It isn’t just about getting fit or losing weight! When we exercise regularly, we know we feel better. That good feeling is not just because we’re feeling virtuous that we’ve actually got up off our behind… I know I feel better about myself, I feel more energetic (and I feel virtuous:-) when I take the [...]

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A quick Saturday update: I just want to keep you in the loop. I can get so immersed in the changes happening around me (I am the queen of reinvention, after all) that I forget I haven’t told you what is happening, and it is not my intention to leave you wondering what the heck [...]

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Today begin looking at everything in your life in a new way. “Do I really love it? Do I really need it? Would I be better off without it?” Instead of buying and spending, save that money. Let your money work for you for a change. This is the beginning of laying new groundwork for [...]

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What is so special about today? Today is the first day of the rest of your life… Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Marie Beyon Ray As another week begins [...]

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Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and making a new ending. Maria Robinson Today, all the kids are (finally) back at school after winter holidays. They are regretting the passing of their free time and sleep-ins. I am enjoying the quiet and the ability to play my [...]

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Who said it was going to be a simple kitchen and laundry renovation? Then the floors. Then paint. Finito! Hmmm… I really WAS delusional, wasn’t I? The tiled floor in the laundry has to come up. It’s not secured to the concrete slab, so up it comes. Only, that leads into the wc and the [...]

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The ref has blown the whistle – it’s half time! Time for a break, be it winter (cold and blustery, here and now) or summer (my friends in the northern hemisphere) before we go back for the second half of the game/year. Time to huddle and work out the game plan for second-half. In the [...]

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The effervescent, outrageously extrovert Chris Owen (dear friend) of Pink Apple fame has taken her newest offering out of the oven. It’s steaming hot, crisp, tart but sweet… the perfect Apple Tart! Why not pop on over and let Chris know what you think of her new, personal blog? I’ll have mine with custard please…

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This Saturday marks a very auspicious date. The seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year this century. 07-07-07. Apparently on that day, the NEW 7 wonders of the world will be announced. Live Earth concerts will span the globe. And, even more exciting for us all, the team of brilliant collaborators and [...]

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein I have a sticker blue-tacked above my computer at my desk. It is purple with silver writing and scattered with silver stars. It reads: magic happens [...]

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