Goodreads #36 – Parenting
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I’m interested in reading parenting posts, so here is a list of posts I’ve enjoyed reading recently all connected to parenting. The One Where The …
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I’m interested in reading parenting posts, so here is a list of posts I’ve enjoyed reading recently all connected to parenting. The One Where The …
Technology advances every month offering new products and, through technology convergence we’re offered products that combine more and more features into one product. However do these advanced …
A few years ago my now five year old daughter showed an interest in taking photographs. Obviously as I love taking photographs I was keen to encourage this, but not with my camera! So Grandpa gave her …
Tasks, there are lots of them; ones we want to do, ones we do for other people and the ones we feel we should do. I’ve worked on improving my productivity for years and used a variety of systems …
Chicken and cashew nuts is our favourite slow cooker recipe and it goes down well with the whole family, plus because it only needs to cook for four hours you don’t need to remember to put it on …
With school starting this week there are going to be a lot of milestones and memories to capture. As this is our first time at school I don’t know what to expect, but don’t want to miss …
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to capture memories of my children. B is starting school soon, a real milestone, and I’m concerned I’m not capturing as many of M; second child …
I feel so annoyed I want to scream; so frustrated I want to cry and so demoralised I want a hug. I was planning on writing a post about our exciting visit to a steam rally at the weekend, but …
September is fast approaching and I’m getting the impression many parents are looking forward to their children starting school. But I’m not. I know some of my issue is the unknown, but …
Within an hour of meeting Millie I knew she liked singing and gymnastics; see the video below. By bedtime I’d been told she liked horse riding and ice skating, and most strangely that most of …
Can you only call it a success if you complete the plan? My plan for the weekend was to clean the house using a process I’d found through Pinterest. My checklist suggests I didn’t get very …
University is harder than I remember; although as I was an undergraduate over 15 years ago maybe it is my memory! I’ve been quiet recently because I’ve been away at University of East …
Repeating tasks are the key to achievement; either by making sure things run smoothly or by encouraging the little and often approach to completion. It is over five years since I had the revelation of …
Spring has finally happened in the UK and the forecast for the long weekend was sunny and warm, so we were all off to Dorset with my in-laws. Unfortunately our plans dramatically changed with me …
We’ve only been in our new house for just over two months, but we are already settling into a routine for Saturday mornings, and it is has something for the whole family to enjoy. We start by …
I assumed in our own house we would have the power to decide what we did to it and to choose our own service providers. However this appears not to be the case with telecommunications. Someone has a …
Writer’s block is a known phenomenon and as my last post was in August 2012 it could be assumed that is what I’ve been suffering from. But it isn’t. In fact I wrote the next post …
Email has become an ongoing issue for most people and despite being able to access it just about anywhere any time the problem doesn’t appear to be reducing. It is estimated almost 300 billion …
Through Pinterest I recently found a new blog that is so where I am at the moment I want to share it. Get on with it already! is written by Stacey-Lee and she describes herself as a perfectionist and …
With 2 million blog posts being published every day how do you keep on top of them? Of course you don’t. You probably have a number of favourite sites you follow, but may still struggle to keep …
As I get older I’m more aware that I have the same 24 hours in a day as everyone else, so what I achieve comes down to how well I use that time. My initial introduction to efficiency was from my …
Finding the perfect productivity system is a goal for many people, including myself. I’ve been searching for the system for many years, as shown by the second post on this blog and think I may …
The old saying to kill two birds with one stone is a great example of achieving more with the same effort. If you can find these in your life it feels great because you make progress in several areas …
My mum recently died after fighting cancer for 10 months. It came as a shock to everyone in the family because the original diagnosis was very positive. I spoke at her funeral and evening prayers and …
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