Cake in a mug, you’re worth it!

No, I’m not kidding. The amazing Amanda over at Real Mums has created a recipe e-book for making a chocolate cake in a mug as the quickest, easiest and most indulgent way to spoil yourself.
Most recipes you just need a good sized mug, a dessert spoon and a microwave (& of course the ingredients) and are ready [...]

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Eulogy to Bil – Benefit of persistence

Off our family room are sliding glass doors leading to the patio and where the dog kennel lives. When they weren’t chasing each other around the yard, the puppies were at the door. Ted has dodgy hips so doesn’t really jump but Bil would incessantly launch herself with quite a lot of force, at the [...]

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Eulogy to Bil – Be an opportunist

 
Until last Sunday we had two Jack Russell pups called Bil and Ted and yes they had excellent adventures. Unfortunately Bil had one too many adventures and died when she was going under the fence.  It appears that she got a fright from a big dog on the other side of the fence when half [...]

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Cathartic colourbond moment

Have you seen the colourbond ad where the guys are caught embarrassed because they’ve been distracted admiring their colourbond roof. Earlier this week, my husband had a moment similar except, rather than our colourbond roof it was a tidy garage. He wasn’t caught embarrassed but did find himself pausing before leaving on his motor bike, [...]

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Environmental growth

This plant was passed to me by a colleague when the decree came down that no more “private” plants were allowed in the office. He was about to move house again so bequeathed it to me. I gratefully received it and placed in on top of my television cabinet. However, being located on top of the TV cabinet meant it struggled. Perhaps too [...]

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What’s it all about Alphie?

This afternoon I heard of another friend coping with someone close to her diagnosed with cancer. That is now five friends struggling with the consequences of this insidious disease.
As I ponder and pray for my friends and their families, the photo of the dog expresses how I’m feeling, as I share just a little of [...]

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All or nothing

One of my strengths and weaknesses is being “all or nothing” in most things I undertake. It does mean that when I take something on, I’m not half-hearted about it. However, it can also hold me back as you could imagine, if in a particular instance I don’t have the time or the opportunity to “do it all”, [...]

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Unexpected Rewards

There is a great post over at Pigs will Fly highlighting the benefits of corporate volunteering by staff from big banks. It is true that there are often more rewards than we realise when we help others, particularly if we have the opportunity to use our skills to do it.
What situations have you found rewards where [...]

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When do you give up?

Zoe from InnerCompass has highlighted a great video about keeping on going till you’ve got nothing left. It is a great reminder that we can sometimes give up on a project too early when if we’d stuck it out, the breakthrough was just ahead. This can be the case in a community organisation or in [...]

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Accountability in business

Are you accountable to anyone in your business day? If you work for yourself, on your own, chances are you are accountable to only you. Don’t know about you, but that arrangement can become a bit dodgy as I can justify all sorts of things. Recently, whilst attending a workshop with Zoe Routh from Inner [...]

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