My 4 Top Tips To Feeling Good Feeling tired? Fed up? Or just know you can feel better, but can't quite seem to get there? We've all been there at some point or other. Sometimes life gets on top of us and we stop looking after ourselves so well. We put family, the house and even our pets needs ... [ Read More ]
Make Recycling A Habit
We Must Make Recycling A Habit We are at a point where we must make recycling a habit. It isn't time-consuming, nor difficult. And it doesn't cost a penny or a cent (something you can't say about many things these days). Do you know what it can do, though? It can help save the environment and save ... [ Read More ]
Living With Asthma
Living With Asthma Asthma is a chronic lung condition and approximately one in every eleven people in the UK is living with asthma. It is a chronic condition that affects the airways and the ability to be able to breathe properly. I have lived with asthma my entire life. I can go months without ... [ Read More ]
Feeling Thankful
It's Been A Funny Old Week And I am feeling thankful that it's coming to an end! A couple of weeks ago my Dad was diagnosed with cancer. So life has been a bit of a roller coaster recently. One minute he was being diagnosed and the next minute he was scheduled for surgery. The speed at which ... [ Read More ]
Cancer Diagnosis, Overwhelming Support And Kindness
A Cancer Diagnosis, Overwhelming Support And Kindness Oh, what an emotional roller coaster of a summer it's been! We seem to have had more downs than ups, but I'm not complaining, not really, as it could have been so much worse. We started the summer with my sister giving her husband a kidney ... [ Read More ]
GlassesShop.com – My Review And Discount Code
GlassesShop.com - My Review Disclaimer: For the purpose of this post I was sent a pair of sunglasses of my choice from GlassesShop.com in return for a fair and honest review. Living in a country where the sun can shine pretty much everyday of the year (on a good year), you can forgive me for being ... [ Read More ]
Take Care Of Your Skin This Summer
Take Care Of Your Skin This Summer With spring in full swing, most of us enjoy getting out and about in the better weather, but do you take steps to take care of your skin before you step out the door to spend a few hours outside enjoying the sun? Or do you just grab your bag/dog/camera/child and ... [ Read More ]
How To Clean Makeup Brushes
How Often Do You Clean Your Makeup Brushes? Go on, you can tell me. I promise I won't judge you (to be honest I'm in no position to do so), I've only recently been making an asserted effort to clean mine more regularly, but if you don't clean your makeup brushes very often the chances are they are ... [ Read More ]
Sensible Summer Running
Summer Running Runners love the warmer months. The lighter mornings and evenings make it easier to find the motivation to get out for a run; the sunny days seem to give us a little extra energy and as we all know, it's much more enjoyable being out in the great outdoors when it's warm. But there ... [ Read More ]
Get Fit In Just Two Minutes?…Really?…
I Really Don't Thinks So!... Although that's not what I've been reading in a certain 'news' paper recently. Think about it. Do you really think that doing just a two minutes workout is going to help you get fit? Personally I can't see it and it's no wonder that there are so many people who ... [ Read More ]
When Did I Start Opting For The Lazy Workout?
Last Week It Dawned On Me... That maybe I had been getting a little lazy when it came to maintaining my fitness. Don't get me wrong I am no fanatic, but I like feeling fit (or relatively fit at least). It's something I've always tried to maintain ( I want to die as old and as fit as I can be ... [ Read More ]
Balance
Recently I've been trying to focus on getting a better balance in my life and this past week I feel like I may have finally got there. Why Balance Is Important... For me balance is important because if I have nothing to focus on I get all out of sync and find it easy to procrastinate, but if I ... [ Read More ]
Flu Jabs
It won't be long until it is cold and flu season (I am trying to ignore the fact that I have already suffered my first snuffles of the winter!) At this time of year school children are the most vulnerable to colds, flu and every other sickness that happens to be doing the rounds in the classroom, so ... [ Read More ]
Why We Should All Be Eating More Nuts…
Many people associate nuts with Christmas. I know that when I was growing up Christmas was the only time we had nuts in the house, there would always be the compulsory bowl taking pride of place in the center of the table. There would be Brazil nuts - Mum's favourite - hazel nuts, almonds, walnuts ... [ Read More ]
How I Got My Teenage Children To Eat More Fruit…
How I Got My Teenage Children To Eat More Fruit Since having children I have tried my best to educate them about the importance of healthy eating. When they were younger all I had to do was to prepare a bowl of chopped fresh fruit and they would happily munch their way through it, whilst I read to ... [ Read More ]
How Life Can Change In An Instant…
Most of us go about our daily lives, not really appreciating how precious it is. We take life for granted and go about our daily routines without it ever crossing our minds that our lives could change in an instant. Life can change so quickly as we learned this week... Living on the Greek ... [ Read More ]
What A Difference A Bicycle Ride Makes!
Despite being an early bird, my radio alarm was the last thing I wanted to hear at six o'clock this morning, as I'd had a really restless nights sleep. When I'd gone to bed last night I thought I would drift off into the land of nod quite easily, even though I had been on the computer much later ... [ Read More ]
Natural Nasal Relief From Hay Fever And Other Allergies
Springtime is here and with it comes the blooming of flowers, blossoming of trees and the seeding of grasses, all of which are beautiful to see, but can be a nightmare to anyone who suffers from hay fever or other seasonal allergies. Both my son and my husband suffer terribly with hay fever, their ... [ Read More ]
Get Trim For Summer!
I can't believe it's April already, it doesn't seem that long ago since we were in the midst of winter, all wrapped up in winter clothes! Now spring is in the air, the days are drawing out, the birds are busy nesting and the blooming spring flowers are a nightmare for anyone who suffers with hay ... [ Read More ]