I’m sorry I have been a bit quiet this week. I have been battling with all the sorts of things that many others have been tackling, but I’m coming up for air because you guys are my second favourite…
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Hello! I did not check in yesterday because I had to finish off my work for uni. But I am here today with something less long-winded than last week’s posts … and also something more chatty. So let’s do…
Nice Life Reminders Pip-Life something GOOD for the weekend
Let’s Play Something Good For The Weekend! It’s Time For Episode Nine
Hello, hello, hi! Firstly thank you to everyone who has helped me over the last few days in all sorts of ways. I so appreciate this and it’s honestly made a huge difference and I am keeping a list…
Ask A Grown Writer craft Craft For The Soul Creativity Pip-Life When Life Is Not Peachy
Can making stuff amidst the mayhem REALLY improve our mental health?
Yes, my friends. Yes it really can. Let’s talk about why and give you some places to start (or to continue on, if you are already a crafty sort.) What can craft do for us (apart from eventually working…
If you are a Killing Eve fan you are probably already pretty besotted with Villanelle, the Jodie Comer character. But perhaps you, like 2019 me, did not realise that a villanelle is also a TYPE OF POEM? Feeling utterly…
Hello! This afternoon I though I’d share a dinner recipe which takes a bunch of simple ingredients and transforms them into something nourishing. This is my favourite soup at the moment. It’s hearty but simple with the potatoes and…
Guess what? I lost my job of 3.5 years yesterday. Pretty crap. I loved my job and I love my ex-co-workers. I worked so so so hard, so I am pretty sad about this turn of events. Times like…
A crafty crew are joining me in making an Easy Peasy Blanket at the moment, as a sort of salve to these stressful days. Basically this blanket is a bunch of very large granny squares in just three colours…
Hello! I know there are lots of concerns and pressures on people at the moment. The list is longer than my arm. And leg. And other leg. And other arm. I care about all those things and they are…
Hello peaches. Clearly we are living in unprecedented times, times when we all need to come together and share our swirling thoughts … because knowing you are not the only one feeling this way is a real salve. I…
My book is out! You can buy it in all good bookshops in Australia (or via Amazon and similar after June if you live in another country. It’s called When Life Is Not Peachy. I hope it’s helpful to…
Nice Life Reminders Pip-Life something GOOD for the weekend
Something Good for the Weekend: Episode Eight
It’s that time of the week/fortnight/month … Yup. It’s time for some good things! Let’s get amongst them, my friends. Something GOOD For the Weekend Something GOOD to do Go and look at Kim Baise’s amazing Instagram account. You…
I’m a sucker for a list, as you may well know if you are a regular reader here. Today’s list is one is from a new-to-me blog — My Quiet Life in Suffolk — and I found that blog via my friend Rhonda’s…
Nice Life Reminders Pip-Life something GOOD for the weekend
Episode Seven: Something Good for the Weekend
Do you ever have those weeks when each day brings more fatigue no matter what you do? This week has been like that for me. I think it’s just the heat and humidity and having trouble sleeping – due…
Nice Life Reminders Pip-Life something GOOD for the weekend
Episode Six: Something Good for the Weekend
Hooray! It’s the weekend! For me, this means doing some work-y things and some studying things. But I am totally happy about all that. I’m also going to do some cooking and some sewing and some library-ing and reading…
My littlest child turned 20 this week. I know, I know. 20 is not little, no matter how rose coloured your glasses may be. 20 bumps that word teenage, the one you have been bandying about and applying to…
Nice Life Reminders Pip-Life something GOOD for the weekend
Episode Five: Something good for the weekend
This morning I got up super early and went to the market. So early in fact that the aisles were still full of empty fruit boxes and runaway grapes and squished apricots. No matter because I’m amazingly nimble with…
Amazingly we’ve ticked over into 2020 and much less amazingly we saw the new year in with catastrophic bushfires across Australia. It’s hard to know what to say about this really, when so many have said it better than…
Well hello! Three years ago a number of very difficult years in my life culminated in it all turning completely upside down. Beloved people and pets died. A very long and very hard relationship ended. Health dramas happened, one after…
I got up early this morning and had a cup of tea outside in a very light mist of rain. I can’t tell you how brilliantly refreshing it was. There were quite a lot of birds doing the same…
It’s Saturday already and luckily you have checked in here because I have BIG ideas on what you could be doing with your good self this weekend. Something GOOD For the Weekend Something GOOD to do Maybe you could…
There are lots of bread-in-a-pot recipes floating around the internet, the best of which is The New York Times No-Knead Bread. This recipe, however, is also good. It doesn’t take quite so long to make, and the spelt flour…
Do you subscribe to the New York Times What to Cook This Weekend newsletter? I do and I love it. Well. I love most of it. What I don’t love is that the seasons are reversed here in Australia…
You may know that I launched this blog back in 2006 and it’s been humming along very nicely since then. While the blog has remained much the same, the online world has shifted dramatically. To put it mildly. A few years…
Remember that rice salad recipe I was talking about yesterday? Well here it is! In case you are in the mood for rice salad. This is based on a recipe my mother-in-law Duré used to make, with some additional…
I just watered my plants and do you know what I thought? I thought “go and write a blog post you lazy sod”. So here I am with a November-style edition of my favourite join-the-dots update … Taking Stock!…
