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For me, it always starts the same ….. Throat a little sore …. Throat a lot sore …… Increasingly difficult to swallow …… Head beginning to get a little cloudy and focusing on anything becomes harder than it should. Thoughts of ‘whoa, it might be coming’ but then I’ll take aggressive measures to ward off the [...]

Disclosure: I’m not being paid to write this post but I am entering it into a competition with some great prizes on offer. All opinions are my own. I do lots online and given the opportunity would gladly do much more. It’s not that I avoid contact with people, because I can be social and [...]

It’s all fun and games now that my Big Boy is a learner driver. Not so long ago it seems he was a learner walker, and the world really did seem a safer place back then. You see, I’m terrified that he may have inherited my crap-automobile-management genes, and if so this may not actually [...]

I know every Mum laments the all-too quick passing of years, but seriously, last week in one sudden swoop my first born turned 16 and became a learner driver. These two milestones combined to prove a slap of reality for this Mum who, despite being cough …. shhhh mid 40s, furiously denies birthing a child [...]

Stress management is something that I continually work on – rolling with the punches is just not inherent in my nature. From even a wee age, I had tendency to worry and also to allow myself to get over-stressed. If you’ve been there, you’ll certainly know that being a stress-bunny is just no fun. At. [...]

Today is Tuesday! And we all know that Tuesday means blogging along with Jess’s IBOT, right? Good. But today’s Tuesday is special, it’s the second in the month and you might not know it, but that means it’s the P and C meeting. Tonight, 7.30pm sharp! And, look, before we go any further, I must [...]