Category: Advice
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Listening to the Maintenance Phase
Podcasts are my constant companion on my daily commute. I am still listening to My Favourite Murder, I Weigh and Grow, Cook, Eat, Arrange and some other random podcasts but the Maintenance Phase. It’s two intelligent people talking about unhealthy practices that celebrities or so called professionals prompt as healthy diet. It’s funny and factual…
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Planning our next holiday
Before Covid I planned to take my husband to New York for his birthday. Deposit paid, days planned, then the plague hit the world and he ended up having a zoom birthday like millions of others. Now lots of the restrictions are lifted, America is on the cards again but we are not going to…
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Moment in time: shadow and light
Taking a deep breath. Appreciating the beauty in the shadows and light. Standing underneath my favourite tree with it’s beautiful plum and green leaves. Gratitude for my surroundings on my walk with Frank. Happy Wednesday.
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Healthy habits: Ten minute meditation in the garden
I have a small garden, mostly in containers with some large shrubs and trees, my faux lawn ( inherited ) means that I can maintain it fairly easily but it still takes effort. Gardener extraordinaire Butter Wakefield suggests a healthy garden is maintained in ten minutes a day rather than hours at the weekend. This…
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Is a hose pipe ban on the way?
Next week is August and the temperatures are set to soar again. It may shock you to hear that in England, known for lush green lawns and a lot of rain. We can’t cope when it comes to the weather! We are such a mild country that any extremes completely throw us off! Snow =…
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Appreciation for my house
I am fully aware I spend far too much time of social media. I do. So I am trying to find a bit of peace among the daily noise. Now that it’s cooler I can resume walking Frank. I dread it, every day, and then I enjoy it so much! Why am I so ridiculous?…
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Moment in time: finding peace on a walk
I can’t quite get over this sycamore tree. The rich green contrasted with the plummy red. It’s incredible. I have a branch drying in my dining room and today I took three leaves and pressed them. I would never have a sycamore in my garden as they shed like crazy, grow to impressive heights and…
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Has Retail killed my confidence? Job searching at 40
I haven’t put a personal blog up in a while but I have been really focused on my Job searching and getting nowhere. It’s frustrating and its getting to the point that I may have to get another shop job so I can earn money. From the get go i need to let you know…
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Buying our kitchen floor second hand
Time to share us buying more second hand bits for the kitchen. The floor in the kitchen is currently quarry tiles. we love that warm terracotta colour that is very European and is an original feature of our house that wasn’t bomb damaged during the Second World War. We have been keeping an eye out…
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Tomato Plant update
Fascinating I know! But I have been through a lot with my tomato plants. I was so happy last year with my twenty plants that grew a whole 5 tomatoes! Five. Twenty plants I cared for and looked after. I even used a paintbrush to help the pollination. So this year I started with a…
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