Say what? How can achieving your goals be perilous? It’s what we keep being told to do in life, isn’t it? I remember listening to Tony Robbins a few years back and he was telling the story of this guy who had come to him because he couldn’t break a vicious cycle of making a […]
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Friendship
Happy International Friendship Day “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” – Tennessee Williams Many profound things have been written about friendship, but the one I have come back to time and again in my own life is that there are friends for a […]
Working It Out #1
I hardly remember a time when I wasn’t trying to change my body. Over the years I have tried many times to change it to make it smaller, to take up less space. After the car accident I wanted to change it to make it work again. I wanted to be able to walk properly, […]
Ration Challenge
No, it’s not me. I don’t think I’d manage a week without tea… or maybe the rest of the world wouldn’t manage me without my tea! My lovely inspiring friend Caroline is doing the challenge, so when we had lunch together earlier, I had a bag of Tilda rice and she had her concoction of […]
Cream Tea at the Bedford, its historic birthplace
I wish I could say I had taken a proper photo of the cream tea, but to be honest I was far too busy chatting and eating it for that! This lovely shot was taken by Portia Crossley for the Bedford’s website and I have shamelessly borrowed it as the feature pic here so that […]
Bank of England update
I am a member of the Women in Business network run by Alexis Bowater and Clare Baker. Each month, they invite interesting speakers to their Plymouth and Exeter gatherings. In recent months they have put me in the room with activists from the plastic free movement in Exeter, the head of the new business school […]
Mpower National Business Awards
How have you spent your weekend? Did you hang out with any totally awesome women? I did 😀 I actually got to hang out with loads of awesome women, because I was lucky enough to spend last night at the Mpower National Business Awards in Birmingham with my dear friend Nina Farr, who was a finalist. […]
Unexpected Gifts
I am a very, very lucky girl. I know this. I have some very thoughtful and generous friends. On Friday, when we gathered for our team meeting, I was delighted to be presented with a copy of Karen’s book. She had mentioned previously that she had self published a book of her watercolours and of […]