If you are a side sleeper, sleeping on the wrong mattress leads to hip and shoulder pain. Studies show that a good mattress should conform to the shape of your body. It should also take away the pressure off your shoulders and hips to properly align your spine. These processes are crucial for relaxation of muscles. […]
Medium-sized missive from the palace of Bundance
The sideboard is still littered with bilious orange sweeties left over from Halloween yet Christmas has started to loom. This year, the first hearing of “it’s Christmaaaaaaas” in a retail environment was recorded the Friday before last. However, it hasn’t triggered it’s usual fit of fury and resistance. I’m calm and, whisper it, even looking […]
Facebook folly: I like them on my chest and lump-free
I wrote this 5 years ago, but as I’ve just had my first routine mammogram it seems like an appropriate day to resurface this. It’s come round again. That time of year when women post silly suggestive things as their Facebook status apparently to bewilder poor men and raise awareness of breast cancer. I did […]
Would you consider travelling and world-schooling your children?
There aren’t many people in the world that truly understand world-schooling or what it is. Imagine growing up not in a regular community, but all over the world. Imaging seeing more of the world at the age of 5 than most people in the world see when they retire. Our planet is a beautifully diverse […]
A Poppy Appeal
I published this first in 2014, but, looking at the date, I thought it was worth another look. Every single fragile flower represents a person plucked from their lives. And each flower’s loss is anguish, heartbreak and grief – wounds you couldn’t see. That generation endured their pain, they could never forget. On my way […]
3 creative dreams that you can follow whilst raising a young family
I love my sense of smell
Really. I am guilty of taking my olfaction for granted. Of not paying any attention to the molecular miracle that happens with each inhalation. Of looking down my nose at the importance of matters retronasal. Until lately, that is. For the past few weeks, I have succumbed to the lurgy and been more clogged up […]
