There are times in this journey when I worry that all I am doing is “just coping”. I feel as if just coping is not good enough and I should be doing better. Often, I am angry about the lack of support available but sometimes I am angry at myself....
I don’t know about you but we are the house of games consoles. You name it, we have it. The staff in our local Game shop know us by name, know what we like and ask if we’ve been ill or on holiday if we don’t pop in once a week....
Last month, we bought a new bike for me. I was never really an enthusiastic cyclist as a child, I owned a Tomahawk (my brother got the Chopper) but I was more a roller skate and make perfume from petals type girl. However, I am listening to a Fitpod from Thinking Slimmer at the...
You will fail Not all the time but on many occasions, you will fail. I know there have been numerous times when I have entered the familiar dark arena of failure and been overcome with guilt, disgust, frustration, shame, sadness, guilt, despair, envy, jealousy, doubt and a multitude of other negative emotions. There...
As anyone who knows me will tell you, especially my husband, I have a real passion for stationery. Put me in Staples or Paperchase for an hour and I am in my happy space. I have a huge array of notebooks and to be honest, most of them I bought...
As you will know, I am attempting to become happy by being generous. One of the first ideas I suggested towards achieving this was to let people pull out of junctions ahead of you and allowing them to pull into your lane. As I wrote the post I was convinced...
On Monday, I was fortunate enough to spend an Afternoon of Happiness in London. This was an event organised by Action for Happiness and included a 1.5 hour chat with the Dalai Lama. Now if that wasn’t inspirational enough, there were a number of other guest speakers, all of whom wanted us to be...
In one year of many attempts, I’ve lost the grand total of 0.5lb. During that year I’ve gained 1 stone, lost 1.5 stone, gained 1 stone, lost 0.5 stone … And so on. Over the last few months I’ve been looking into what works best for me. Being in Fitbit...
I may be a bit late to the party but trying to play catch up. Here are days 1 to 6 of Mama, you talk‘s August List Challenge, pop over and get involved, it’s been quite fun writing these lists. A big thanks to Jo over at Ojo’s World...
