If you – like moi – navigate anxiety and/or depression on the reg, you probably have your own toolkit of strategies that help you step back from the spiral/black hole and…
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I listened to The Teacher’s Pet podcast last week in a marathon after work binge-listening session, and it of course raised many more questions and made me very sad for Lyn…
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Lots of people wanted to try the stitch in the blanket I am making – The Fanny Blanket – so (as promised) here is how to do just that!…
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Dearest people who read my blog via email,…
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I have been making this dish a lot, and thought you might like to make it too. It’s easy as pie, peaches!…
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Are we all so different? Or a bit the same? I am thinking a bit the same and a bit different, but who am I to say? I mean, I might…
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Dispatches From The World Of Broken-Up: If you read my blog regularly, you will know that I have been navigating a break-up over the last year and a half. It’s been…
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I posted this on my Facebook page last week, but some nice/hello-ish types aren’t on Facebook so I am popping it here too. Just in case. Ignore if if you read it already…
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If you’re quite keen to cosy up in zig-zag style, here are a bunch of ways to crochet your very own ripple blanket! You are so welcome!…
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I didn’t do a taking stock for June, so I thought I had better quick-sticks it and tap one out for July before the month has totally disappeared. How quickly is…
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What’s not to love about fairy cakes, right? They’re actually better than fairy bread, in my opinion, because they are much rarer and take a wee bit more time to make.…
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Craft For The Soul Nice Life Reminders Pip-LifeBolstering tips for those with consistently peaky health
If you have been following my blog for a while, you will know that I am about as far from the glowing, twirly-haired, no-carbs type bloggers you might see on Instagram…
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Do you need a wee pick me up? Or a short escape from concentrating on some pretty serious news issues of late? It’s ME to the rescue! Here are a few short things you…
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Cooking for yourself and your favourite people (and gosh, even for your non-favourite people because why not make things better?!) is one of life’s great joys.…
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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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Hellllooooo! Gosh. May is nearly over but there is still time to squeeze in a little stock take, right? I think so. Let’s do it! Here are some photos from this month,…
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Hallo! I’ve been doing a lot of work and not popping in here as much as I want to, so thanks for being so understanding of my busy-bee-ness!…
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Look. Some people call these pins and others call them flair and still others call them brooches but when I was a wee bairn, these were called BADGES. The problem with…
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I haven’t made it to the Marimekko exhibition in nearby Bendigo yet, (due to having the gosh darned flu for a whole month!) but it’s most definitely on my list.…
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I, my friends, am not good at naps. Nope. I never have been. I don’t know why. What I am, is good at nups. Nups are the sort of nap you…
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Oh man. I had been going so well with the juggling blogging and work and life. And then I got sick. At first I thought it was a cold. Then I…
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In 1972, photographer/artist Peter Beard and Jackie O’s sister, Lee Radziwill started work on a documentary, That Summer, about the Hamptons and nearby Montauk.…
