Category: Inspiration & Lifestyle
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#MakeTheChange2015 and Win a Fitbit One
At the beginning of the year I was contacted by Intellicig and asked to take part in their campaign #MaketheChange2015. I’ve had emails from e-cigarette companies before, they often want me to try out or review their products and I always say no. The reason I say no is that I used to smoke. Many,…
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Reflections and Highlights 2014
Every year I write a little post about the Highlights of my year. I have no idea if anyone reads them, but I’ve spent this morning looking back at the last few years and I’m struck by how few of my yearly highlights are things that I planned for or could have predicted. Of course…
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Top of The Retro Chick Pops 2014
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas Day? Today you should imagine me a little like a festive repeat, or maybe a regular radio show where the presenters have popped in a week before Christmas and recorded a show to go out over Christmas, because todays post was written on the 23rd December, and…
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Fifteen Festive Favourites
Just 2 days I go was grumping about all the things I feel guilty about at Christmas. So I think Old Fashioned Susie decided I needed a bit more of the festive cheer around here and tagged me to tell you my favourite festive things. I don’t often do these tagging things, but hey! It’s…
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The 5 Guilts of Christmas
I really love Christmas. I don’t care about presents (though they’re nice, obviously!) and I don’t spend Christmas Day with family these days, in fact I’m not even sure it’s Christmas day I love. I love December. I love the twinkly lights on crisp cold dark evenings, I love that everything is “spiced” I love…
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On Starting Again and the Power of Perseverance
2 and a half years ago I started climbing a mountain. I came back from a holiday and suddenly realised that over 3 years I had gained 2 stone. I did little exercise apart from walking into town to go to the pub occasionally or a half hearted go at the Wi Fit and I…
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Why Are You Here?
Apparently blogs are dead, and no one wants to read them anymore. So why are you here? Back at the end of October I read this article on IFB about the death of Fashion Blogging based on some information from a BlogHer survey, and I thought “hey, I should write about that”, but then I…
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10 Ways to Beat the Seasonal Blues
The clocks have gone back. With that seemingly little change comes motivation sapping cold, dark evenings and long, dreary indoor days. Seasonal Affective Disorder is a properly recognised disease where depression sets in during the winter months, but even without suffering from full blown depression many people feel a bit low and lacking in energy…
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#LeaveYourLegacy Autumn Fitness Goals
Todays post all started with an email back in September from sportswear brand Legacy, suggesting I get involved in their campaign for Autumn to set 4 goals to keep motivated and maintain a healthy body and mind. They’ve even sent me some of their range to help me get motivated. I went for the leggings,…