Cottage-Core - the ultimate antidote to the autumn blues
If you ever need some help feeling more positive about autumn’s imminent arrival (it is #positivethinkingday, after all!), then the...
Summertime Sadness - blame it on that dwindling ‘feminine energy’
I’ve spent a lot of time in the last week, trying to work out why it is, exactly, that the end of summer cuts so much deeper than the...
Mindfulness - How what was once was a natural state of being, became a much-peddled ‘health hack’
This comedy sketch by Des Bishop was a ‘penny drop’ moment. All this time I’ve been thinking of ‘mindfulness’ as a health buzzword (an...
My best bad trait… unpacked!
I came across a quote by Asha Nayaswami the other day which said that ‘a person’s worst quality is often their best quality, taken a...
I’ve stopped watching the news, and here’s why…
I was listening to a podcast the other day, where Tim Minchin was talking to Antoinette Lattouff about whether ‘ignorance is bliss’ can...
Yes…I’m a great pretender!
‘Never pretend to be something you’re not!’  They say.  But what happens when the 'something' you’re pretending to be, is a cool, calm,...
‘It’s just a photo!’ - until it’s not!
Donna Ashworth once wrote a poem about what it means to be the self-designated ‘taker of photos’ in a family. To be the person who is...
The not-so-pretty truth about ‘no compliments!’ parenting culture
There has been a big parenting movement recently (or at least since I’ve been a mum) to always steer compliments AWAY from the realms of...
Attitude vs Academia… discuss!
On this day 23 years ago, I received the news that I had scored a U (yes… an Ungraded) in my English Language A level exam. To say it...
Can’t take the heat…?
One of the things I love most about cooking in summer, is that it tends to make meal-prep feel (and look) a lot less like ‘slaving over a...
