Category: Inspiration & Lifestyle
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The 5 Biggest Mistakes I Made When I Became Self Employed
Being self-employed is a dream for a lot of people. They imagine themselves throwing off the shackles of the 9-5 to do their own thing, working on their laptop in coffee shops, taking time off whenever they feel like it and, especially when we’re talking about being a self-employed blogger, getting all sorts of freebies.…
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Making Those New Years Resolutions Stick
Ah, welcome to January. The gym is suddenly busy, the shops are full of workout equipment and protein bars, and by Valentines Day everyone is back on the chocolate and wine. This year, for possibly the first time in my adult life, I honestly want to carry on into January exactly the same as I…
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Top of the Retro Chick Pops 2015
Tomorrow is New Years Eve, and yet another year will have flown by. As is now tradition I shall end the year with a look back at this years most popular posts. They’re not the most read posts overall necessarily, that’s a topic for another post perhaps, they’re simply the posts I wrote this year…
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My Favourite 6 Christmas Movies
Some people will tell you Christmas is all about family, giving and receiving gifts, religion, or eating your own bodyweight in Pringles. I think it’s all about Christmas Movies. Well, some of it is anyway, a lot of it is about all those other things, of course. Every year, as well as wearing my vast…
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Because Social Media IS Real Life
I’ve read 2 articles in the last couple of days that have prompted me to think about Social Media a lot. The first is the story of Essena O’Neil who at the grand old age of 18, has dramatically quit Social Media, deleted photos from her Instagram account and changed the name of the account…
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Some More Netflix Picks
Back in February I told you how my Netflix scepticism had transformed into an obsession. I shared some of my top picks from Netflix at the time. Well since then I’ve found a whole host of other stuff to obsessively watch (and rewatch) over and over, so I thought it was time for another quick…
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10 Reasons to Look Forward to Autumn
At the moment it feels like someone pressed the “Autumn” switch. September started and BOOM, grey skies, drizzle, weather so chilly I need to wear a jumper at home instead of opening all the windows and putting a fan on. I guess the only way of guaranteeing that we’ll have another burst of Summer at…
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Meet The Pinkertons
I do love a good detective drama. Not the sort with grizzly murders and serial killers and nastiness, but the nice, gentle, personality focused sort. Regular readers will know of my mild obsession with Poirot, and a recent Netflix discovery was Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries. I have a tendency to binge watch stuff and I…
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What Do You Want to be When You Grow Up?
I bet when you were little you had an answer to that question right away? When I was little I read A LOT. Like if I was at breakfast and I didn’t have a book I would read the back of the cereal packets. My Parents took me on a day trip to France when…