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A weekend of tracksuit bottoms – the yoga retreat

To my utter amazement, despite nine yoga sessions between Friday and Sunday evening, I can still move!  If you saw my last post you’ll know I was going on a yoga retreat.  It was brilliant on every level – beautiful … Continue reading

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Yoga excitement

I’m rather excited.  I’ve taken the day off work (my 16th this year) and this evening I will be at my first weekend yoga retreat.  Where am I going?  Somewhere exotic where I can feel the sun on my skin?  … Continue reading

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Worrying and yellow sweets

I tend to worry a bit a lot a stupid amount.  I am the sort of person who, if I get a few miles from my house and think that I may have left my straighteners on, I have to … Continue reading

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Slightly less chaos

This week was marginally better than last week on the chaos scale.  I actually thought I’d got it all over and done with on Monday as the size of the chaos that evening was quite big.  I got home to … Continue reading

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Paw Pal Post

It has just dawned on me that Norman cat has received more interesting mail than me in the last week.  Totally unprompted, he’s received a postcard from Corfu (from a German sounding cat!) and a letter from Ithaca. I have … Continue reading

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Nine and a bit months!

This post is now eight days late.  I meant to write it last week, but if you read Friday’s post, you’ll know that the world has been conspiring against me.  It’s still conspiring, but I am ignoring it.  For the … Continue reading

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A week of chaos

I promise that (unfortunately) none of what you’re about to read is made up.  It never is – I lack the imagination – but it may all sound a bit farfetched.  It’s actually just my life. So, this week has … Continue reading

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Little Pea and the aunties day out

This week is not going to plan.  I’ve had a broken kettle and shower, snottiness and achiness, a fire on my hob while I cooked lunch at 5pm and had to wrestle a mouse from Norman at 5am yesterday.  Sunday … Continue reading

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A different side of London

I went to a social media event yesterday morning for work.  Due to my impressive ability to get lost, I gave myself lots of ‘asking direction’ time.  Amazingly, I found it straight away and was a little early.  7.15am  for … Continue reading

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Introducing George, and George, and George, and…

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you may remember the slightly daft idea I had to give my Dad some Giant Thorny Stick Insects for Christmas.  It turns out it’s probably the best present I have ever … Continue reading

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