The washing-machine-repair-man just left.  Last week, the machine was making a rather nasty noise when spinning… and the next day after a load finished, there was a ‘smell’ in the laundry.  When I opened the machine, I found a pair of knickers firmly melted to a t-shirt.  And a big burn mark in the neck [...]

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After a successful launch of SOXS last week, I sat down to think about my own personal Christmas (and yes, I’ve invited the whole family HERE this year… that’s a story for another post.)  And checking my diary, I realised that even though the kids only went back to school for term 4 last week, [...]

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Like a long awaited birth, Chris and I are very proud to announce the launch of SOXS – Save Our Christmas Sanity: How to Make Your Christmas Easy! Whilst the labour was long, the actual birthing process ran smoothly, with no pain killers necessary (well, apart from the odd glass of something after a long [...]

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I confessed on Chris’ Take A Bite blog yesterday – I have an addiction. You know how some women buy shoes.  And some spend their spare cash on makeup or expensive perfume.  Others like to buy designer clothes.  And others invest in nipping, tucking, primping, and stopping gravity from doing it’s stuff. Well, my body [...]

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Doesn’t that sound wonderful?  "Joyful, jubilant learning"?? In reality, it probably doesnt describe our days at school, and maybe not even those days at university… Whilst I liked school, and never minded the learning, I cannot say I would have ever described it as joyful or jubilant.  And I am sure if I were to [...]

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Today I felt the great need to commence the clear out and clean up of my home office.  What a shambles it had become while I was ill!  Finding my laptop was an adventure in archaeology amoungst piles of paper, file folders, books, CD cases, assorted stationery items, etc etc…  So I armed myself with [...]

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Sometimes, it can seem as if there is just TOO MUCH to do.  That there are simply not enough hours in the day, and that you need to let anything that isnt super urgent and important slide until you have time to do it.  And even though you let those ‘less urgent’ things go, you [...]

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On the radio in the car this morning, I heard a psychic tell a listener that she was a very spiritual person, but that she thought too much and tried to reason everything with logic.  Her theory was that spirituality and logic dont mix, and that for success in life this woman needed to stop [...]

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It was a really, really busy week this week.  Monday being the Queen’s Birthday holiday didnt help any either, although I suppose my house did start the week relatively tidier than normal, as I did a lot of catch-up stuff on Monday. But then the rest of the week was short, and packed with meetings [...]

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Yes, it’s me ‘fessing up. It’s a confession and an apology. If you’re a regular reader of The Clearing Space blog, you’ll know I’ve been a bit (OK, OK, a LOT) light on the writing and posting lately.  And I apologise if you’ve been disappointed. I have been remiss in writing here since I returned [...]

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