I appreciate effort. No matter how small, silly or irrelevant, I appreciate effort. Billy Chapata If a thing is worth doing it's worth doing badly. Yes. That's right. Badly. I know the saying we grew up with is that if a thing is worth doing it's worth doing well. But I think that version is… Continue reading If A Thing Is Worth Doing – It’s Worth Doing Badly
Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.Gabriel Garcia Marquez Like, I guess, pretty much everybody I've gained a bit of weight during lockdown. Between joining in with the quarantine baking craze and working on the desserts/baked goods section of my cookbook - without being able to parm… Continue reading Lifestyle Changes
“You should never make a decision the day before your period.” ~ Miranda J. Barrett I had a Mirena coil fitted in May last year. That's the intrauterine device that releases a low, localised dose of progesterone as opposed to the one that doesn't use any hormones. I've been meaning to tell you about it… Continue reading My Mirena Coil Experience
“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.” ~ Evelyn Waugh I am always late. Always. For everything. No... wait... that's a lie. I manage to be on time to catch flights. But that's only because airport arrivals are designed just right for me. They ask me to be there three hours early. Then when I'm… Continue reading I’m Never Going To Be On Time, Get Over It
“It wasn't merely fatigue. although it continued to worry me how tired I was all the time. I had a strange sense of missing something, of being in the wrong place - no matter where I was.” ~ Josh Lanyon Can I just start by saying that if you are exhausted all the time, if you… Continue reading You Probably Have A Vitamin D Deficiency
“At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I'd be able to get… Continue reading We Need To Be Able To Fit Work Around Our Health
image source: wikimedia "I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that I'm fine." ~ Gail Devers Do you need to get your thyroid checked? I only ask because I had no idea that I did until after I had it done, last week. I had a… Continue reading Do You Need To Get Your Thyroid Checked?
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe > First, fix yourself a drink. A nice cup of tea or coffee. A cool refreshing glass of fruit juice. A good whiskey or wine. Whatever beverage you think you'd most like right now. And sit down somewhere quiet… Continue reading How To Be Kind To Yourself
Okay, so if some drunken boys ever happen to give you a beef burger that's been sat outside in the sun all day then cooked on a re-lit barbecue, at night, in the dark - don't eat it. Especially if the burger seems to be of an unusually squishy consistency. Unless you're really, really, really, REALLY… Continue reading Public Service Announcement
"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer When I studied for my sociology A Level our teacher always used to say that if we were… Continue reading Sub-Cultured
Make-Up & Mirtazapine 