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The art of letting go and starting again.
The art of getting by / getting over a break up - hereThe art of sleeping - hereWhen Paul and I broke up just before Christmas I initially threw myself into looking for a job and house in Sheffield, so...
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5 good things (snail mail, spring cleaning, and so much LOVE!)
1) All the love on this post (and just the love from you guys in general, seriously I feel like the luckiest blogger ever with the people who read my rambling). Just this second I found a couple of...
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Little ways I make social media more enjoyable.
We all at some time or other will have fallen guilty to comparing ourselves to others on social media and feeling like a failure in comparison, because it is so easy to forget that comparing our entire...
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Books I have read in 2017 (6 - 9) *self-help special!*
I should pop a disclaimer in here to say that these are all self-help books so if they're not your thing this post will be of zero interest to you.I read some absolute crackers last month so if you are...
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My top ten picks for Netflix.
There was one point where I felt like I had "completed" Netflix in that I had watched everything worth watching and anything left looked pretty rubbish, but lately it seems to have upped its game. I...
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Why I'm getting rid of most of my possessions and why it feels SO GOOD!
In the last 10 years I have moved house a dozen times and each time I have a "spring clean" of stuff that I no longer need, use or want. It mainly goes off to the local charity shop or is given to...
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Little things I have done lately to declutter my mind.
After my mammoth decluttering session with all of my belongings a whole heap of space became freed up in my brain and it's addictive let me tell you. So I started to think a bit more about what else I...
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Books I have read in 2017 (10 - 14)
A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen - 3/5I found this book on my mum's bookcase and I thought it looked like a book I would enjoy, considering it involves something small and furry which is always a...
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A long overdue "life lately" (trips away, taking the plunge back to work, and...
Good morning lovely blog people. I can only apologise for being MIA. Life suddenly got rather busy and the longer that time went on without me blogging the more I had to tell you, which made me wonder...
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Haworth [60s weekend].
Last Sunday I visited Haworth for the first time; somewhere I have wanted to visit for a really long time. We picked a great day to go because, unbeknown to us, it was their 60s weekend! I knew they...
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Books I have read in 2017 (15 - 18).
#15 When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalinthi 3.5/5This is a non fiction book written by Paul Kalinthi about his own experience with cancer, which sadly he did not get to finish writing. It's a powerful...
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Oops, I did it again.
Hello! Yes, I am still alive! I'm doing my usual vibe of not going anywhere near my blog for months on end then wanting to write 20 posts in one sitting so I am going to start small and just check in...
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Books I have read in 2017 (21 - 25).
#21 - The Light Between Oceans - M. L. Stedman 4/5This is a period drama about a lighthouse keeper and his wife, living a remote life off the coast of Australia, who rescue a baby from a shipwreck and...
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The last few months (Kefalonia, Amsterdam, divorce, tattoos, and Tinder).
Whoops. That was a slightly longer hiatus than expected but these things happen. I've been without a laptop, then without broadband, then without any inspiration to do anything much at all. A lot of my...
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Forgiveness.
"You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day" - ML Stedman, The Light Between OceansFor 10 months I have been holding on to a lot of anger, resentment, confusion and...
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CFS / glandular fever recovery mini-series: 10 signs I knew my health was...
For other posts about my recovery click ~here~ Over the next couple of months I aim to write a little more about my recovery from glandular fever, which I got over two years ago (Jesus Christ). If this...
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5 good things (Lincoln, long time online pals, and lots of self-care).
I am spoilt for choice with content for today's "5 good things" post because so many wonderful things have been happening to me lately for which I am truly grateful. I had been feeling a little down in...
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CFS / glandular fever recovery mini-series: 10 signs I knew my health was...
6) My random bruises disappeared. For a long time I was covered in bruises. I am a fairly clumsy person so at first this wasn't too odd but I came to realise that they were popping up left, right and...
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Why "life plans" suck.
Lately I have been doing a lot of thinking (you know, additional thinking on top of all the other unnecessary things I think about) about the timings of life, the pressure to do what everybody else is...
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Books I have read in 2017 (26 - 30).
#26 Letters To My Fanny - Cherry Healey 4/5I'm going to be honest here; I bought this book purely for the funny title and pink cover because that's how I roll. I am not familiar with Cherry Healey as a...
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