Finding the chase and cutting to it

Motives are what define us. They allow us to get up in the morning and get a boogie on rather than languish in bed – and believe me, we have all had those mornings where staying in bed and pulling the covers over our heads makes the most sense! For many, their jobs allow them […]

OK, last weekend the clocks changed and I did have that extra hour in bed last week. But I am still working on summer time, so when I woke up early this week, I seized the day. My beloved husband has taken up a lot of the slack since I got a bad bug last […]

I start, along with the confusion of achieving something new, my husband’s tone was “game show announcer” – not something I hear from him very often! The prompt for this announcement was my own surprise at having finished a packet of yeast before it had gone past it’s best before date – again, my beloved’s […]

This has been inspired by https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067222001201 . Having funded a pump myself, I appreciate that the pump itself is an expensive piece of kit, but that isn’t where the costs lie. Let me take you through this. Examination of cost of buying and running a pump. Item Frequency of payment Cost over life time. Pump […]

This may seem like an odd thing to say, given my posts are all about what I/we have done as a family to lower our carbon footprint, but I am a very private person. Being type 1 diabetic, I don’t feel that that is something I can do easily. It’s a relatively obscure condition for […]

I have spent 30 years of my life paying rent: 6 years to landlords and 24 to a bank for a mortgage. Thankfully, those days are over – we decided to overpay our mortgage once we were off a fixed rate deal because our interest rate had gone from 1.34% to 8.2% – as that […]

Tenacious is a word often used to describe me, whether a small kid working out how insulin worked or playing bridge with my family on a Sunday evening, I am a sticker. I learn what I need to do something to the best of my ability and have goals saying whether that process is complete. […]

You know how much I love a three day weekend.  When my husband asked what I wanted to do with the last useful bank holiday in the UK this year, I said “clean the gutters”. One of the few big benefits of a “chalet bungalow” is having gutters that can be easily reached reached with […]

I am not a nationalist, so this is going to be a big disappointment to anyone expecting that kind of rhetoric… This picture sums it up for me: a lavendar bush we planted in 2022 which is hosting a cabbage white butterfly, several types of bee, and a moth of some kind. It’s a little […]

I have rearranged my pre-planned publishing list to squeeze this in, because I think it’s pertinent to our time. Which contradicts the subject of this post: procrastination. There are all things we procrastinate about and research actually shows this isn’t necessarily a bad thing (unless you have a time limit on anything). Waiting to or […]