attended PE lessons at High School for the first year, after which I realised that if you didn’t turn up to the first class of term to...
Write it out
The first lockdown was really hard on us all. One of the key things that helped get me through it was journaling. It can sound a little “teenager” and many people don’t know where to start with it, so I thought I’d share how I was doing it in lockdown. Writing at a...
My dream, hangover-free, morning
My dream morning: 😴 Wake up at 6.30am, whilst my family is sleeping. 🌅 Head out for a walk whilst the world is slowly waking up. 🍌 Get home at 7.30am, as my family is getting up, and have a fruit-based breakfast together. 🚌 Send...
I just want to read my book!
Do you just wish you could have a couple hours to yourself? It’s not much to ask, but those couple of hours can be seemingly impossible to find. And when you do find them? You spend them doing stuff you HAVE to do: getting ahead on meal prep, going food shopping,...
Eat more plants
Growing up, I was one of those hippy kids who already knew what hummus even though it was still the 80s. I’d go to a birthday party at McDonald’s and order a cheeseburger, not understanding that there would be a piece of meat under my cheese. When offered lasagne for...
Happy Birthday to Me!
It’s almost my birthday. 37. Late 30s. Almost 40. Those statements should sound scarier than they do. I feel very lucky to have found so much joy in my life and to feel so settled before I’m 40. I’ve done all the usual milestones: marriage, mortgage, motherhood,...
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all of my followers! I hope that you have the most wonderful Christmas ever, and I hope that it is boringly normal after two Christmases lost to the pandemic! I absolutely adore Christmas, family and friends all coming together in their sparkliest...
Christmas Grief
In 2020, like so many people, I suffered a bereavement during the coronavirus pandemic. We had to face difficult decisions as a family around shielding and visiting, trying to get the balance right between seeing and supporting my mum in her final weeks, seeing and...
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