Archives for April 2020
Lockdown Five weeks and counting…If you made a resolution to get fit, eat healthily, learn Mandarin, blitz the house on the first day of Lockdown – you’re 5 weeks in. It’s the New Year’s resolution equivalent of Mid-February. Your typical gymgoer looks forward to mid-February because that’s when all the ‘New Years Resolution People’ bugger… Read More >
Craft, don’t scribble.
I love bookshops. I love the smell of them (especially the weird old ones between tattooists and shoe repair places), the vibe of them the fact that the people behind the till are usually nice and nerdy and totally up for a chat. Did you know that real, ‘hold in your hand’ books – still… Read More >
Test
I just saw on ‘On This Day’ that when my lovely dad died, I dyed my hair from blonde to really dark. Looking back, that was pretty symbolic, but I felt the urge to DO something, I think. I went on to change a whole lot of other things too – but I’ll tell you… Read More >
Different Blessings, Different Nightmares
I wrote an email the other day that talked about all the extra time that people have now the government imposed restrictions have come into force. It provoked the biggest email mailbag for a while, with an interestingly diverse set of replies. We are always delighted that 1) people take the time out of their… Read More >
It Is All About The Good Stuff
Start a – Good Sh*t List Call it whatever you like… Write down the good stuff However tiny Start today and do it every day It changes the way that you feel It changes the way that you think Your brain has a natural negative bias, that is just how it is. There is a… Read More >
Prioritising Health Has Never Been More Important
‘Old Me’ quite liked a healthy internet debate. ‘New Me’s default is to leave them to it. However one did draw me in a little yesterday, and it got me thinking. The semantics of how/whether/how long we should or shouldn’t go out walking at the moment was the topic. It was a little dreary… Read More >
‘Finding yourself’ requires a stripping away of normality.
During this lockdown/government-imposed holiday/house arrest/apocalypse/home spa retreat, (depending on your persuasion) some new worries have risen to the surface: #TRENDING WORRIES Why is everyone so brilliant while I am terrible at homeschooling? The children are going to be so behind when they get back. What if they get the virus? What if I get the… Read More >
I’m Not Wasting A Second
Funny old times, these. My Dad would have called this all a ‘rum do’. (I’m not sure if that’s a real phrase or a ‘my dad-ism’.) And whether it lasts for 3 weeks, 6 months or more – this will all end one day Hard to believe at the moment – but all things do… Read More >