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This quote by Pharrell Williams spoke to me, particularly this week. "Life is a carousel.  It goes up and down.  All you gotta do is just stay on." In a week experiencing here wild storms and winds, power cuts, hail and snow PLUS a variety of...

You may be finding this in your world too at the moment?  So many things are shifting and changing ALL at the same time. Friends are moving house and leaving partners My sister's moving countries at Easter My niece is moving to a new home next...

You know when you've arranged to do something and then, at the last minute you often question if you still want to do it? I had that exact feeling last Saturday morning.   Having met up with a big group of school friends at a reunion in...

You know when you've just achieved something significant?   You've completed a project or finalised something which has been taking up loads of time and TONS of your energy, that kind of thing?  Do you notice how you can crumple up like a old...

Talk about being on a rollercoaster recently!   As Jeffrey, our precious Beddlington Whippet who had a 'broken heart' (and has had 2 life-saving ops) was recovering, it was discovered he had a blood clot in his leg. After heart surgery this is not uncommon but...

"Kay, surely you'll be cancelling everything next week?" was the advice a friend gave me. Why?   With a flurry of activity in our world with our hound Jeffrey going in for emergency heart surgery and a number of events I said "Yes" to recently - it would have...

The phone rang about an hour ago and I caught my breath.  It was the Specialist Vet Heart Surgeon calling. One of our hounds (Jeffrey, the smallest and naughtiest) has a heart condition. Without surgery we've been told he has only about 10 to 12 months to live....

First things first.   Wishing you a Healthy & Happy 2022 full of the things AND the people you want and love the most. What a thought that is! As someone who long ago stopped making New Year Resolutions as I found them uninspiring and a bit like...

When Jane asked me "How do I stop people's negativity from bringing me down?" she meant it with the best intention. Jane is in a senior position where she is often the brunt of people's frustration or indignation and, as such, she's finding she takes on too much of...

When you ask someone a question beginning with 'Why' you need to know something which many people just don't. ‘Why’ is such a small and yet powerful word to notice, to understand and to be aware of as you use it.  Really, why? Well, it does two things very...