The snowdrops are showing, a few eager daffodils are dancing, and despite the morning chills, Spring is definitely in the air.

And so begin the social media posts, podcasts and programmes about the need to declutter, spruce up and Spring clean your cupboards and Inbox. Then in magazines – alongside horror headlines yelling for us to get Bikini Ready that make our winter bodies just want to retreat to permanent Jumper-wearing Land) – we get features on how to clean your...

Hooray!! I’ve just turned 50!

I’m most definitely not one of those people who like to let the big numbers pass by (or any numbers for that matter!) with a silent prayer. I’m a ‘celebrate like there’s no tomorrow’ kinda gal.

I know too many people who never made it this far to be complaining, or worrying too much about my over-sun-scorched chest skin looking old (that’s not to say I’m not buying into the anti-ageing marketing bullshit...

It’s been a week of shocks. 

A week of emotions.

A week where I really felt I lived most of its moments.

Some weeks can fly by so fast we just catch a blast of breeze as it speeds by us, and at the end, we look back a little dazed, wondering where we actually conscious for any of it at all?  Weeks like that can disappear from our memories faster than a bar of chocolate in a house full of four females (or is that just in my home?).

Then there are...