Category: Inspiration & Lifestyle
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Things I Tried in October
Well, that’s another month gone and it’s basically Christmas now, right? At least it is if you visit the shops, the Starbucks Christmas Cups have arrived and that means Christmas music, glitter and sparkle. Before we get there though, it’s time for a quick look at a few new things I tried in October. Veloforte…
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Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
It’s amazing how often you hear the words “I’d love to….”. But you know that person will never do the thing they’d love to do, even though there’s absolutely nothing stopping them. I most commonly hear it in relation to my playing Roller Derby. When I tell people I play they’ve either never heard of…
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Halloween Home Decor
Halloween is 2 weeks away, and I’m making plans to turn my house into a spooky Halloween grotto for a few nights. I do love a bit of Halloween tat, as you can tell from my weekend purchases, however I’m not really a fan of the over the top animatronic models and rotting Zombies style…
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The Perils of Social Media, or Why I Deleted Facebook from my Phone
I think Social Media is an awesome thing. It’s kept me in touch with people I would otherwise have lost touch with years ago. Got me back in touch with people I HAD lost contact with and enabled me to run several businesses that would have been impossible 20 years ago. But despite this, a…
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Creature Comforts and the Importance of a Good Cup of Tea
This post is produced in collaboration with The English Tea Shop I mentioned in yesterdays This Week I that things are, er, a little stressful, around here at the moment. These things will pass, as they always do, and routine will be restored, but when times are tough there is one thing I have learned…
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Aviva Community Fund – Nelson’s Journey
‘In association with Aviva Community Fund 2017’ Regular readers will know that I’m a Roller Derby player. I bang on about it a fair bit (it’s worse if you know me in person, honestly). Roller Derby has added a lot to my life, and I feel very fortunate that I got the chance to give…
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Meal Prep: 3 Easy Make Ahead Lunches
Planning my meals has been one of the things that’s made the biggest difference to how I eat. It’s made me healthier, and it’s saved me money. Make ahead lunches were my first forays into meal planning. I used to get to lunch time, starving, and realise there was basically nothing in the house. Prompting…
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Dealing with a Post Event Come Down
At the moment I am totally dealing with a post-event come down. At the weekend I was in Stoke for the Roller Derby British Championships, at which we not only achieved our goal of promotion to Tier 2, but also managed to finish up placed second in the whole of Tier 3. This is an…
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How to Change Your Life by Changing Nothing
When I was younger I had notebooks. I’m talking 11-12 kind of age. Not quite a teenager, more a teenager in training. In those notebooks I would plan out the next major life overhaul I was about to make based on whatever article I had been reading in a magazine that week. Bear in mind…