If you aren’t practising ‘self-care’ or learning to love yourself then are you even a millennial? In our stifling, yet animated modern day society it is not surprising that there is a fresh prominence surrounding the notions of ‘self-care’ and ‘self-love’. Nonetheless, I have always had a problematic relationship with these concepts. I have spent [...]
Category: Lifestyle
My Favourite Things: Volume Two
It’s September on Tuesday and I have one thing to say. MEH! The whole of August has felt like a perpetual Monday morning for me, and I’m glad to see the back of it. Everything has been a chore: from deciding what to wear, what to watch, what to cook for dinner; getting up for [...]
I Baked a Raspberry and White Chocolate Drizzle Cake
Happy Sunday! I’m not going to lie, I have felt pretty gloomy lately. It’s been hard watching the lockdown easing unfolding around me and knowing that none of it has really applied to my situation. Don’t get me wrong, it has been a wonderful treat being able to finally see my loved ones even from [...]
My Mid-Year Catch Up
Beautiful Spring flowers that had started blooming in Calderstones Park, from my last walk in there before 'isolation'. Happy 1st July! I can not believe that June is already over and we only have another six months left of 2020. Where has this year gone? The months seems to be flying by faster and faster [...]
My Favourite Things: Volume One
I realised that I called my blog ‘My Favourite Things’, but I have also since realised that I rarely talk about my favourite things: my favourite things to read, watch, listen to or even cook, wear and do. Introducing, my new, regular feature where I actually discuss the things that I have been loving from [...]
I tried Pasta Evangelists
Who else’s pre-isolation hobbies largely revolve around eating out, because mine certainly do. I keep finding myself desperately craving my favourite Italian restaurant, because who doesn’t love a gigantic bowl of comforting, carby goodness? Although I promptly set to work attempting to recreate some of my favourite pasta dishes early on into the lockdown, I [...]
The Anxiety Solution: A Review
If you constantly feel worried, insecure, or self critical; if you have ever over-thought every minute detail of every conversation you have ever had, or struggle to make simple decisions like choosing what film to watch on date night or what to eat for dinner for fear of not being able to please someone; if [...]
I Baked an Angel Cake!
Baking on a Friday afternoon has become a little bit of a tradition for me of late during isolation. It is something that I have come to look forward to because it fills me with childish excitement watching and waiting for the cake to rise and bake in the oven and taking great comfort from [...]
How I am coping during Isolation – It’s okay not to be okay
*Disclaimer* I don't look like this currently - make up has been absent from my life throughout isolation, because who is going to see me?! Before Boris Johnson put the UK onto Coronavirus ‘lockdown’/isolation, I had an incredibly distorted image of what it would be like. I had imagined myself contentedly sipping tea and happily [...]
Happy New Year!
I am currently in the depths of limbo that exists between Christmas and New Year, where I have eaten too much and not had enough fresh air; trying to make preparations for my newly organised life from the comfort of my sofa. It’s New Years Eve today and I am a little confused as to [...]
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