When Money Doesnt Grow On Trees

When Money Doesnt Grow On Trees #recession #breakthecycle #wtf #energybills #oilcompanyprofits

Where do people think money comes from? A job? Handouts? Does it ever grow on trees? Well technically I suppose you could argue it did grow on trees when it was still made out of paper but in the UK at least it doesn’t contain paper as such. None the less that’s not the point and not what I am referring to, people just assume you can summon money out of no where, as if this magical fairy just…

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Soaring Cost of living/No Pay Rises

Soaring Cost of living/No Pay Rises - #wtf #ukgovernment #dannykruger #abortion #costofliving

Whilst the tory party sit around languishing in our tax payers money us regular people (middle class included) are now being robbed in broad daylight by supermarkets, energy companies and tax to pay for the monumental mistakes made during corona virus. Tory MPs have been claiming expenses left right and centre using our hard earned money that should be going towards paying our bills and…

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Your New Favourite Wellbeing App

Your New Favourite Wellbeing App - #feedback #wellbeingapp #whatwouldyoulike #fitnessapp #wellbeing #weightloss #watertracker

The wellbeing app market is vast and expensive – whilst there are some apps that will furnish you with a variety of different functions for free there are literally none that do exactly what (at least from my perspective) what we want without it costing the earth in some way. So this is your chance to speak up and request what you want from a wellbeing app – fitness? mindfulness? recipes? habit…

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30 Days To Change Your Life.

30 Days to Change Your Life - #selfcare #wellness #challenge #bethechange #freeprintables

Having just completed one of the most inspiring bootcamp of my life (check out Zeus Fitness on Youtube) it made me think. All these challenges that are meant to get us fit, help us form better habits and improve ourselves are pretty much impossible unless you already have established discipline. These 75 day challenges hard or soft are something you have to keep up for nearly 3 months – great if…

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Food Budgeting - Free Resources

Free 7 Day Food Budget Spreadsheet Download Available Now #foodbudgeting #carnivore #vegetarian #familymeals #7meals4people

Whilst I am arguably a fine one to speak about budgeting and money (not my strongest suit) I am however quite confident at food budgeting and cooking. Something my Dad taught me not long after my parents divorced was to go to the market and buy food for the week ahead to cook when we were at the house in France. A privileged I wish everyone could have but one I know many will never have, it seems…

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Stuck Writing A Scene? - Try This

Stuck Writing A Scene? - Try This #authorchat #amwriting #toptips #help

Whilst many of us hold with the just write anything in the first draft and the rest can be sorted out later I find this a tad difficult. Whilst its not a case of perfectionism its more of a case of understanding how to write it properly. In a recent situation where I was stuck trying to write a murder scene – I did just that I wrote it quickly and tried to move on, well that didnt work – it…

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19 Years

19 years #epilepsy #selfcare #health #life

Whilst taking prescribed medication is not quite like being wrongfully imprisoned it feels somewhat like I have had something taken from me. From a young age when I first developed epilepsy I was put on a drug that essentially turned me into a zombie, I wasnt always the quickest of children but certainly never to the level it made me. I was bullied for being fat, slow & shy (not to mention the…

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Lamotrigine: The Side Effects - High Blood Pressure

Lamotrigine: The Side Effects - High Blood Pressure @NICEComms #healthcare #highbloodpressure #drugreview #epilepsy #news

The NHS website has a whole page dedicated to lamotrigine – its functions and side effects and the things its used to treat. Reading through it there are the usual recommendations of this that and the other but no mention of the mortally high blood pressure rate it can cause. This horrifies me – having just come off the drug to see if my blood pressure would come down and it has consistently over…

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Abortion - Should be Legalised No Contest

Abortion - Should Be Legalised No Contest #prochoice #ourchoice #yourchoice

Whilst many men (who have never had to carry a child from a an unwanted pregnancy) seem to think that the right to choose isnt necessary – aborting their precious sperm is too painful of a thought – there are also women who are opposed to abortion. Some join other pro-life advocates and say that the right to life should always outweigh the right of an individual to equality or to control their…

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The Beauty of Nature

The Beauty of Nature #selfcare #cacti #fensui #anxiety #bethechange

When the news is so full of disaster and negativity it is hard sometimes to be objective and see the silver lining. Positivity can be difficult and frustrating when you find yourself in a hole you never wanted to be in, I find myself looking down thinking how on earth did I manage this? Then I try and remember the good things and that I am here and breathing, I have two legs that function and my…

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Happy Earth Day (Better Late Than Never)

Happy Belated Earth Day - #earthday #themoreyouknow #investinourplanet

Whilst the world is distracted watching the car crash that is Depp vs Heard the rest of us are observing one off the less fatuous of faux holidays we celebrate at every opportunity. Whilst arguably Earth Day should be everyday and there are plenty of people that do – it still seems to be on of those holidays that people get excited about for a day and then the next day they wake up and revert…

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When Sh*t Hits The Fan - Amber Heard

When the sh*t hits the fan - Amber Heard #amberturd #seriously #psychologicalabuse #mepoo

Whilst many of us knew that Amber Heard’s downfall coming like a freight train in the distance, many of us believed she was truly the victim – how could Johnny Depp do such a thing to an innocent young girl…what they entirely forgot that he made us aware of her appalling behaviour towards him including the defecating in the bed incident which she stupidly tried to blame on the dog when the…

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Want Asylum in the UK? Try Rwanda

Looking to seek asylum in the UK? Try Rwanda #ukgovernment #abominable #wtf

It sickened me to my stomach reading the headlines – our own UK government have hatched an abominable plan to address the refugee crisis. Apparently they are being flown at the expense of the British tax payers to Rwanda for processing and if they are find to be eligible they get to stay there. Lets remind ourselves of Rwandas history… Whilst the UK government have said: Whilst the facts in the…

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Conversion Therapy? Really?

Conversion Therapy? Really? #LGBTQ+rights #selflove #wtf #freedomofexpression

Reading that the government are going to ban controversial ‘gay conversion therapy’ brought a bitter taste to my mouth – the fact we had to even fight it in the first place shows some of us are still trapped in a world from 50 years ago. It truly disgusts me, whilst it is something I have heard of still happening in the US – I naively assumed that we were more progressive than that in the UK…

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Judged By The Colour of Your Eggs

Judged By The Colour of Your Eggs

Whether we realise it or not in the UK we have been conditioned to think that changes chicken eggs are brown, ducks are blue and geese are white. Which means that the only way most chicken farmers can sell their eggs that aren’t brown they are often upgraded to specialty free range hens. I say all this as we had a tray of mostly blue chicken eggs delivered from the farm shop on Wednesday last…

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Forever Young

Forever Young - new post up #annetaylor #culturalappropriation #amwriting #wethefew #thoughts

Anne Taylor dubbed the “Jane Austin of America” although I assume they mean a modern day version seeing as she is still alive and well some have also classified her as a ‘southern author’ who has written 23 books and at the age of 80 claims she still doesn’t know what her career will be “I’m only 80” she remarks. The comment made me laugh and reassured me at the same time, at 37 I’m only just on…

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World Book Day

One of my favourite days of the year since I was a child is World Book Day, and indeed we have been educating my niece and nephew and obviously teaching them to read. Often schools do a dressing up day to celebrate and the students dress up as their favourite character, so this morning my sister excitedly prepped my niece to wear her Malala outfit complete with hijab. To her horror as they…

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