• Wheel of Life

    Published On: July 28, 2023Categories: Wellbeing

    What is the Wheel of Life? About 4 times a year,  I review my life,  though I have let it slip recently and have not done it since the New Year.  I also look at [...]

  • 9 cheap ways I add extra nutrition to my meals when on a tight budget

    Published On: July 23, 2023Categories: Healthy food, Nutrition, Saving money on food, Wellbeing

    I have become a lot more conscious about my nutrition and what I eat as I have got older. I want to stay healthy as I age, and am aware that the NHS is not [...]

  • Free cures from your garden for your hangover

    Published On: July 3, 2023Categories: Growing Food, Wellbeing

    Most of us have woken up at some time or another with that feeling of regret after a night celebrating. You feel dizzy, have a raging headache and your mouth feels like the bottom of [...]

  • Elderflower – a medicinal treasure chest.

    Published On: June 16, 2023Categories: Foraging For Food, Wellbeing

    I don’t pretend to be a doctor, or even a herbalist.  I am definitely not a professional forager, but I do like to study and utilise the plants and trees that are around us to [...]

  • Are you ready if SHTF?

    Published On: June 12, 2023Categories: Foraging For Food, Living Simply, Wellbeing

    This week I went on a retreat that taught some skills of self-reliance.  It included basket weaving, making toiletries from nature, archery and making fire by friction.  These skills might seem a strange thing for [...]

  • 15 foods that I eat to help my bad knees

    Published On: June 3, 2023Categories: Nutrition, Wellbeing

    In 2008 I was told that I needed to have knee replacements.  I was in a lot of pain and often walked with a stick.  I don’t do hospitals or anything medical if I can [...]

  • Contemplating old age and death

    Published On: May 22, 2023Categories: Wellbeing

    I am grateful to have reached this age.  I didn’t think I would, and I nearly didn’t due to stress and other factors in my life.  I know a lot of people do not reach [...]

  • How debt impacts on your health

    Published On: April 30, 2023Categories: Saving Money, Wellbeing

    After being ill in 2009 the first thing that I wanted to do was to get rid of all my debt.  I had not realised how much it had impacted on my health and caused [...]

  • Forest Bathing

    Published On: April 17, 2023Categories: Wellbeing

    WHAT IS FOREST BATHING? Any one that has followed me for a while knows that forest bathing keeps me sane.  It does not mean I am taking a bath there, but that I am soaking [...]

  • 8 Natural ways to clean the air in your home

    Published On: March 16, 2023Categories: Wellbeing

    Why is it important to have clean air in the home? We have just been away for a break to the coast and when we opened the door to our home the air smelt fresh [...]

  • Ways to eat a nutritious diet on a budget

    Published On: February 17, 2023Categories: Nutrition, Wellbeing

    As I have aged, I have become even more aware of the nutrition in my food.  Being well is being frugal and brings more joy in to my life.  Providing our food is not just [...]

  • Home made cough sweets

    Published On: February 15, 2023Categories: Recipes, Wellbeing

    I have got a dry, tickly cough a the moment which is driving me mad.  I am trying to buy as little from the shops as I can at the moment as I have a [...]

  • 20 Frugal ways to love yourself on Valentine’s Day

    Published On: February 13, 2023Categories: Wellbeing

    As a single parent I used to hate Valentine's Day with the shops being full of hearts and flowers. It made me feel extra lonely having no one to care and love me.  However, in [...]

  • Reaching Self Actualisation

    Published On: February 6, 2023Categories: Finding Happiness, Wellbeing

    I always do my thinking when I am cooking and yesterday I was thinking about how what we see as necessities has changed. I can remember the days when if you had a television or [...]

  • Simplify your life with routine

    Published On: January 28, 2023Categories: Wellbeing

    I am a freedom loving person and don't like to get bogged down with routines. However, when I first retired my life was in chaos as my old work routines had disappeared, and I found [...]

  • 7 Ways gardening can improve your health

    Published On: January 28, 2023Categories: Growing Food, Wellbeing

    Gardening is not just a hobby, a way of making your house look pretty, or a tool to save money on food. According to the British medical journal gardening prolongs life of over 60s by [...]

  • How honey can save you money

    Published On: January 28, 2023Categories: Healthy food, Nutrition, Wellbeing

    I wrote this post about honey a year ago but have been asked for it again, and so I apologise to those of you who have been following me for a while. I have improved [...]

  • 12 Ways of coping with overwhelm

    Published On: January 4, 2023Categories: Wellbeing

    We all feel overwhelmed at times.  It is that feeling of constantly being busy but not seeming to get anywhere.  I felt that at the end of 2022. Sometimes a simple task could feel so [...]

  • 16 ways to motivate yourself to reach your goals.

    Published On: January 3, 2023Categories: Uncategorized, Wellbeing

    I must admit that I find it harder to motivate myself nowadays. My motivation in the past was always to get a better life for my children or I had to be forced to make [...]

  • SMART Goal Setting

    Published On: December 30, 2022Categories: Saving Money, Wellbeing

    I said a few days ago that I would write a bit about setting goals.  When thinking about setting a goal I think about which area of my life I want to change and how [...]

  • Making a Vision Board

    Published On: December 29, 2022Categories: Finding Happiness, Wellbeing

    In 2009 I changed my life through life coaching. I trained to be a coach myself because I had lost who I was, was broken and I wanted to put the pieces back together in [...]

  • Ways that creativity is good for you

    Published On: December 20, 2022Categories: Crafts, Wellbeing

    I love being creative. and always have. Many studies show that being creative is good for us. I try to be creative every day as it helps my mental health. It might be baking, taking [...]

  • The Importance of Water

    Published On: November 29, 2022Categories: Wellbeing

    THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER I am trying to re-introduce good habits back into my life at the moment.  An important habit I had let slip was drinking enough water, as I mentioned this morning. Last [...]

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    Birthday Blues

    Published On: November 24, 2022Categories: Wellbeing

    It was my birthday the other day and I was not in a good place and so I put a post into my Facebook group about having the birthday blues.   It resonated with some many [...]