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Welcome to this month’s book readalong. As you know, I absolutely love the book readalong, it’s always one of my favourite #BringBackPaper activities.  If you’ve yet to join in with one of these readalongs, let me tell you a little more about it and tempt you to join us. The… Read more »

Summer is just around the corner now and spring can give us a few sunny days sometimes. Hopefully. I’m looking at you spring. With the warmer weather, the chances are that we might soon be getting our feet out after the colder months, and maybe they need a little time… Read more »

What makes a good pen pal? This one is going to be the easiest and shortest blog post I’ve ever written. All of those things that spring to mind when you ask yourself, what makes a good friend? Yes, it’s all of those things. That’s it.  A pen pal is… Read more »

Are you like this? Once you organise one thing in your home, you feel you need to organise the rest? I can go for weeks, months, without really thinking about re-organising anything, moving furniture around, redecorating, decluttering, changing home décor and so on, and then bang, one thing changes and… Read more »

When was the last time you tried something different? When was the last time you did something completely indulgent, something just for you? When was the last time you made a new friend? If you’re struggling to remember when you last did any of these things, take this as your… Read more »

Today my son goes into primary school for his final term.  Just a few more weeks left, and then he’ll be a secondary school child like his sister.  How can this be? He still seems so young to me, and yet when I stop and really look at him, I… Read more »

Welcome to the Pen Pal Sign Up of April 2024. It’s been a while! We’ve not had one of these for some time so I am bracing myself as I know this is going to be a popular #bringbackpaper activity. This one is always a labour of love. It’s something… Read more »

Self-care takes so many forms and it’s a very personal thing to everyone. We all have those things that lift us up, the things that we like to do, the things that help to make us feel like our best selves again.  I consider myself to be an unapologetic self-care… Read more »

What is happy mail?  This is a question I’m often asked, and it always causes me to pause because it’s so clear to me, but I can see that it’s not a term that everyone will have heard of or use. Similarly, happy mail is often referred to as snail… Read more »

Have you heard of this term, ‘habit stacking’? It’s simply a way to form a new habit by connecting it to an existing one. It can be hard to get into a new habit, to make it stick and to remember to do it regularly. But attaching it to something… Read more »