My Sentimental Heart

Another week living in lockdown! How are we all doing? I'm holding up ok so far, trying to keep busy and not pay too much attention to *looks around* everything else- if only as a bit of a self-preservation tool if nothing else. The snow at the weekend was a wonderful temporary diversion too, w…

Without question, the start of 2021 has been tough. I don't think that it's necessarily been toucher than any of us could imagine, because most of us have will have seen this situation on the horizon a long time before Christmas, and indeed a long time before even the second lockdown. If I&…

One week closer to the end of the month..! As awful as it is to be wishing time away, January always seems to go on and one for an absolute eternity, doesn't it? This year I'm definitely noticing the drag a lot more than I would otherwise too, especially as I sit here and try to find ways t…

With the start of the new year arrives the inevitable saturation of messaging about getting fitter and healthier, as well as a seemingly never ending stream of diet tips and advice. After falling into a 'healthy eating' trap as a teenager which saw me downing nettle tea for breakfast (spoil…

It's been a little while since I posted about anything beauty based on these pages, and to be honest I'm sure that's because it's been an absolute eternity since I reached for my makeup bag, let alone invested in anything new in terms of cosmetics. I think the last time that I came …

Happy...Wednesday?! At least I think it's Wednesday...who even knows anymore, hey? I don't want to harp on and on about living under lockdown again, but I think it's important to be a little bit reflective on things- especially as the times we are living through are anything but normal.…

One week down...how is everyone doing? I'm flitting between just about managing and staring into a void of existential despair, as I'm sure so many people are just at the moment. It definitely feels like everything at the moment is very much two steps forward, three steps back and the combi…

There’s something about January which seems to make it feel like so much more of an uphill struggle than other months, don’t you think? I’m sure it’s got something to do with the lull after Christmas, the five weeks which seem to stretch on for ages, and the almost relentless barrage of ‘new year, …

January, January, what can I say about you that I haven't said in some series of semantics over the last eleven or so years...(no, I can't quite believe that I've been posting on these pages for that long either..!) There's no doubt that the start of the year always feels like an up…

Aaaand, just like that...it's the new year. Goodness me. I still can't get my head around the fact that 2020 has been and gone in what felt like the blink of an eye despite feeling like Groundhog Day. Again and again. As the new year kicks off in earnest, I'm sure that I'm not alone…