A Guesthouse that’s Good Enough for a Middle-aged Mum?
Choosing a Hotel Having used these travel tips for packing our cases, I felt confident that we would be well prepared for our Northcoast500 adventure. I hadn’t realised, though, how challenging choosing a hotel, a guest house or a B and B could be. If only we had rDuring our Northcoast500 adventure we’ve experienced the ‘same same, but different’ […]
Swimming Woes – What type of fish are you?
Types of Swimmers Fish as swimming metaphors can get complicated! I’ve tried to be patient. I’ve tried to be fair. I’ve spoken positively of my local pool. I’ve tried not to make negative comparisons between it and Thana City’s multiple swimming areas – all bathed in a warm, balmy, sunny 35 degrees glow, edged in 5 […]
The Value of Community
The Value of Community and having Good Neighbours Feeling Grateful The value of community: Today has been one of those days that I have felt really grateful for. The reason for this isn’t becasue a new (well 23 year old) Landrover, purchased from the extremely efficient, helpful team at Landrover Centre Huddersfield – whose cars are […]
The UK NHS Harmful and Substandard or Healing and Successful?
The NHS in the UK My dad’s had a bit of time of it this last year with his health, so we’ve been vey grateful to have the NHS here in the UK to draw upon. I’m a huge advocate for nursing staff particulary and feel they are incredibly underpaid and undervalued by our government. […]
Kids; Computers, Crayons and Connections
Ways to Entertain Children in Restaurants I’ve just discovered Brene Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfections, which I’m listening to as an audio book whilst I swim. It makes a very welcome change to Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commandatore which I’ve recently finished. It wasn’t that Killing Commandatore wasn’t interesting to listen to, but at 700 plus pages, I think I could […]
Join the June Challenge
Pleasing People I’ve set myself a June challenge, it’s nothing to do with diets or exercise or quantities of books devoured. … read on and see if you’d care to join me. I was talking to some friends the other day and we unearthed a very similar pattern of behaviour amongst us. It came as […]