Category Archives: General

The Lady of Many Faces: Laughing in the face of cancer

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you a true inspiration.  Last year my lovely friend Shiv was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.  You don’t expect to hear a diagnosis of cancer in your 30s, but Shiv quite literally laughed … Continue reading →

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Interview with Heather Huffman – Roses in Ecuador

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

I’m quite excited to have Heather Huffman visiting Jay’s Insight today as part of her blog tour to promote her latest novel Roses in Ecuador (sponsored link) from which I posted a teaser excerpt and reviewed. What was the inspiration … Continue reading →

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Roses in Ecuador by Heather Huffman – A Teaser Excerpt

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

I recently reviewed Heather Huffman’s latest release, Roses in Ecuador (sponsored link) and promised a teaser excerpt.  Enjoy!  Stop by on Feb 14th for my interview with Heather. ******************************************************************************** Roses in Ecuador – Heather Huffman (Chapter Eight-Nine – pages 48-53) … Continue reading →

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Life Circle – Me Time

Posted on March 25, 2012 by

Now whose eyes wouldn’t light up at being set a challenge of setting aside some time for themselves? Mine, I must admit, were caught halfway between lighting up and raising a sceptical eyebrow.  You see, since my dog suffered a … Continue reading →

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February Sunshine

Posted on February 25, 2012 by

To brighten my February Michelle at Old Fashioned Mummy has tagged me in the “Sunshine Award”. As someone who is perpetually freezing cold, I’d certainly like some sunshine:  Roll on summer! Favourite colour:  Purple.  I do have quite a fondness … Continue reading →

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Listography – Top 5 things that make me happy

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

Having had rather a blue day yesterday, I thought this week’s Listography would be just the thing to bring a smile back to my face (along with asking facebook friends to pelt me with crap jokes – the responses helped … Continue reading →

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Life Circle – Time Management

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

I was quite looking forward to the Time Management task: I’m an ardent list geek fan & I invariably find myself frustrated at failing to cross as many tasks from my to-do list as I had hoped. Kate suggests that … Continue reading →

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Life Circle – Actions reviewed

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

The new Life Cycle task is to report back on how I did with the tasks I set myself in the Taking Action task. On the whole I’m fairly happy with my progress.  I’m still recording all my income & … Continue reading →

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Life Circle – Life Plan

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

For this Life Circle task Kate has asked us to describe our ideal life in 5 years and in one year, thus helping pin point which areas need to change in order to get on track for “living the dream” … Continue reading →

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Life Circle – Taking Action

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Following on from the recent Wheel of Life task of Life Circle, Kate has set a task of deciding action points using the TGROW model.  Here goes! Topic Finances.  It wasn’t quite the lowest score on my Wheel of Life, … Continue reading →

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