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“How did you go?” is the question I’ve been most asked since I completed my far-too-short stint, volunteering at the orphanage and charity school in Nha Trang. Actually, it was more of a “how did you go?”, with emphasis on the you. Because the people who ask know what I’m like and how much of an impact…
I know it’s been ages and ages since I’ve partaken in a bout of blogging. It’s sporadic at best, I know. I have so many things I want to say, and so much joy I get from this on small activity (although, admittedly, when I do it it is long and takes up a fair…
I am renowned, so renowned it deserves a renowned!, for sweating the small stuff. I will grasp on to a somewhat insignificant thing, and talk it over and over and over. To anyone and everyone. Whether they want to hear it or not. And even when they’re sick of hearing it, and I know they are. I’ll…
Parenting teenagers is hard. We know. We’ve talked about it previously, about how they are slowly extricating themselves from our lives, and how it is just hard in general. I gotta say, though, whilst those things are hard, I’m aware of them, accepting of them even, and able to be okay (mostly) with the fact…
I have ummed and ahhed about putting this out there for a while now … what will people think? Will it impact negatively on my professional life, or with my professional relationships? In the workplace and/or within my business networks? Will others think worse of me? Then I think about how I’m trying to make…
It’s a rush, and I try to do it at least twice a week … I squeeze my legs and bum into a pair of 3/4 length leggings, remove my bra and (usually) remember to replace it with another version – that of the sports variety – toss on a loose fitting, moisture-wicking, air-breathing tank…
I’ve been around long enough to know the power of images in advertising and marketing. I know the pictures taken are carefully chosen to evoke a particular emotion; whether this be joy or sorrow, excitement or devastation, is irrelevant. Each are designed to draw you in, to have you feel something, and, essentially, to act…
The 15th anniversary of the extraction of the Middlest Child was fast approaching and with my brain and days filled to near overflowing I felt it best to be as organised as far ahead of time as possible. I attempted, with some 4-6 weeks to spare, to extract some sort of information or idea about…
Having taken on the recent intiative of remaining one of the significant minority that has never watched Game of Thrones, and hosting no intention to ever watch it – in fact, I have made it my mission in life to never watch it (although, I do oft shy from the term “never”, as, inevitably, when I “never” the…
I’m always up for some good, sensible natter about foods and beverages that are of some level of nutritional benefit for people. The greater the nutritional benefit, the better. I’m also fascinated that ‘we’ understand that commercially marketed sports drinks come with some nutrients (or ‘nutrients’ in many cases, using the term very loosely) in…