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Some people work to live, others live to work. I started thinking about what category I fell into, about whether what I did was a means to an end or something that I was passionate about and filled me with enthusiasm. Posing the question on Twitter, “would you you willing…
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I love to write. When I was smaller I would write short stories, poetry and screen plays. Yes I said it, when others were outside riding bikes and scraping knees, I was inside listening to Ultimate Chaos (remember them) and writing screen plays which of course always conveniently had…
Continue readingOnce again the HMRC Tax Credits have deemed it necessary to shaft me! Last time it was blamed on the change of laws and legislation when the new governemnt came in -halving the amount we received towards childcare, this time it was due to my earnings being more than they…
Continue readingWell not cheating as much as straying though some may count that as the same thing. I still love you and although my attention hasn’t been 100% on you recently, that’s just because there has been so much on my mind… Blog, oh dear Circusmums, you are my first love…
Continue readingI’m not sure if this is a change of direction as such, more of me stepping back and realising the blog isn’t quite representing all of the things I’d hoped it would be. As I tried to explain in my about me page and in my choice of blog title,…
Continue readingAs you know, I have a bit of a growing obsession with Wicked the musical and may admit to having seen it twice in less than the space of a year.. anyway, I now have four new books all based around Wicked and have just finished the first, which is…
Continue readingI’ve been eating like a horse the last few weeks, literally anything and everything I could lay my hands on, though by some stroke of luck, all that ever came to hand were bad, indulgent, high calorie, high fat foods. No wonder then that I’m sluggish and seem more prone…
Continue readingToday I spent the day working from home. I’d been requesting (read as begging, bugging, sulking about) home access for over two years and the Olympics played a vital role in my request finally being granted. Maybe it’s the Olympics, or maybe it’s just my manager having enough of my…
Continue readingWhat did you want to be when you were a child? A policeman? A doctor? Perhaps a Veterinarian? I wanted to be a lawyer or a doctor for most of my tweens and teens, until someone kindly pointed out how long it actually took to qualify in either profession. Anything…
Continue readingEveryone is said to be expert at something, the problem is it takes some people longer than others to find that one thing that only they can do the best. Some never find that skill about them that makes them stand out from the rest. I fear sometimes that I…
Continue readingFind out how fellow blogger Sian went from couch potato to fitness guru in this open and honest guest post.
Continue reading> When the Thelma, my personal trainer said she’d take us to a yummy healthy cafe called Happy Kitchen across from London Fields I was more than a little bit skeptical. She spoke of the food as being gluten, refined sugar free and I instantly thought that the menu had…
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