Since retiring and having time to forage and grow food, I have felt a stronger connection to the food that we eat. It is no longer a habit to eat because it is a certain [...]

The free energy supplement is nettle seeds! Today I was collecting female seeds from nettles when on my walk. I dry them out in order to use them in bread, porridge, smoothies, and seed bars. [...]

A friend asked me to help her balance her budget last night. She is worried about how she will survive all of these recent price hikes and the threat of more to come. I know [...]

Awe is an emotion that you feel when you are amazed, full of wonder, and feels like you are witnessing something extordinary. It is seen by psychiatrists as being positive for a person's wellbeing. I [...]

Society taught me that life is a  competition, and that I had to strive to be the best. If I wasn't, then I was a failure. I was constantly compared to my peers as a [...]

Fruit and vegetables are a really important part of our nutrition. I hold my hands up that I never used to wash my fruit, and would eat an apple straight from the fruit bowl, or [...]

A few days ago I wrote an introduction to journaling which explained some of the different types of journaling and what you needed to start journaling. In this blog I will talk about some of [...]

I mention in some of my wellbeing blogs that journaling helps me.  People have asked me to do a blog on this topic.  Journaling is a big topic to cover and so I will start [...]

I have noticed that a lot of people around me are full of worry at the moment, and so I thought that I would right a blog to try to help reduce that worry. It [...]

I hope that you all had a lovely Christmas, but now it is over, once again.  That adrenaline rush of getting everything done on time has dissipated. All of that planning, all of that thought, [...]

I try to keep my life as uncomplicated and as simple as I can, but it is not always easy in this modern world.  Even though I live in my own little bubble, sometimes it [...]

I sometimes write content for other frugal bloggers, and one was asking me to write some content for her about living a slow, frugal life.  She was kind of wanting a blue print of how [...]

I have decided that I need to be more like the plants and animals and not fight winter this year.  In the past I have always felt that winter made me lazy, and tried to [...]

I have been told by people that have known me for a long time that I am a different person since I retired.  I really believe that it is because I have found a kind [...]

I hear people tell me that they are too tired, or can not be bothered to cook after a long busy day at work and so that is why they use ready meals or pick [...]

I need to reduce my weight for health reasons as I have not lost some of  the weight that I gained during the pandemic.  It has made me examine more closely what I consume, and [...]

It took me a long time to learn to be gentle with myself when I was feeling down.  I felt like a failure, and guilty. I am writing this today for a friend in the [...]

I tend to spend less time outside in bad weather and in winter.  This is mainly due to the great British weather. Although I have all the correct wet weather gear, I hate getting wet [...]

This is a blog I wrote on another forum a number of years ago about feeling different.  In lots of ways I  feel different to many of the people around me still today.  I am [...]

A lot of people have asked me recently how I changed my life. How I became happy even though I had little. The thing that made all the difference was swapping my victim mindset to [...]

Every year as Autumn approaches I always start to feel down.  The nights draw in, I  start to worry about energy costs, and I don't get out in nature as much as I want to [...]

I noticed that last week the energy companies warned us that there might be outages caused by solar storms.  I have also read about weapons that could be used in a war situations called EMPs [...]

For most of my adult life I had a full on, stressful career, was a single parent, studied, and it felt like my life was travelling at a hundred miles an hour and I hardly [...]

We use a lot of fresh herbs in the summer but our grand daughter asked me why we bother making our own mixed herbs.  She pointed out that they don't cost a lot to buy [...]