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Yesterday on my way home from the office I decided to refill my cup of herbal tea with hot water and accidentally spilled 100 degrees boiling water all over my hand. It was sheer torture driving home as I could feel my hand burning all the way home and this was after I spent a […]

Look at the autumn colours aren’t they just stunning? I went for a walk with the dogs and on the way back I just had to catch my breath. The thing with autumn and the colours is that you have to want to see it. Although it is everywhere, it is different from the summer […]

  I was helping my 10 year old son with his jigsaw puzzle. He loves puzzles and I am convinced he has got a special puzzle brain because when I am helping him, he sees things that I don’t see. Anyway we decided to put together all the things he has learnt as a result of […]

  I have decided to work on being present in my dealings with people and not being distracted particularly when it comes to my children. How many times have I under the auspices of multi-tasking, listened absent-mindedly to something they are telling me and just made the right noises? Well I was caught out today […]

This is the canvas in my kitchen above the bin of all places. It caught my eye as I was sitting down to write this post so I thought it must be fortuitous. Not too sure what ‘fortuitous’ means but it intuitively sounds right so I am going to with it. So why are the words on the canvas […]

As part of my creativity drive, I asked my best friend to remind me of what I used like to doing when we were at school. She said I used like baking cakes  and although I still bake the odd apple pie, I had completely forgotten that at school, people would come to me to […]