Dining chairs are a huge component of your home interior design, serving both as practical needs and visual focal points. When you are upgrading or updating your dining area, the decision between refurbishing the old chairs or purchasing new ones often presents itself as a challenging one. Both options have unique benefits that depend on […]
The problem with mindful eating
Slow, deliberate mouthfuls, savouring every crumb, only giving your body exactly what it needs and not a dribble more. Great. A wonderful theory – in fact more than a theory. Mindful eating really works, when done, erm, mindfully. If you pay attention to what your body is telling you, you eat better food and fewer […]
It started as an ordinary afternoon
It was the middle of a very slow afternoon when she lined up the pens with the top of her keyboard and pushed back from the desk. Traffic flowed by the eight-storey glass and chrome office building. Lorries, bike couriers and pedestrians moving on, not stopping. Inside colleagues murmured, typed and sneaked glances at the […]
How Restaurants Could Cater Better For Neurodivergent Children, According To Parents
For many of us, eating out at a restaurant is a treat that saves us on the dishes and helps us to socialize. But, for families with neurodivergent children, even quick meals out are often far from joyful. And it’s hardly surprising when you consider that, unique dietary requirements alone, children who are prone to […]
sticks and stones
I knew it was time for the holidays to end because the insults were getting more and more inventive as the children and I got more and more crabby. Son One wins the prize with his “big fool-headed dodo” while Son Two, the object of his invective, has developed an especially irritating Picachu impression. The […]