Finding the chase and cutting to it

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 […]

As we have travelled to another part of the UK, Glasgow to be honest, one of the greenest places in the country in terms of power generation… Preciously what, may I ask, has that to do with on-line shopping, please? Oh, sorry, got distracted by the 20 or so wind turbines I can see spinning […]

My son believes I work too hard. I love my day job, so it doesn’t feel like work to me but my fitness app is of the same opinion “try to optimise rest today”. Economically, I’m very much of the belief that hard work pays dividends, gets rewarded, etc. But only 10% of effort is […]

In a world full of Baby Boomers and Millenials, my generation were never called anything by Gen X.  Born between 1965 and 1980, I am slap in the middle of “my generation” and I am going to be talking about it. We’re the misfits.  Our parents are boomers, and we just make up 20% of […]

Weight-watchers has been a trope in many middle aged romcom books over its 62 year history – but it has recently been facing stiff competition from app led regimes such as Noom, and finally from a simple medication that achieves weight loss by curbing appetite. There is a hitch though… You’re kidding me, I would […]