Month: May 2019

  • Friday. The 5-4-3-2-1 of Life.

    Friday.  The 5-4-3-2-1 of Life.

    Friday. So glad you’re here.   It’s been quite a week. First ever flu shots have been administered and tolerated remarkably well. It’s been go, go and more go at work.  So much go, in fact, that I’ve gone through a pad of sticky notes.  Considering I often lose pads before getting to the end of…

  • Lovin’ Life 3Lovin’ Life 30/5/2019: Five (and a bit) Things. The Tiger Catcher’ by Paullina Simons.

    Lovin’ Life 3Lovin’ Life 30/5/2019: Five (and a bit) Things.  The Tiger Catcher’ by Paullina Simons.

    There’s twenty-something year reunion photos  and then there are twenty-something year reunion photos.  My Best Friend’s Wedding was good fun but The Goonies wasn’t just a film, it was eleven year old me’s first foray into the genre of best buddy coming of age films.  To this day, The Goonies still reminds me of my…

  • Life This Week 27/5/2019: Self Care #3.

    Life This Week 27/5/2019: Self Care #3.

    We’re in the thick of the cold and flu season plus it’s ages until the next long weekend.  I don’t know about you but the combination of the two in addition to life’s usual ups and downs is making me feel a bit run down at the moment.  My response to Life This Week’s Self…

  • Lovin’ Life 23/5/2019: Pea and Ham Soup.

    Lovin’ Life 23/5/2019: Pea and Ham Soup.

    There’s no escaping the leaves at my place right now. This autumn might be giving us those epic neon sunsets that make me feel like I’m living on a movie set each time I drive home each night but it has also delivered an abundance of leaves that need to be raked up each weekend. …

  • This Fine Tuesday.

    This Fine Tuesday.

    #sorrynotsorry if Tuesday aka Day-Off-Tuesday isn’t your personal favourite weekday because it is definitely mine.  Life’s pretty busy at the moment so this weekday off is even more sacred than usual. It seems that the weather agreed with me today as well.  Will you look at all that sun! It was just magic when I…

  • Life This Week 20/5/2019: Share Your Snaps.

    Life This Week 20/5/2019: Share Your Snaps.

    I love ‘Share Your Snaps’ time on Life This Week.  Work and life have been hectic and it’s been challenging summoning up the concentration and creativity to write anything coherent.  It’s times like these that prompts based on photos are a lifeline to bloggers like me caught up between the opposing forces of life’s commitments…

  • Lovin’ Life 16/5/2019: Five Things.

    Lovin’ Life 16/5/2019: Five Things.

    Five things this week that have made me smile: finally going for a swim with my Apple Watch.  I was hoping that it would give me an accurate distance but alas, I entered my swim as an outdoor open swim rather than one that took place in an indoor pool.  The devil is in the…

  • Life This Week 13/5/2019: Contentment Is…

    Life This Week 13/5/2019: Contentment Is…

    Contentment is …. witnessing the sun rise over another fabulous day in this beautiful city I call home.  The colours of the sky, the freshness to the air, the boats gently bobbing on the water that sense of collective anticipation of others who were out and about with me as they began their commute, morning…

  • Peak Hygge.

    Peak Hygge.

    We’re in peak hygge mode here at SSG Manor 2.0.  It’s blowing a gale outside and despite the sun, there’s a chill to the mid-morning air. Even the stuffed toys are allegedly feeling it.  I’ve just had a request to swaddle the rays and a meerkat together.  I’m suspending my disbelief because we are, after…

  • Lovin’ Life 9/5/2019: Just Breathe…..

    Lovin’ Life 9/5/2019: Just Breathe…..

    It’s been just over a month since I got an Apple Watch and I don’t know how I lived before it came into my life.   Initially, the features that got my attention related to activity tracking.  It’s mind-blowing just how much physiological data a mainstream watch can calculate from the information it obtains from your…