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What’s your favourite waste of time?

June 20, 2011 By Ellen

Time is hurling me towards my book deadline at the moment. And you’d have thought the pressure and importance of the whole thing would focus my mind, wouldn’t you? However, instead of writing, one rainy Saturday afternoon I find myself googling that song from the eighties by Owen Paul. Like you do. And on the […]

Filed Under: blogging for happiness, housework, me, Reasons to be cheerful, The good things..., the internet, trivia, Write

Do stop whingeing – it really doesn’t help

May 14, 2011 By Ellen

Hi, it’s Perpetual Pollyanna here again banging my tiny little drum on the subject of positive thinking. The week began with Boy One taking the huge leap of joining his primary seven classmates at the outdoor centre at Ardentinny.  Exhaustive preparations ended with me dropping off a pale and over-excited 11-year-old off at school with […]

Filed Under: aspergers, blogging for happiness, Reasons to be cheerful

Finding positivity in the face of more exits than entrances

January 13, 2011 By Ellen

Generally, in both blogland and the real world, I try to adopt a position of merciless positivity. I am convinced there is a silver lining under every cloud even if it’s of the what-doesn’t-bust-you.. variety. Lately, though, we seem to have been surrounded by more cruel coincidences than seems right by anyone’s measure. I hasten […]

Filed Under: Archers, blogging, Bucket list, Christmas, family, grief, Reasons to be cheerful

Reasons to be cheerful – a blog hop, skip and jump

January 8, 2011 By Ellen

I love New Year. Not the actually night, but the fact it is passed and we’ve been given a whole 12 months to have a go at. I’m also a great believer in positive blogging – thinking happy, if you will. So when Mummy From The Heart started Reasons To Be Cheerful, 1, 2, 3 […]

Filed Under: blogging, Reasons to be cheerful, slimpod, texting, The good things..., thinkingslimmer

Reasons to be cheerful (part 3)

June 23, 2008 By Ellen

Showing my age with a dollop of Ian Dury here, I just wanted to say that while the previous entry is necessarily bleak I am not wading through the Slough of Despond.I have many, many causes to be thankful from the Boys and the Panther through my fabulous friends and family to health and wealth […]

Filed Under: Ian Dury, Reasons to be cheerful, Something happened in my life

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