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Burnout, depression - Recovery, Decluttering, Lifestyle, Mental health, Parenting, Wellbeing

Ten easy peasy decluttering tips – How to get started and face up to the Mountain of Overwhelm

March 15, 2019 15 Comments

I have finally cleared enough clutter to leave a little space in my life… to start a blog. Here I share some decluttering tips with you. Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for the happiness in the future Wayne L. Misner These are just 10 decluttering tips that I try to follow […]

Burnout, depression - Recovery, Food, Lifestyle, Parenting, Wellbeing

Love on a plate

March 12, 2019 16 Comments

Cooking was never my thing It didn’t interest me. I was never taught to cook at home (I didn’t know food can be love on a plate). Except for a few ‘Home Economics’ lessons from which I proudly returned with a ‘sausage stew’ that had somehow miraculously ‘worked’, I never managed to produce anything remotely […]

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Help! I’ve got playdate anxiety… and I’m the parent!

February 22, 2019 6 Comments

Whenever one of my kids asks to invite one of their friends round, I get a bit nervous. You could call it playdate anxiety. My knee-jerk reaction is to say ‘no’. But I’m working on it. Playdate disaster I think I was traumatised in early parenthood when the first playdate I arranged turned to disaster. […]