If you are a very small child, congratulations! Roll out the banner, as they say. (And might I also commend your reading skills?). Babies being born today, tomorrow, yesterday, barring accidents or serious illness, can now realistically hope to live to 104 years old. I think this is good news, although I appreciate not everyone … Continue reading Use It Or Lose It People
I often resolve to do things and just don't get around to them. Printing out photographs and framing them, baking and icing a Christmas cake, sitting down and playing the piano for 10 minutes in a day. However, making elderflower cordial - long on the list - can be proudly ticked off this June. I … Continue reading A Little Taste of Summer
I lost my phone recently. I mean 'lost' in the RIP sense - I'm that sensitive about it. Cliché I know, it fell out of my back pocket and into the loo. It was only in there for, like, two seconds; but that's all it took. Several hundred spells of holding down the power button, … Continue reading Before I Was The Person I Now Am
I fear I may be developing an addiction. Another one. Okay, I'm being flippant with my use of the word 'addiction', but as per the dictionary's take on things, technically, the label is correct. My name is Laurie and I find it hard to pass a garden centre, in May, when there's (any, tiny hint … Continue reading All This Talk of Mental Health
I feel it's safe to say that April is a good month. One of those months that's, you know, popular. You can't help but like that it's starting to get warm and Spring can officially be felt - but it's not quite Summer, so there's a lot of excited anticipation going on without any of … Continue reading Good Times Happen In April
We took a trip... away to sunny Spain. We pressed the 'off' button. We wanted - correction, we needed - to reboot. It was that or crash and burn (or at least fall over and find it really hard to get up). There's something about knowing you're going on holiday to make it seem like … Continue reading Wish We Were There
I'm not really sure how long International Women's Day has been around. Cue yet another trip to 'google', who specially-designed a 'Google Doodle' to mark the day... That's the thing about International Women's Day - it's become quite trendy and celebrity-endorsed. (Whoever said that women's issues are SOOO 1960?) My search turned up that it's … Continue reading I Am Woman – Hear Me Roar
It's been a rainy month - wet in a way that settles and seeps into your bones. It's hard not to feel betrayed - green shoots are up, there's a stretch in the evening and let's face it, we're all more than ready for a little bit of sun. But February is forcing us to … Continue reading Nothing Ever Really Stays As-Is
I quite like Valentine's. But maybe it's easy for me. I have a lovely husband willing to take me out for dinner - yes, public dinner on Valentine's night, when any self-respecting in-a-long-term-relationship person should be being all anti-Valentine's... What a sweetheart. It's important to have love in your life - but it doesn't have … Continue reading Spreading Some Self-Love Vibes
I. Heart. Coffee. And I know I'm not alone. I love the smell, I love the taste, I love the ceremony - I love the way it makes me feel, I love the comfort it brings, I love the promise it makes that life is good and will keep getting better. Because that's the power … Continue reading I. Heart. Coffee.
