What have I been writing about this week? MAY 2022 Look at this! I’ve updated this page (for the first time since December, haha!). I guess that means I’m back, then! After having been so busy the past few months with life (new job, surgery, focussing on other things), it’s nice now…

More organisation and less laziness when it comes to planning a plastic free shopping trip, please! — I don’t usually jump on bandwagons — I usually just watch them roll past me. But Plastic Free July isn’t the worst one ever to want to jump onto! I consider myself mostly eco-friendly. I recycle. I buy local meat, fruit and veg from local growers. I haven’t travelled abroad…

What are you going to do this year? — Plastic Free July is almost here! Are you doing anything for it? How will you get involved? You can give up single-use, disposable plastic entirely for the whole month…or just do what you can, where you can! I’m going to:- Use my cloth shopping bags Buy nothing online (the packaging is usually plastic) Make my own bread (and use a cloth bread bag to store it)

A few random thoughts that immediately spring to mind about the interesting times we find ourselves in! — Prices are going up quicker than we can count lately. Fuel, energy, food, groceries…everything is getting more and more expensive it seems. We all know we need to shop smarter, shop for bargains, turn off the lights in the room when we’re finished, don’t leave appliances on standby…we already know…

So simple even I can do it! — There are two ways to distinguish making money with your writing. Make money from your writing Make money with your writing The first, to me anyway, seems to be more that you’re a writer full time. …

And not as expensive as you might think! — A bulletproof greenhouse. Hear me out before you stop reading. Do you know what hailstones do to a glass greenhouse? They DESTROY it! Imagine coming out to the greenhouse after a night of storms to a shattered and broken greenhouse. The glass has shredded your peppers and cucumbers, there’s glass…

What you’re not told at school! Exam season has just about passed us now, with school leavers waiting to hear back about their grades. It’s a stressful time for students as they wait to hear what their future has in store for them. I wish they all understood that grades…

Some lessons you just need to keep repeating! — If I could get in a time machine and go back and tell teenage me a few things about work and life, this would be it! The actual tasks you do on a daily basis at your job definitely play their part in your levels of job satisfaction. …

Not everything has to be done online! When it comes to marketing your side hustle, I think we all know what the essentials are — social media, Pinterest, running an ad campaign, networking with others in similar niches… I think it’s safe to say we’re all up to date with…