Reading Time: 3 minutesI just loathe the term Happy Holidays. I’d rather acknowledge the actual holiday specifically. Whether you’ve already celebrated Divali, just completed Hanukkah, are still recovering from Saturnalia revivals or about to enjoy Yalda tonight or are looking forward to Christmas or Kwanzaa – I think we can all agree that our days starting to get […]
4 Unusual Life Lessons from my dog
Reading Time: 4 minutesHappily, I’ve had many awesome teachers in my life. Some of them weren’t human.My cat initially hired me to get her out of a tree when her former staff moved house, leaving her behind. She stayed for another 24 years (that is not a typo). She and my Bichon Frise, Lucy, who’s only been in […]
Scottish Summer Solstice
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis has always been a time when I pause and consider what I want the rest of my year to look like. Since I moved to Scotland I’ve found that the Scottish are very in tune with the whole Solstice vibe. Perhaps it’s just because the longest day is so much noticeable up here. They […]
Paws for Thought
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor those of us stuck at home with non-shedding dogs the most urgent questions are not about Loo rolls but much more urgently … When will the dog groomers re-open? Any of you who know Lucy will know that her hair grows much faster than mine. So I decided to bite the bullet and learn […]
Hair we are
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo what else is there to do on a miserable February day except let your hairdresser talk you into ‘something different’? Something purple, blue and gold? I went in with my own dark blonde that had some very faded coppery highlights in it and came out looking a little bit like an over-age Goth. The […]
New Decade – New Site
Reading Time: 2 minutesWell, it’s finally here – Empty but here! As many of you know the old site – may its memory live on in internet hell (oh those dancing GIFs how we loved them last century) ?♀️ it really needed an upgrade. It was completely unusable on iPads and phones and had frankly become an embarrassment. […]