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Dealing with the mundane
There are times when keeping a home just feels plain old monotonous – and there is no getting round it. Day after day, week after week, it can be all too easy to feel like you are going in circles, chasing your tail, heading back to square one and starting it all over again. And…
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Poetry: Can it be self-published? Advice required!
To the untrained eye, I will have looked fairly unproductive, at times, recently. I will have looked like I was just mucking about on my laptop, not doing very much. What I have been doing is working on my poetry book. I’m slowly working on typing up my poetry, sorting it into categories and trying…
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Goodbyes are so difficult
I’ve been reading a lot lately. Sounds more high brow than it actually is – I know people have book lists for this year but I doubt many, if any, of the books I read will feature on these! I do have a copy of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ which I intend to read, I also…
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Doesn’t anyone read books anymore?
We are at the stage now of moving from having a ‘child’ to having a ‘teenager’ and with that comes a re-arranging his bedroom! Dearest Son has one of those beds that has a ladder which gives a large amount of space underneath – currently FULL of storage boxes of all shapes and sizes. We…
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‘Juicing’ Diary
Warning for the gentlemen readers: you might find this post contains a little too much information of the female type – read at your own risk! For a few years now, I’ve followed the Britsh guru of juicing, Jason Vale (The book). Every year just after New Year, he encourages as many people as possible…
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The Bad Boss
The things he wants to do, the path that he has planned. The games he learns to play, to beat the other man. The face he tries to think with, the one he’ll use to talk. The lengths he has to take, to stand out from the flock. Different roles are taken on, the words…
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Gardening Progress at Last!
The Motivation Fairy made a welcome return this weekend, despite the weather, which saw all sorts of things being thrown round the back garden like a scene from the Wizard of Oz. Getting ‘that bit’ at the front of the garden tidied has been on my list of jobs for a while and now I…
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How has your week been?
I’m not sure how I would describe this week, it’s been a real mixed bag of highs and lows. I have had to try extra hard to find the silver lining, the brighter side of life, which is something I always try to do these days. The home-schooling is going along nicely and we are…
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Changes Within
There are changes I’ve noticed in my body; My arteries are now highways for hormones, my joints are community centres for pain, fat cells find new homes – daily and always bring their friends. I have someone elses face, I’m not even sure all those thoughts are mine. I’m sure I’ve tasted motivation, but can…
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Family Quotes
We keep a sheet on a door which we use to put quotes from the family on – you know the sort of thing, when someone says something you all found really funny or suprisingly clever? Well, that’s what we do and I would like to share some of them with you today (names witheld…
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I need to focus
Hot chocolates, cocoa and some honey-chai tea Thats what today has in store for me. Our car outside is coated with another layer of snow I did replace the battery so I know its good to go. I have some jobs to do outside and in the home, but my mind is elsewhere today, my…
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