A lifestyle blog
Two months ago I added collagen into my daily routine. At the time I was recovering from carpal tunnel surgery and my focus was firmly on healing but my left hand wasn’t playing ball. A colleague with a medical background asked if I had ever considered taking collagen and whilst I had seen people on social media talking about the benefits for hair and skin I hadnt seen talk of
I was recently sent a product to try that I hadn’t come across before. It’s called Aalgo, a powdered seaweed skincare treatment, and to be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect. But it has turned out to be something quite special. Aalgo is a small, family-run Irish business that has been around for over 25 years. They harvest 100 percent organic seaweed by hand from the clean waters off
Over the past year or so, I’ve noticed a quiet shift. Or maybe it’s not so quiet anymore. It feels like there’s a growing unease — even judgment — around women saying they want to lose weight. Not because they hate their bodies. Not because they’re trying to squeeze into a certain dress size or please anyone else. But because they want to feel better. Stronger. Healthier. I know this,
“It just smells of home to me”. That’s what Jonnie said to me the other day when he got a waft of a perfume I had just sprayed. It was one I had worn for years but hadn’t recently and as we both smelled it we reminisced about how that particular smell does that and how the perfume my mum wears reminds us of a house they lived in for
I am going to start this off by saying I dont have any answers to that question, so if you are expecting me to give you the answer, and how to find the holy grail of missing patches or elusive gels, this isnt the post for you. I can however give you my experience on why it is so hard to get HRT First of all some background. Back in
Who doesn’t love a fresh, new pair of athletic shoes, especially when they look cool? But a word of caution: looking cool is often not enough and finding the perfect pair of shoes can depend on a great deal more than that. This can add a rather confusing layer to the search process in the quest for the perfect shoes, very bewildering very quickly! So how to navigate this process,
I didn’t know they were called “Joy Triggers” until I saw a blog post from Jess at Cupcakes and Cashmere about them that was linked from a newsletter landing in my inbox every morning. But you know what I am talking about, right? Those little moments that put a smile on your face, or a spring in your step, they’re insignificant really and could quite easily pass you by if you
This weekend I will be doing a yoga retreat at home, join me? This time two years ago I was in the south of France attending a four day yoga retreat. Not that I had ever done yoga before but the timing was right and I found myself flying on my own for the first time in decades to spend almost a week with total strangers, all in the
This is the one about my thoughts on alcohol. I thought it might be timely with many people celebrating going booze free for October. First of all I am going to nail my colours to the mast and say that I don’t really buy into the school of thought that thinks giving up booze and shouting about it for a month is a good idea. Though to be fair it
“You’re fat because you eat too much” is a direct quote from an article Michael Buerk has published this week. He went on to say that essentially we should give fat people the facts and then let them die, thereby saving the NHS money. The NHS is buckling under the weight of obese people and that they are reason it’s in the current dire financial state. This type
Want some advice? Just do you If I had to write a top five of phrases to live by “just do you” would certainly be up there. And if I was ever to impart some unsolicited advice “just do you” would be it. I was reminded of this on Twitter yesterday when a chap I have never met but have chatted to online for years sent me this Tweet:
I have been increasingly thinking about turning off the outside world because my phone buzzed at 07.18 this morning. Not for the first time, and as before, not my alarm, I had turned that off at 5am when I had finally given up on sleep because my mind was whirring, but by a text. A text that had been sent with a query that needed to be dealt with fairly urgently.