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Autumn is my Favourite Season There are two very well known facts about me, one is that Autumn is my favourite season and the second is I love being creative. You do not need to have known me long, or scroll down far on social media, to discover this information. Although I’ve yet to jump […]

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Let’s get your creative garden in bloom Have you seen the signs of spring yet? You should have, the delicate snowdrops and boastful crocuses have been poking their heads out for weeks. Here’s a fun fact about me, did you know that spring is my second favourite season? I find this fascinating as my all

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Are traditions a way to beat the Winter Blues?  It isn’t just the frosty wind that made moan in the bleak midwinter! We do too! We may not have snow falling on top of more snow these days, however this middle stage of winter is grim. Cold, wet, and dark, the shine of Christmas gone,

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Let’s Retreat As Autumn sharply turns into Winter we find it is time to begin our retreat. Those once vividly bright leaves of orange, yellow and red are now merely mulch on the floor. They have been trodden over hundreds of times all whilst their former home settles into its hibernation. Its skeleton morphing into

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Creativity when you’re running low When you are running on low it is hard to do anything. The bed to the sofa was the furthest I would walk in three days. My brain could only compute the basics as all the energy was being piled into getting rid of a tummy bug. I was running

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Embracing Spring After an extended few months of dormancy I am finally about to begin embracing Spring. This year the winter feels to have dragged and dragged with the rain damping the mood of most days. Even me, who has encouraged us all to embrace the process of wintering has struggled recently and I feel

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Forever Queuing There are few places I wander in life that doesn’t involve standing in a queue. Although, I am told that as an English person I could be alone and still form an orderly queue of one! Over Easter the family and I took a short trip to Amsterdam, between the airport and various

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The Joy of Exercise There was a moment of joy in my exercising today. With my hands pressed against the hard, cold stone wall I sank back and took in the view that lay in front of me. Breathless after my run, I took one deep inhale after another, keen to slow myself down. I

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I’ve always found it hard to keep things simple. My computer contains my life and it also reflects my life because just like my computer my brain has too many tabs open! Every single tab relates to an on going project, often left up because I forget the bookmark function exists, and they also double

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Hibernation is fascinating Wintering is a new concept to me, yet its existence is something I’ve been yearning for since I was a young child. With fresh eyes to the world I was fascinated by the concept of hibernation, almost jealous of the animals and life that follows such a pattern. I wanted to be

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