Category: Personal

Blogging, Careers, Life, Lifestyle, Mental health, Personal, Uncategorized

Why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to be constantly productive?

Do you ever get the same feeling as me that you’re constantly running behind? Like you have a long to do list, you complete 90% of it and yet you still have a niggling feeling like you should have pushed that extra bit to get everything done. Sometimes you do have the energy to finish everything off or but some lucky stroke things take less … Continue reading Why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to be constantly productive?

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Bride, Happiness, Life, Lifestyle, Live Music, Music, Personal, Relationships, Uncategorized, Wedding

Wedding planning part one

As I mentioned in my recent travel posts D and I are engaged and planning our wedding. Full disclosure; there hasn’t been any major stresses and we have disagreed on approximately 3 things. These were centred around the usual minor things; the food, the music etc etc. I have a very helpful fiance who has done a lot of work organising. With music being a … Continue reading Wedding planning part one

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Blogging, Christmas, family, Food, Friends, Grad life, Happiness, Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Relationships, Uncategorized

A change of scene

You may have noticed a period of quiet, perhaps some tumbleweed blowing through my little slice of the internet. Its been far from intentional, I still enjoy cooking and finding new spots of food, but I find lately my quest for a full stomach is not as all consuming. When I first started this blog, I was almost a different person. Almost a shadow of … Continue reading A change of scene

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Charity, Grad life, Happiness, Health and fitness, Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Relationships, Uncategorized

Why you should consider joining Bone Marrow Register

This is one of those posts I’ve been meaning to write for a while but I could never quite articulate my feelings on it. Even now its a struggle. But I know there are even now people fighting blood cancers and lymphatic cancers who are desperately hoping for a tissue match and realistically the more people who are eligible to join the register that do … Continue reading Why you should consider joining Bone Marrow Register

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family, Friends, Grad life, Happiness, Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Relationships, Uncategorized

An ode to moving to a new place

I felt like given that it is around the time when a lot of my younger audiences are contemplating moving to a new university town and some of you might be in that horrible place between graduating and finding a job. Whether you find yourself moving to a town 10 miles up the road, or to the other side of the globe, relocating somewhere new … Continue reading An ode to moving to a new place

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Body image, Friends, Happiness, Health and fitness, Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Relationships, Uncategorized

Confidence

As I write this post I have the first line of Parklife going round my head. I’ve just eating a bowl of ice cream and I’m curled up on the sofa with a hot water bottle with cramps. Such is life. I’m not one of those people who gets inundated with people asking how I get so confident; but I’m also not one of those … Continue reading Confidence

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Christmas, Friends, Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Relationships, Thanks, Uncategorized

Christmas – the people who have made it better (soppy post)

Initially last week I planned to write a post about how to cope with the festive season when you’re really not feeling great. It can sometimes be so hard to put a brave face on when everyone wants you to be happy and to enjoy festivities. However, this time last week I got struck down with a kidney infection. I can only describe this as … Continue reading Christmas – the people who have made it better (soppy post)

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Cocktails, Food and Drink, Friends, Lifestyle, Personal, Recipes, Relationships, Uncategorized

Cocktail Night

Sweeping generalisation but most girls love cocktails; now I know there are many men who can sup even the pinkest drink adorned with the biggest umbrella and I applaud them wholeheartedly; however most of my attempts to make homemade cocktails have been with my girl friends. (Occasionally D and I will make noises about making them at home but we rarely get beyond gin and … Continue reading Cocktail Night

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Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Spring

5 ways to make yourself a bit happier this Spring

I must admit I am feeling decidedly unsparkly tonight. I have the sort of cold that has exhausted me and left me with a comically squeaky voice to boot. However, I had a lovely weekend in which D and I spontaneously went to Country to Country (a country music festival) in London. Which got me thinking, while watching literally thousands of people having a whale … Continue reading 5 ways to make yourself a bit happier this Spring

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Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Relationships

Happy Valentines Day – How you know when it’s real

First off I will say I really meant to do a lovely recipe idea to cook if you were planning on dining at home with your loved one (or friends and family – Valentine’s day is a great opportunity to appreciate all your loved ones) but I was about to go for a run and I just thought “Sod it, we have all year to … Continue reading Happy Valentines Day – How you know when it’s real

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