As ever, with my thanks to Marty for the inspiration... The year being 2023, I wondered if I could I manage to find 23 reasons to feel grateful in a year which - looking back - seems to have been filled with interesting challenges. I'll admit that when Covid first hit back in 2020, it... Continue Reading →

I spotted these questions on Tater's blog and thought "oh, how interesting" so here are my responses... Would you rather be born in your decade or ten years later? I'd rather have been born the decade before, as I'd have loved to have experienced the sixties in London. I know that wasn't an option in the... Continue Reading →

I'd been reading that Covid is doing the rounds again, and had booking us in for our Covid, flu & shingles vaccines high up on my to-do list - but those vaccinations will now have to wait a while. I thought we'd "just" got bad colds/some sort of virus/flu, and only tested because Himself seemed... Continue Reading →

I watched my first series of reality TV last month. Previously I've only dipped a toe into the an occasional episode of the odd show - predominantly when I've been staying with people who are regular viewers - and I've not repeated the experience because I found the experience odd and unsatisfactory. This time I... Continue Reading →

My first coach asked this question - not when I was her client, but of herself when she recently reached a place where she no longer needed to add her earnings to the family purse. The answer she got was one we'd talked about during one of our sessions ('cos that's what can happen when... Continue Reading →

We've not been out with our cameras for the day in ages. No one reason in particular - in the mix has been back trouble (both of us for a change), exhaustion from ridiculously long days at work (Himself), a touch of depression and a desire to cocoon (me), weather too hot or too wet,... Continue Reading →

Right now, I'm watching a LOT of rugby. The once in every four years event which is the Rugby World Cup is taking place in France, and Himself is indulging me in the full-on viewing experience. As it's available on free-to-view TV (a rarity here in the UK) I've been filling my boots 🙂 And... Continue Reading →

Time was, it was easy. The phone rang, you answered it, never knowing who was on the other end. Of course, you could chose not to answer it, but that was generally considered odd behaviour - for people who had phones, tended to want to use them. Growing up, we didn't always have them. We... Continue Reading →

When I'd first started out as a coach, I picked a business name rather than using my name, much like when I first started blogging and chose to do so anonymously. But the longer I've coached (like the longer I blogged) I felt I was hiding... and for no good reason. So, when I discovered... Continue Reading →

No, he didn't ask me himself (I wish!) If he had, you'd have heard my excitement clear across the Atlantic 😀 I learned about these questions via Ally, but it was a while back and I don't have a link to the relevant blog post (apologies for the bad blog etiquette) 😉 What do you... Continue Reading →