I know I am late to this party but by accident (1 minute in a car park before work) I actually listened to the words of Pink's song "Raise your glass" and I fell in love with...
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Baby vs Career? Really?
This is a thought that occurs to me pretty much every day. Stay at home Mum, working Mum, stay at home Mum, working Mum. Which is best for my two gorgeous mini-people?
Me...
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read - Witty, intelligent and previously very dangerous
Mark "Chopper" Reed
1954 - 2013
Take away the violence, that thank goodness in later life he did, and you had a larger than life Aussie character who knew he'd...
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Inside their head...perception is reality.
My husband wooed me with the phrase "Perception is reality", that is if by "wooed" you mean really pissed me off. When we met I was surprisingly very wide-eyed and I believed...
Saturday, 27 July 2013
Carrie Bradshaw EYHO!
The last person I ever imagined as overly-inspiring was Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City. So when I saw that she was speaking at a Business Chicks event I was a little...
Thursday, 4 July 2013
Is WALL-E one of the greatest movies ever made?
Creativity is this strange strange entity. I can't work out why it exists. It used to be evidence that God existed; he created us so we naturally created too. But then I started...
Friday, 21 June 2013
Little arms, BIG hugs.
Someone asked me today to close my eyes and imagine a place where there is love. Of course I'm sure like most people my mind flashed my hubby's face up, but I settled on the...
Friday, 24 May 2013
SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE: RIP Drummer Lee Rigby 1987 - 2013
We won't forget
We won't rest
until Humanity is restored
until life, your life, is valued, cherished
And your son will know
you changed the world for the better
One...
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Happiness is love. fullstop
I just read about the longest-running longitudinal study into human development. The Harvard Grant Study started in 1938 and followed 268 Harvard graduates for 68 years. And...
Monday, 29 April 2013
5 peculiar habits of happy people
Shawn Achor said there were five things you had to do to every day for 21 days to change the way you view the world. Well I'm stealing two of his and adding three that have been...
Friday, 26 April 2013
Woofs, neighs and oinks
Animals make me very happy.
I don't really know why I am so drawn to them, maybe it's their innate authenticity, despite them not speaking english you are left with no uncertainty...
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Love not war...
I am so grateful today for what others have done. I hope their sacrifice is remembered and felt for years and years to come so that we can continue to live in peace and never...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Children make me happy...
Today's post comes from someone that needs little introduction as she is awesome, both for her work as a child behaviour consultant and for the what she shares on social media...
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Working Mum aka losing your mind
Ok so I am still a little in shock here, sitting in my pjs, as only two days ago I confirmed the change in date to tonight, for a girl's night out with two smashing Mums from...
Friday, 19 April 2013
Human Connection
I struggled so much with the choice to return to work, especially fulltime given I had two gorgeous toddlers, but what I found in my new role at Adshel were people that you only...
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
What makes you happy?
Other than The Bloggess I have had some generous tweeps share what makes them happy, and as we are half way through #hAPpyRIL I thought it fitting to share the first of...
Monday, 15 April 2013
How to catch a star
We have reams of books for the boys, partly because I read to them from when they were five weeks old, and partly because my lovely mother-in-law makes a point of buying them...
