The New Year is well on its way and yet my first blog of the year is still sitting here waiting for me to do something. I have fiddled with a few things but mostly I have struggled to start and finish. Christmas 2022 was one of the saddest Christmases I have had in many […]
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Christmas presents, 2023 and the gift of listening
Here we are once again on the verge of a new year. I for one, am very happy to say goodbye to the old and begin the new. This isn’t about making changes or leaving the unpleasant things behind. It is about having learnt an incredible amount and now finding ways to make use of […]
Continue readingLet it go, choices and happiness highlights
I have always said I love blogging. There is a freedom in being able to go from topic to topic and allow inspiration to feed the flow of words. At times I wonder if I might be a more successful blogger if I stuck to a particular theme, but my mind is quick to reject […]
Continue readingSeasons Greetings with a dash of Thoreau
The best gifts cost nothing but a little of our hearts.
Continue readingBest Wishes to all
Wishing you a lovely day wherever you are and whoever you are. Barbara Strickland 2018
Continue readingResolutions or just plain common sense
With the advent of the festive season, and the arrival of yet another new year the word happy is banded about often. In a recent read I discovered that one of the top Google searches was the following statement – how to be happy. My immediate thought was that I wasn’t alone in pondering this […]
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