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Writing ➤ 26th March 2024

Body-Doubling For When You’re Struggling to Focus OR Get Started On Tasks

You know how you hear about something new and then you hear about the same thing a few more times before you really take note? I was the same with Schitt's Creek and in more recent times, body-doubling. The term 'body-doubling' is one I've only just learned about but it's a notion I recognise as a mechanism I've used as far as I can remember to focus and get started on things.

DIY Projects + Crafts ➤ 12th October 2023

A Christmas Gift Guide for Pre-Teen Girls

I do not like choosing gifts for people. In fact, it's a huge source of stress for me. Will they like it? Do they already have it? What if they pretend to like it? What if they're disappointed? Thankfully, we have a long-held family tradition of sharing gift lists and I'm really grateful we do. With that in mind, and because this pre-teen age is one I find tricky to buy for, I roped Peggy into helping me craft this gift guide for pre-teen girls in the hope it'll help you in the same way our lists help me.

Everything Else ➤ 6th December 2024

ADHD Support For Those Living In Cornwall

This is a working document which is updated frequently with the help and support available to those who live in Cornwall and have ADHD (whether diagnosed or self-realised). >> Download the .pdf version Useful READING...

Everything Else ➤ 13th March 2024

A Letter To You If You Don’t Have ‘A Village’

Dear You, They say "It takes a village" and you hate that saying because it's a stark and painful reminder that you don't have one. It hurts, it rankles and it smarts doesn't it?! I know that you often feel alone, depleted, invisible and torn. As though there's nowhere or no one in which to turn for help. You might at times feel jealous of those who do have support. Anger, too, at your circumstances. Regret for the choices you may have made. Despair at the choices which felt as though they were taken from you. Exhaustion at the monotony of it all, wishing and wanting and needing a break.

Everything Else ➤ 17th January 2025

Here’s How To ‘Bionic Read’ On Amazon Kindle

My Kindle is one of my favourite and most-used material possessions. Where I go, my Kindle will surely follow. I love that I can load it up with books aplenty and never be without a...

DIY Projects + Crafts ➤ 7th March 2024

Turn Your Handwriting Into A Font (It’s So Easy)

Right up there in the things that bring me jolts of joy are colour palettes and fonts. I just love how they bring projects, even personal ones, to life; giving them an energy and identity of their own. While I have created some fonts (and sell them), I wanted to share how you can do so with your handwriting - it's ridiculously easy and quick.

Everything Else ➤ 19th April 2024

Interesting Things I Found On The Internet This Week

Gosh, how lucky we are to live in an age where everything we want to know and learn is available on the internet at the tippity-tap of our fingertips?! When I think of all of the questions I used to ask my mum was I was younger and how difficult it must have been for her to get access to the answers she didn't know compared with how easily we just 'look things up' now... This week, I came across a few really cool and interesting things on the internet. Some of them, sososo helpful, that I couldn't help but want to share. So, here we are!

Everything Else ➤ 17th May 2023

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