Category: Advice
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Where’s your head at?

What a crazy week! I am a little overwhelmed by it all, the new just keeps getting worse. More people are getting sick and the deaths keep adding up. This is all getting very scary. We have arrived back from Japan into chaos. I am angry at how slow our government has taken to act…
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Onsens let’s get naked and talk body confidence

Firstly if you think I have body confidence you are mistaken. My pale chubby body is not a sight for sore eyes, even mine. I have gained a little weight since the wedding and I am not happy about it. I do appreciate my body, don’t get me wrong, it is fairly healthy and fairly…
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Hotels we stayed in Japan

If your planning a trip to Japan then you may be interested in hotels we stayed it. I won’t put the prices up as it will change when you get there. Before we left I popped all our hotels in my Google maps so that I could find them quickly on my phone. They were…
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Honeymoon with coronavirus! Japan here we come

So firstly, are we worried? Yes a little Are we going? Yes unless the government tells us not to! It’s a flu, a bad flu that mainly effects the old and vulnerable. So we are not in the danger bracket yet. We still may get sick but likely that we will be fine. It’s flu,…
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January blues 1 me 0

Last month was hard So hard I have never felt so low for so long, January blues 1, me 0. I still functioned, still went to work, but my energetic levels were so low. I felt in the edge of tears all the time. I just want to be held and left alone at the…
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Over packing is a waste, the key to successful packing

Overpacking is definitely a pet peeve of mine. I hate it, it’s wasteful and unnecessary and generally it’s down to not organising my list properly. This holiday to Les Deuce Alps I only over packed slightly but it still rankles me. I could have just packed one jumper instead of 3, I could have just…
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Self reflection

This winter I have been busy. So busy I have missed out on a lot. It will be worth it if I get my bonus this year but it has still taken me away from the things I love and the people I miss. When you work in retail Christmas is your busiest time there…
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Things I have learned about myself

I was never going to write this post. I didn’t really believe in looking back that far but then I got a notification. Facebook shared a post from over ten years ago. It was a brief message to the world sharing how much pain I was in. Dana: It flashed up and I allowed my…
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Instagram filters need to go

I am sorry but I have said it. I am not a fan. It was all supposed to be for fun but now Instagram is filled, absolutely choc a block with pictures of people with eyelash filters and animal filters. They look like Disney characters. It’s an illusion that people are buying into and quite…
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Life update organising and focus: taking a deep breath

It’s Christmas in two months So work is full on as you can imagine. It’s our busiest time of year and we are making plans plans plans! So I thought I would update you on what we have planned. Hen do catch up with my girls Halloween feast for two Getting the house sorted Digging…
