Every year, between Christmas and New Year’s Day, you can find me snacking on leftovers, checking the calendar daily (because I seem to always wake up believing it’s Sunday), reflecting …
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How My Mom Spent Her 10th Wedding Anniversary
These are two of my parents (I have three). They got married on the beach when I was 9. And it was beautiful. It was their 10th wedding anniversary on …
Things My Brothers Say
I have two younger brothers. And I love talking to them. As of March 2019, Crumb (not his real name) is 9 and Nugget (not his real name) is 6. …
25 Entierly Attainable Things To Do This Year
Fact: I don’t make New Years resolutions. My reason? They never really feel concrete enough. I suppose ‘get more sleep’, ‘stop eating so many cupcakes’ and ‘actively use your gym …
Waking Neighbours & Eating Cake Pops
It’s the 6th of December and just after 5am. The house is silent and outside, it’s still dark. I’ve only just woken up when my family barrels into my bedroom. …
5 Useless Skills I’m Great At
We’ve all got things we deem ourselves to be great at; skills that aren’t particularly useful – but we’re kind-of-sort-of proud of them nevertheless. Not to toot my own horn …
Thank You
Last week I set out to write a thank-you note a day. I knew it wasn’t an ambitious undertaking by any means, and that it’d be easy to achieve – …
A Beginner’s Guide To Being Above Average
The truth is: we can’t all go to space or, climb Everest or, write a one-hit-wonder that catapults us to fame overnight. But you know what we can do? We …