It’s so easy to get pulled into the world of social media and spend way too much of your time scrolling through Facebook, posting the perfect shot on Instagram, snapping endlessly on Snapchat, coming up with quippy responses on Twitter. I made a very conscious decision a while ago to limit the time I spent […]
If you’re read my previous post about the benefits of doing a weekly date night you’ve probably picked up on the fact that I’m a big fan of them! I love the romance, the chance to have a good meal in a nice restaurant, a reason to get dressed up. And because my boyfriend and […]
When you’re living with your partner it can be a shock to realise that life isn’t like a romantic film. You have to put up with bad breath, bad moods, bad habits. You see each other in your least attractive moments when you’re stressed and sleep deprived, frustrated and vulnerable. I’ve been with my boyfriend […]
For this first personal post that I’m writing, I thought I’d start with a topic that is very close to my heart…dealing with loss. When I was seventeen, my mum passed away from cancer and ever since, my family and I have been coming to terms with loss and how to live with it. For […]
January is always a bit of a mixed month. On the one hand, it’s exciting going into a New Year, writing your resolutions for the months ahead, and counting the days down to summer. On the other hand, Christmas is out of the way, the cold weather remains, and the chances are you’ll be waking […]
Christmas is almost here and what better way to get in the festive spirit than write a blog post on getting into the Christmas spirit! Let me start out by saying that I’m a big fan of Christmas…the twinkly lights, roast dinners, snuggling under blankets, going for wintry walks, spending time with people you love […]
Before I met my boyfriend of almost three years, I always assumed that finding someone to love was the hard part and staying in love was the easy part. How wrong I was! I learnt very quickly that relationships require an enormous amount of work and dedication. You have to be willing to work […]
There’s a great saying I heard from someone (and after a bit of Googling all I could find is that it comes from a magazine article published many years ago) that there are two types of people in the world: radiators and drains. Radiators, are people who are up for everything and approach life […]
