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I’ve written before, urging parents who are battling through the early years with their kids NOT to reprimand older types who well-up and stammer that when their own kids were that…
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I’m reading a book that I am really loving at the moment. You know those books where you ration every chapter because you don’t want it to end? It’s that kind of…
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My great-grandfather grew up in England, but found himself living in New Zealand and later, Tasmania and Victoria. He had a particular love of the natural world, and it seemed to…
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I’m well and truly growing up and this morning I was thinking about things that I’ve learnt along the way and I thought – maybe some of these could be helpful…
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Nice Life Reminders Partnerships Photography + Art + Design Pip-LifeHow To Capture Ideas And Things To Do – And Make Them Happen
This post is in partnership with Milligram: The good folk at Milligram invited me to choose some things from their shop and write about the ones I most liked, so that is what I…
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You can be anything and do anything and own anything now, because we have the internet. Hazaaaa!…
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Craft For The Soul Nice Life Reminders Pip-LifeBolstering, Sensible Life Advice, On The Last Day Of The Year
It’s the last day of 2017 and on the cusp of a mysterious new year, I thought it would be good to share some tips on how to have nicer times.…
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Eat Nice Life Reminders Pip-LifeSometimes It’s Good To Feed Your Feelings With A Little Rhubarb Hug
When I was a kid, there were quite a few things we used to have for breakfast. They’re not really the kinds of things I eat anymore because my tastes are…
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Why do we read or watch what we do? Well. As you would know, modern marketing ensures that we’re dished up a varied array of cultural goodies to consider and consume, dependent on…
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Today is the day Australia’s (insensitive, backward and ill-conceived) Same Sex Marriage Postal Vote result will be announced. In around three hour’s time.…
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Craft For The Soul Nice Life Reminders Pip-LifeWhat to do when your feels go haywire because times are tough
So. If you have been reading for a while, you might know that things have been a bit fraught for me of late. Despite my chipper exterior blog feels, my life…
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Listening might seem easy. It might feel like we’ve been doing it all our lives (which we have of course!) But when someone is feeling a bit sh*t and needs to…
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One of the good things about going through difficult times is that it teaches you what matters most. For me, it’s making stuff, quiet time – and time with family and…
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As I kid I knew instinctively that there are comforts of home that have the power to make you feel like you truly belong and the world is an excellent place.…
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Oh hi! It’s the first day of daylight savings, and the first day of October and the first day of Octobook – a new thing I’m doing where I am working…
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A friend of a friend, Fiona Killackey, has created a blinking helpful online space called When Your Mother Dies.…
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Craft For The Soul Nice Life Reminders Pip-LifeThe Grey Area: The One About Social Media And Negativity
I was chatting with a few good people about the increasingly nasty exchanges taking place in social media comments, and it made me think again about Jon Ronson and his genius ways. And then…
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How can it be September already? I am not READY for the end of the year to arrive! I have things I still need to dooooooo, year! Dang. The days were…
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If you have been reading my blog recently, you will know that I am writing a fiction-ish book. I don’t know if it’s a good book, but I am enjoying the…
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I’ve been eating this for breakfast a lot and and it’s delicious and maybe you want to eat it too?! It’s meant to be fluffy and rustic and full of delicious spicy…
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Hahahahaha… what? I mean. Isn’t it always the way that when you are having a tough time, things get a little bit weirder?! It is for me, anyway.…
