Do you remember getting your first diary for Christmas. I think I was probably around 7 or 8. I was so excited and planned on pouring my heart out to Dear Diary …. If I remember correctly it was probably…
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Change is something I have learnt to embrace. It isn’t easy, and I still find it a huge challenge, but I have learnt that change offers opportunity. This post is a very special Wednesday quotation as the quote in question…
I read a lot. I am not sure how many books it was last year but I think about eighty. For 2023 I am determined to keep track of it. It is also so good to reflect on the list,…
Every day I journal. I write down my thoughts and plans, my dreams and my secrets. I have given instructions that should something happen to me, they are to be used as fuel for the fire. They aren’t to be…
As many of you know I aspire to be a novelist. I am writing every day, and dream of a day when it will be my book people will be reviewing. Writers envy There it is – the green monster…
Get ready for a roller coaster of a read! When the opportunity came up to review Catherine Hokin’s book, The Secretary, I jumped at it. I read The Lost Mother (read the review here), I just knew that I wanted…
I’m having a reading binge. Just allowing myself read and enjoy and to an extent leave the housework for another day. I have very eclectic taste in reading. I have my favourite genres, but I’ll give anything a try. The…
Reading the Nanny at No 43 by Nicola Cassidy was like being immersed in another world, a world many years ago where intrigue and mystery and wonderful charactarisation drew me into a story that I didn’t want to end. I…
Five years ago, I started my blog. I had a sense that I wanted to celebrate my fifties and find ways to be fabulous. Truthfully it wasn’t the brightest time in my life. I was recently separated and seriously struggling…
We have all been impacted by the rapid transmission of the Corona virus and the diagnosis of Covid 19 in so many. Everything has changed. Right now, I am keeping as well as I can and have elected to socially…