At the moment, there are youngsters having to make huge life changing decisions now that their GCSE/A Level results have been given to them. I wish them every success and I hope they get to go down the path that they want to travel down. When my GCSE results came out, I didn't do overly brilliant, I got just about…
Loneliness Is something that only happens to older people, right? That really is a myth that stops a lot of people from admitting they are lonely and lost in life. I am not ashamed to admit that I have been experiencing feeling very lonely the last few months. I have spent a lot of time not really knowing what to…
When results day rolls around each year, I can’t help but think back to how I felt at that moment… the fear, the expectation, the promise of a whole new world ahead of you, all riding on the letters held within that brown envelope (I know I’m showing my age now - letters rather than numbers!) Everyone tells you “success…
I’m not going to lie, the thought of turning 30 horrified me. I didn’t feel like I had achieved anything in the years up until then and I honestly just felt utter dread at the thought of blowing out those candles. Do you know what? I couldn’t have been more wrong. This past year has been one of the most…
Let’s talk money! It’s not a subject I feel comfortable discussing which, if speaking to any of my Asian or mainland European friends is anything to go by, is a typical British aversion to a dialogue on those pennies. However, in a number of the House 21 online workshops to date, the subject of money has come up, and rightly…
How many times over the last few months have you said or heard something like "without technology to keep us connected, lockdown would have been even worse"? It's difficult to imagine navigating lockdown without technology to keep us connected to family, friends and colleagues. Over the past few turbulent months, technology has not only been a means of communication, but…
22 weeks 154 days 3696 hours 221,760 minutes … Shielding is OVER! For now anyway. I have finally reached the end of my shielding sentence without going completely insane. Well, mostly. It's been a proper rollercoaster (scuse the cliché) of emotions, highs lows, lots of watching The Repair Shop on repeat (new addiction) and wearing pillows for a lockdown…
This started off as a bit of a brain dump into how I was feeling, but as I was writing I realised there must be so many of us mums and dads going through these exact feelings right now. Today is my first born's last day of nursery. Not a big deal to many people whose children have grown…
This post is particularly relevant to me because it’s something I’m often in complete conflict over. One day my Instagram will be the positive motivational place I want it to be, other days it’ll be the standard day to day grind. It will even be a little woeful at times in my bid to keep it real and honest, because…
The Eat Out to Help Out scheme started on Monday 3rd August, with restaurants, cafes and coffee shops able to offer great discounts on food and drink. The scheme has been put into place by the UK Government in a bid to help out the hospitality trade, which suffered hugely through the pandemic lockdown. Running every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday…