Sweet for my sweet…Sugar for my honey…but Sugar is poison.
This is really interesting and though we have been hearing about the detrimental impact sugar can have on our health for a long time, these facts puts it into perspective: [ . . . ]
Category: Food for thought
Beauty.
A friend sent this to me and I wanted to share it with you all Singer, model and former First Lady of France, Carla Bruni, said in an interview: “After [ . . . ]
The Black Market and The Hummingbird Love Charm Trade
Thought I would post this as it’s one of the strangest and also disturbing things I’ve come across recently. YouTube voodoo starring dead hummingbirds isn’t just a weird internet fad; [ . . . ]
The Indoor Generation – what are the facts and figures?
We spend 90% of our time indoors despite the fact that indoor air can be up to five times more polluted than outside. Children’s bedrooms can often be the most [ . . . ]
Loneliness Part 3: Mindfulness and Pets
Welcome back to my mindfulness blog where we discuss loneliness and how mindfulness can help us. In part 3 we look at some more ways to be mindful. Walking is [ . . . ]
Loneliness Part 2: Mindfulness and Pets
In my previous blog about loneliness, I wrote about some of the things that we could do to ensure that we have new and better people in our lives. However, [ . . . ]
The Royal Wedding
Most people have been looking forward to this weekend and the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. I’m sure that Diana would have been so proud of her youngest [ . . . ]
Are audio books the new way forward?
‘Shakespeare should be seen, not read’, said Sir Ian McKellen. And he should know. Would Shakespeare have agreed with him? Absolutely! Not just because few people could read easily in [ . . . ]
Loneliness Part 1: Mindfulness
Do you feel lonely when you are alone, or do you love the solitude of being by yourself? Being alone isn’t necessarily the same thing as being lonely – solitude [ . . . ]
Why are women often held back? (Part Two of Two)
In the second part of this two-part blog series I am looking at more reasons as to why women are often held back at work, in their careers and their [ . . . ]
Why are women often held back? (Part One of Two)
In this two-part blog series I will be looking at the reasons why women are often held back. I’ve been thinking about this and wondered about those women who fall [ . . . ]
Let’s not hide behind mental health…
I remember growing up in the 1970s when all you saw or heard about mental health was either through those talking about One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken [ . . . ]
Being Left-Handed in a Right-Handed World
Did you know that 1 in 10 people are left-handed? Just like many minorities, this means that they might be under-achieving in subjects like English, science, computing and design & [ . . . ]
Boomerang children!
Many children having left home for three or four years to study are still returning home after their courses are complete. Parents who are just getting used to having their [ . . . ]
Refugee wins scholarship to Oxford University
This is an incredible story of resilience and amazing achievement. A twenty-year-old Syrian refugee has won a scholarship to Oxford. He arrived in England, in 2015, on a refrigerated lorry [ . . . ]
Peek preview of my interview with author and blogger Soulla Christodoulou
I am so excited to be sharing with you my soon-to-be-released interview with author and blogger Soulla Christodoulou. I hope you enjoy it and look forward to receiving your comments. [ . . . ]
Lessons lost in time…fathers and their children
In a recent survey it has been found that three in ten fathers have never shown their child how to knot a tie, and 29% have never shown their child [ . . . ]
Autism Awareness Day
Welcome to my blog post which focuses on autism. Did you know that today, the 2nd of April, is Autism Awareness Day, and that April is Autism Awareness Month? More [ . . . ]
Time to breathe…Part 2
This is part two of my mini blog series on Mindfulness. Just to re-cap, breathing is something so many of us take for granted…but how aware are we of our [ . . . ]
Free Childcare – allowance of 30 hours per week
In this week’s post I thought I’d share information about the free early education and childcare allowance which gives parents up to 30 hours of free childcare per child of [ . . . ]