A Coronavirus dominated Mothers’ Day
Things to do on Mothers’ Day Who would have thought a couple of weeks ago that Boris Johnson would now be telling us the best present we can give to our mothers this year is to stay isolated from them? Challenging times indeed. It is natural to want to be with family on this special […]
Avoiding Corona Virus Stress
Ways to Manage Corona Virus Stress Along, I suspect, with most of you, I’m feeling a bit stressed and worried about the Corona virus (Covid-19). Just to be clear, this is posted in the early days of it taking centre stage in the UK. Everyone has their own story to tell about how it is affecting […]
How to be a Grown Up!
How to be a Grown Up! Those two look like they are having a ‘grown up’ conversation! Are you Emotionally Mature? Yesterday a good friend of mine recommended Marian Keyes new book ‘Grown Ups’ to me. I don’t really know much about Marian Keyes or her books, but I was immediately thrilled that I’d listened to […]
Are you avoiding me?
Avoidant Personality Disorder Avoidant Personality is not a term to be used loosely, but sometimes I wonder if I might actually be suffering from it. Anyone who knows me at all will know that I am a mass of contradictions. For example, I’m not very social, but I do like to host small dinner parties […]
Are you a Christmas Scrooge or Bob Cratchit?
Are you a Christmas Scrooge or Bob Cratchit? Our family love Christmas. Saint Mick of Thana turns into Bob Crachit, full of Christmas spirit and good will. He is generous to a fault and surpasses even Tiny Tim in his kindness. The girls are full of Christmas cheer. They don their Christmas pudding earrings and […]
You Know You’re Middle-Aged When …
How you Know you’re Middle-Aged! A Steady Middle-Age I haven’t had much to blog about lately as October has been a fairly steady month. and I’ve felt pretty ordinary and dare I say, middle-aged. I’ve corrected myself when using middle-aged derogatively but … life has been pleasant but uneventful. I’ve been back in the UK […]