Over the last twelve months, I’ve learned a lot about writing for a living, and have purchased my fair share of ‘things’ that I felt I needed or that promised to make me more productive. Some of them I still use today, whereas others were quickly relegated to the bottom drawer. Here’s a little list of some of the lifestyle items that made my cut this year.
When it comes to stress baking, I like to stick to easy recipes, things that aren’t going to add any more stress into my head, looking around my now quite depleted kitchen, I had two lemons on the turn and so turned to Google for some lemon-based recipe inspiration – here’s the result.
There’s a reason why so many of us like to surround ourselves with quotes – they’re extremely powerful. Here are the two quotes that I return to time after time…
So this is it, it looks like we could be in this for the long haul and we need to start getting used to the fact that going to the supermarket has become a much more difficult and dangerous task. So here are my tips to help you get more out of your shops during this lock-down period and who knows you may even change the way you cook and eat when all of this over.
We are slowly but surely transitioning into spring, and finally, our skin will have a break from the cold winter air. My skin, in particular, has had a dreadful winter, culminating in a diagnosis of perioral dermatitis, which required me to take a 12-week course of antibiotics! Thankfully, the antibiotics worked and the dreadful rash that had slowly consumed the…