Breakfast needs to be ready quickly in my house. There’s not time to faff about preparing anything. Grab and eat is best, so this summer porridge recipe I found in my current food bible, The Family Cooks, ticks all the boxes. I’ve often intended to prepare a week’s worth of bircher muesli in advance but…
I love my living room. Usually it’s the kitchen that gets the honour of being the heart of any home but for me my living room is where it’s at. Sprawled on the sofa wrapped in Designer’s Guild blanket, or sitting on the rug doing a puzzle with Poppet, its the living room I gravitate to as…
Today I want to share with you six books that hold some deep significance in my life. These are books that are not just great reads, or beautiful to look at, they also represent a part of me, or they enlightened me in some way. For me reading a great book is the ultimate luxury. Losing myself…
What’s your Sunday routine? How do you get ready for the week ahead? I don’t work on Mondays so I don’t have quite the same Sunday as most other people. It frees me up to have totally indulgent, lazy Sunday. Proper self-care if ever I’ve known it. I love working three days a week, it’s so…
It’s day two of Blog Every Day in May. If you’ve signed up with Rosalilium you’ll know that Elizabeth has set a topic for each day. Check out the topic calendar (and sign up to join the challenge too) on her website. Some days I might not follow the subject plan but today the subject…
Following on from my post about the tools of the trade that will help you make a decent cup of coffee at home, here are the seven steps I recommend you take to ensure you never drink bad coffee again. You deserve better.
Did last week’s ‘Bullet journal basics’ post help you start to get control of your to-do lists and life plans? Hopefully you’re on your way to getting all those tasks and notes that are whirling around your head or in various notebooks or devices, into one crisp new bullet journal, with a clear system for identifying…
Coffee. It’s a serious business, and a serious daily ritual the world over. According to Business Insider after crude oil coffee is THE most sought after commodity, and worldwide we drink over 500 million cups every year. That’s a huge amount of caffeine hitting our bloodstreams day after day.
Have you discovered bullet journaling yet? If you’re constantly juggling numerous lists, tasks and competing priorities – home, work, children, projects – and never feel like you’re on top of it all then you could benefit from giving the bullet journal system a whirl.
I’ve already lost count of the number of blog posts I’ve seen with similar heading to this over the last few days. Resolutions are such a cliche, but make them we do. There’s clearly something about a fresh, clean, new year that makes us also want to shake off the old and bring in the new….