2020 has been a strange ol’ year so far, hasn’t it? If, as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, someone had whispered in my ear that there was going to be a global pandemic and the world as we knew it would change I would have brushed them off as having one too many celebratory shandies and having lost their senses. But here we are – it’s really happening. So, as we ge[...]
At the risk of sounding like a broken record: Where has this year gone?? We went into lockdown just under 4 months ago and since then it feels like the days has flown by. In the early days it felt like time stretched ahead of us and I had suddenly had all these stolen hours in which I was going to do all the things I'd been putting off for ages, only for me to find myself here today havin[...]
I did intend to write this 'goals update' post at the end of March/early April, so I'm a month late - sorry - but since the country was put into lockdown time seems to have lost all meaning, doesn't it? My time is fairly structured as I'm still working Monday-Friday from my dining table, but I think perhaps that's part of the problem - after spending a day glued to my screen the last thin[...]
I was sat on the sofa, book in hand, staring outside into my garden the other day and thinking about blogging. I was thinking about how long I've been doing it (on and off for 10+ years) and about how I've changed as a person in that time. I think the essence of me remains the same, but the passing of time and the events within it have shaped and moulded me, and I would say Penny Of Today[...]
I know this is the understatement of the decade (century??) but it's been a weird old month, hasn't it? If you'd asked me at the beginning of the year where I thought I'd be by the end of March I definitely wouldn't have predicted I'd be in semi-lockdown at home while the world battles a pandemic. It's like something out of a film and it really hasn't sunk in for me yet that this is reall[...]
A bit of a late update this month unfortunately, I've just not had a chance to sit down with the laptop and get this post written. But better late than never, so here we are! February was an absolute stellar month for me in terms of what I was reading - I loved literally every single book I got through and I 100% recommend you all give them a go because I devoured every last word of[...]
That right there is my best friend, Rachael, and she is a superhero. If you follow me on social media you'll have seen her popping up from time to time so she won't be a stranger to you, but when Boots contacted me and asked if I would like to write a post about an amazing mother in my life in time for Mother’s Day later this month (22nd March - don’t forget!), I knew instantly t[...]
Can you believe it? After January feeling like it was never going to end, suddenly it's the 1st March and February has been and gone. It really felt like a blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind of month. I'm feeling pretty smug with myself, writing a blog post on time for perhaps the first time ever - could this be a sign that I've finally got my shizz together? I'm not going to hold my brea[...]
2020 for me is all about living my best life and part of that is spending more time doing things that make me happy and don't involve me looking at a screen. So, one of the 2020 Goals I set myself was a Goodreads target of completing 40 books this year and, so far, I'm not doing too badly! I'm quite lucky (or unlucky, depending how you look at it) to spend about 2-hours a day sitting on a[...]
I got my cats back in 2006 and, to this day, they’re still the best decision I ever made. At the time I was in the process of refurbishing a house with my ex and my pleas for a puppy were hitting a brick wall, so I took another angle and suggested perhaps we could get a kitten and, as they say, the rest is history. I first saw my boys when they were 1 day old. They’d been b[...]
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