Overthinking is bad.  Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness. 10 ways to stop overthinking and start living.. Ok, we all get the picture.  Overthinking is the latest action, to be thrown under a bus, as a bad idea.  A nifty buzzword used to lump everyone together and give them generic and impersonal advice, to fix non specific problems or …

The truly fabulous Game of Thrones series, has finally hit my household.  I received the DVD box set for Christmas so I am all over that right now. Up until that point, my husband and I, would watch Netflix and Chill.  I casually mentioned to a friend, that this is what we do.  I’m no prude but I was very …

In 1996 I took my first tentative steps on the career ladder.  Clueless and without direction, I started working in an office.  As an Office Junior in an Estate Agents, I got my first taste, of full time work.  It was a day-release program so every Wednesday, I would attend college.   It was scary and great at the same …

For the first time in over two decades, I went to bed early on New Years Eve.  No Big Ben Bongs or Jools Holland’s Hootenanny – I skipped it all.  I watched the fireworks, the following morning on the news.  I had zero hangover too.  Not a single alcoholic drop had passed my lips all day. New Years Eve I …

In short.  Not that bad… My husband and I put our Christmas Tree up on the 23rd.  Part laziness and part damage control.  Nothing rips through an immaculately decorated lounge, quite like a toddler. Christmas Eve was surprisingly relaxed.  My South African family put together a lovely festive soiree.  There was the odd eye roll moment but all in all, …

This year, my little family will be having a 3 day Christmas.  Gone are those leisurely two weeks off, where the New Year finds you nicely Gin baked, with chocolate round your face.  I have 3 days people!  Fun starts on Christmas Eve and not a moment sooner! For me, Christmas is about the simple things.   Good food, good company and …

On the radio this week, I heard a discussion about Millennials (individuals born from 1980).  According to recent research, 20% of them, had never had a Big Mac.  With all the political and painful news filling my eardrums lately, I do love a good bit of fluff. As happy and jovial as this all was, I was bloody mortified.  20% …

Another birthday is looming.  I’m clinging on to my thirties by my knicker elastic! My earlier birthdays were full of excitement and parties.  Lavish gifts and surprises.  Now I find them rather miserable.  My current inept social life isn’t helping.  My present reflection, is also poking me with a rather large stick.  I’m starting to look as old as I …

In my dating life, I have had numerous relationships.  Vastly different in parts and shockingly similar in others.  Generally I am better in a relationship.  I enjoy having a significant other.  A partner in crime.  A companion in all things.  I want that.  I don’t need that.  I am fiercely independent and don’t like to need anything so I engineer …

Once you embark on pregnancy, you sign an invisible contract.  From this moment on, you will be given advice.  Wanted and necessary are not prerequisites to this situation.  These pearls of ‘wisdom’ will be coming at you, from all angles, like it or not. It’s nice for the most part.  Fellow humans who have walked this intrepid path before you, …