Friendships are probably one of the most important relationships in our adult life, I always think of the episode in Sex and the City where Carrie and the girls are taking a trip to Atlantic City on a coach tour with women all of a certain age and she asks where are all the men? To which Miranda replies ‘dead!’…
Dear Donna, I could use some advice on a matter I’ve been going through with a boy. It’s terribly frustrating because I just don’t know what to do. I met a boy two weeks ago. Well, I say ‘met’…I’ve known who he is for years, but we’d never actually spoken to each other or mixed in the same groups. Anyway,…
And so it began. What you may ask? Writing. Writing began. It all started when I decided to open a public Instagram account and share my passion for art, history, culture and travelling with fellow like-minded people and why not just say it, the world! I actually did not know that I had it in me. I really was worried…
Hi Housemates, Hope you’re well and have all had a good week? So, it’s Week 6 of the blog, and I think it’s time for a little change up… My “Spend” category so far has been determined by a product over £100, but I’ve been finding SO many purchases in that £10-£100 market that I’m going to change my “Spend”…
I can't pinpoint when exactly I decided to look into 'resilience' as a concept. What I do know is that once I did, I would spend hours Googling it, looking up books, articles, academic papers and anything else I could find about it. Resilience is "the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties", according to the Oxford Dictionary. My interest in…
Where should this story begin, of my lockdown fairy-tale? I could spend hours rehashing the mishaps, mistakes, weird but not wonderful dating world that I had endured prior to March 2020. However, we all have our own anecdotes, some worse than others.. some funny, others just downright disheartening. They say you have to kiss a lot of frogs to meet…
I had always thought I wanted children at some point. Sure, parents harp on at how stressful it is, but my thought was always "if it was really that difficult, there wouldn't be so many multi-children families". My blase attitude was given quite the rude awakening this week... My sister gave birth to her second child just before lockdown and…
Dear Donna, Love love love the podcast. It’s really motivated me in my blogging so thank you to you and Melanie and all my fellow House 21 bloggers for that. My problem is a to with my friend. She likes to take, but there’s not much giving. I feel very much like our friendship is a one-way street. My family…
I've had an awful lot of thoughts and feelings throughout the month of July; It's been an emotionally tough few weeks filled with conflicting thoughts across a few different subject matters, all have which led me to become MIA from my platforms... And today I'm going to divulge why. July has been a month of returning back to normality. The…
Stepping outside of my comfort zone isn’t something I do often. I’m not the bravest of people so the thought of doing something that would make me feel uncomfortable doesn’t always appeal to me. However, during the pandemic and lockdown, I’ve done more things than ever to step outside the safe confines of my comfort zone. I struggle with low…