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Life This Week 31/8/2020: Share Your Snaps
Highlights of the week just gone… Walking under this shady canopy at the park on Saturday morning. The sun’s rising that much earlier these days. It’s lovely having the sky wake up with you. No work lunch of leftovers, eaten el desko is complete without a mini bottle of ketchup close by. In lieu of…
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Lovin’ Life 27/08/2020: Meal Prepped Work Lunches.
Here’s to the unsung hero of my working week. The meal prepped lunch. I make my lunches for the working week on Sunday. Whatever I make covers most days of the week with the remaining days featuring leftovers from dinner or a lucky dip from the freezer. It is a bit of a process on…
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Life This Week 24/08/2020: 5,4,3,2,1….
‘5,4,3,2,1…’ is a mindfulness technique that’s used quite often in the audio-guided runs I do with Rochelle Baxter. The premise is to focus on 5 things you can see then 4 you can touch then 3 that you can hear followed by 2 that you can smell and finally 1 that you can taste. I’ve…
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Lovin’ Life 20/8/2020: Apricot Chicken.
As a long time Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B fan, it was my duty as a run of the mill, sometime TikTok-er (watching not uploading…. definitely not uploading) middle-aged mum to do a bit of Googling around WAP, the song the duo recently released. Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Cardi, I’m…
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Life This Week 17/8/2020: Anticipation.
Life this week has been about the anticipation of what lies ahead. I’m another year older. I know I’m stronger and wiser. I’ve hoped as much with previous birthdays but at 45, you just know. There’s a certainty and confidence in life when you’re decidedly in the mid-forties. I think it comes from having been…
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Lovin’ Life 13/8/2020: Five Things,
Five things that made me smile this week…. Festively packaged strawberries at the fancy food hall in the next suburb. Of course, a tray of strawberries came home with me. This is how the middle-aged treat themselves after a long day at work. With fresh fruit, not the fermented kind one might find at Dan’s.…
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Life This Week 10/8/2020: Why Did I?
Why did I take this photo? It was one of those days that I knew would be mainly sponsored by the words ‘challenging’ and ‘hectic’ with co-sponsorship from the attitude ‘just keep on keeping on’. There was my usual work to be done with the added bonuses of live data updating (don’t ask, I’m sitting…
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Lovin’ Life 6/8/2020: Sunny Days and Sunny Colours.
If you believe it hard enough, it will happen, right? Life’s not exactly great right now for so many of us but somehow, the sun and the warmth it has brought have made me feel that things will get back to normal. I don’t know when and I don’t know how but when I look…
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Life This Week 3/8/2020: Food Lately.
The last week or so in food, through the lens of my iPhone. Spoiler: the theme accidentally ended up being ‘on the junkier side of things’. Your judgement is richly deserved. I finally got my hands on a packet of Reese’s peanut butter chips. I was underwhelmed. Alone, they taste like white chocolate that smells…
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A Sentence (or Two) A Day: July 2020.
It was basically about focusing on the small wins at the exclusion of the not so great stuff this month. Wherever and whenever they could be found. Enforced downtime in the queue at the supermarket, a long weekend in the snow (okay so not technically a ‘small’ win), days at the park. They made the…