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Sometimes the best way to move forward is to retreat.

6th November 2019 midlife 1 Comment

Autumn for me is in many ways the start of a new year, almost more so than January. The summer…

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“Mothers Day”

31st March 2019 midlife 1 Comment

  I have posted this photo of my children 10 years ago as I think this was my most “mothering…

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Indomitable will

12th December 2018 midlife Leave a comment

  “Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from indomitable will” – Mahatma Gandhi As I have got…

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Where did my career go?

23rd October 2018 midlife 2 Comments

  When I left university I went to work in marketing in a fun buzzing agency in central London. I…

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Time and space

17th October 2018 midlife Leave a comment

  I read a very good quote the other day which said “Motherhood is not the graveyard of your dreams”.…

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Letting go ….

17th September 2018 midlife Leave a comment

  Why is it that as soon as your kids become really fun and interesting to you, you become really…

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🌸I have turned off comments as I have so much t 🌸I have turned off comments as I have so much to catch up on. Not because of my first comment🤣. . 1. Going to start by taking out my can opener and freeing the worms...There are people who are starving and homeless and dying. Anyone who is fretting about not being able to go out after 10pm or be in a group bigger than 6 or wear a mask or walk round a shop in a certain direction need to get a grip. . 2. Movies depict pandemics as a mass panic, serious road rage as people flee their homes, when in reality it is much less exciting. We are stuck at home singing happy birthday while we wash our hands. . 3. We have gone from people showing off about their gym workout to people showing off about their sourdough starter. . 4. When we used to clap on a Thursday at 8pm for the NHS, I used to choose that moment to also put my bins out, thereby receiving applause for my labours. . 5. Keep forgetting that the cleaner is now me, but I have mastered sweeping the room with a glance. . 6. I now watch the news on TV from behind a cushion. Seems only natural to have the same sense of dread and impending doom as I had as a child for a scary film 😂 . 7. I think today is March 87th #midlifehighway #midlifehighwayweeklyroundup #itsfriday
🌸Some important rules for life that I feel need 🌸Some important rules for life that I feel need to be shared. Thank you @cariolinesutton for inspiring this list. . 1. Nothing eaten while standing up counts towards daily calories. . 2. Same applies to anything eaten straight from the fridge or off a child’s plate. . 3. Never send an email after a couple of glasses of wine . 4. No man has ever died while doing the dishes . 5. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. . 6. Any chocolate stronger than 75% is basically fruit . 7. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip. . 8. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, is that deep down inside we ALL believe we are good drivers. . 9. You can go anywhere you want if you look serious, wear a white coat and carry a clipboard. 10. Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue. #midlifehighway #midlifehighwayweeklyroundup #lifelessons
🌸Pretty simple goat getting list this week. . 1 🌸Pretty simple goat getting list this week. . 1. Reels....Enough already with the weird ones . 2. Anyone who still thinks it’s ok not to wear a mask in a shop. . 3. My sore arm. Ok, so I forgot to let go of the rope as soon as I fell off my water ski. I’m forgetful these days, what can I say. . 4. People who go to the trouble of picking up dog poo in bags and then either throw the bags into a bush or just leave them on the grass. . 5. Dropping a piece of cutlery into the bottom of a full and dirty dishwasher. . 🌸Thought I was just going to say ”reels”. Turns out there’s rather more troublesome little niggles than I thought. #midlifehighway #gettingmygoat #maskup
🌸Another week gone already 😳 . 1. One of li 🌸Another week gone already 😳 . 1. One of life’s little annoyances is bread getting stuck in the toaster. It gets stuck straight away, so by the time you realise, it has welded itself to the bars and comes off in tiny pieces, leaving one little bit to burn and stink out the kitchen. . 2. I was wondering why my kids put empty milk cartons in the fridge. Then I realised that it’s my fault. I replace it with a full carton and they think it’s magic. Empty carton goes in and becomes full carton 😂 . 3. It’s such a great feeling when you wake up after a bad dream and think phew, just a dream. Conversely, it’s very annoying waking up after a good dream and realising, it’s just a dream. . 4. When you have to prove you aren’t a robot when filling in an online form, you are trying to convince a machine that you are not a machine . 5. Why do we say ‘Hey Stranger’ to people we know . 6. Doors should always be pull to enter, push to leave. Public toilets, obviously. Coffee shops because on the way out you are carrying cups. This is so simple and yet I am constantly pulling open doors with my elbows. . 7. When a bald person says they are washing their face, where does their face stop and their head begin. #midlifehighway #midlifehighwayweeklyroundup #weekendfun
🌸Normally I do this post on a friday, but my ‘Stay or go post’ had so many of you commenting which I love, but thought I’d give you a day off! . So, this week..... . 1. My husband keeps thinking our freezer is leaking, but actually, I just keep dropping ice cubes and kicking them under the fridge. . 2. Why is everything so much funnier when you’re not allowed to laugh like in a library or a church . 3. Sometimes I wish my kitchen was full of actual food and not just ingredients to make food . 4. I open the door on the microwave before the clock hits zero because I hate the beeping . 5. Whenever I wash my towels I forget to get a clean one until I step out of the shower and note the empty towel rail . 6. One shoe on the side of the motorway? How? Why?? . 7. One of the most frustrating things is feeling a hair on your arm, leg or face and you can’t find it and you are just wiping down your whole body. Or worse, it’s in your mouth and you are grabbing at your tongue. Worst still, it turns out not to be one of yours 😳 . 🌸Have a great rest of the weekend. #midlifehighway #midlifehighwayweeklyroundup #saturdaymood
🌸So this is sort of getting my goat. A few of m 🌸So this is sort of getting my goat. A few of my favourite accounts are taking an extended break from Instagram, and it’s something I think about almost daily. . 🌸When I started this, it was like a shiny new toy, I was connecting with amazing women who were inspiring and empowering and going after life in their 50’s and 60’s with everything they’ve got. To be honest, most of them still are, or they have morphed into something else, but by then the bond was formed. . 🌸Now it’s all follow me back or else, and I don’t want to follow 5year old twins thanks. Every other post is an endorsement, sponsorship or on line course. IG is for everyone so I’m not having a go, just saying it’s harder and harder to find the women I was discovering 2 years ago. . 🌸And so political, I came I hereto be myself and speak my mind, but good luck with that if you don’t have a rhino hide for a skin. . 🌸I am also finding it harder and harder to see the posts of those I really want to see despite spending hours scrolling through. . 🌸So the jury’s out. Could just write my blog, write my ‘What I’ve learnts’ into a small pamphlet...and I accept that I am on here for fun so it’s different if it’s your business. . 🌸I’m absolutely not looking for validation, just as usual, speaking my mind and interested in your thoughts on whether this is as much fun as it used to be😊 #midlifehighway #decisionsdecisions #mychoice
🌸I think it would be more accurate to say my he 🌸I think it would be more accurate to say my head is empty. My sons American girlfriend who has been with us for 5 months, left yesterday. I don’t think I realised how responsible I had been feeling for her and now I feel bizarrely bereft. Going away for a long weekend to recharge my flagging batteries. Happy Friday everyone 😀 #midlifehighway
🌸This weather...that’s what’s getting my go 🌸This weather...that’s what’s getting my goat at the moment. It’s supposed to be summer for goodness sake. Almost as annoying is my husband repeatedly telling me that it’s good for his lawn 🙄 . 🌸 When you are cooking or eating and your cutlery slips into the bowl or plate and gets covered in gravy or sauce. . 🌸 Stinging nettles. Seriously, what is the point of them, really (please don’t tell me 😂) . 🌸 Treading on a random stone in your bare feet. I did that the other day, a little stone on the floor in my kitchen. It still hurts. Same goes for treading on Lego and an electrical plug, weird I know, but so so painful. . 🌸Toe stubbing, when you do it yourself, so in funny. When someone else does it 😂 . 🌸People who break in the car in front for no reason. . 🌸Anyone who comments on my driving! 😡 #midlifehighway #gettingmygoat
🌸So some of the things I have learnt this week 🌸So some of the things I have learnt this week are ... . 1. Ripping your mask off when you get in the car is the new kicking your heals off when you get home. . 2. I keep seeing people climbing mountains and biking extreme trails, and I feel good getting my leg through my underwear without falling over. . 3. I stand in the supermarket carefully inspecting the avocados because someone is standing in front of the strawberries that I actually want . 4. I Push the button on an elevator multiple times as if it’s going to make any difference at all . 5. When I forget to answer an email I reply by apologising and saying it had ended up in my spam folder . 6. I am always reading the directions on a food packet and then throwing it in the bin only to have to fish it out 5 minutes later when I can’t remember the instructions. . 7. Sometimes I will take an item to the till to pay for it. It doesn’t have a price on but I want it and how expensive can it be, right? Then you get to the till and when they put it through you realise it’s eye wateringly expensive, but you buy it anyway because it feels too late to change your mind. Did that with a tiny pot of eye cream. Plastic surgery would have been cheaper. #midlifehighway #midlifehighwayweeklyroundup #morenonsense
🌸For anyone who is not familiar with my ‘Gett 🌸For anyone who is not familiar with my ‘Getting my goat’ posts, I am a happy go lucky person, but every now and then ..... . 1. The person who did a poo and left it, along with 20 wet wipes at the gate on the road just outside our house. Who does that?!?! 😡 . 2. Delivery companies who say they have delivered your parcel, to the signatory. We don’t sign for parcels anymore. So where is my parcel because it sure as hell isnt at my house 😀 3. People standing side by side on the escalator when I’m in a hurry . 4. Catching your headphones and having them pulled out of your ears. . 5. Putting your glasses on your head and then getting them caught in your hair and they never pull out the grey ones, just the last remaining brown. . 6. People who leave their supermarket trolleys in car parking spaces .. 7. Leaving your phone on charge overnight only to discover that it wasnt plugged in properly and you have 10% charge. #midlifehighway #gettingmygoat #findthefunnyside
🌸I suddenly realised it is Friday and no way I 🌸I suddenly realised it is Friday and no way I am taking a photo of myself, I’m hot and bothered from moving my daughter into her new flat and sitting at the station in my mask, so you get a view of the back of the barn where I live. A few thoughts from the week.... . 1. I seem to have forgotten how to multi task since being in lock down. So used to having the whole day to complete one or two little jobs that 3 or 4 make my head implode. 🤯 . 2. Not sure why my kids are paying 9k a year to go to university when I seem perfectly capable of lecturing them at home. 😀 . 3. What are snails actually trying to do 🤔 . 4. I hate it when my computer asks me if I really want to “leave the page” even though I do, there is always a moment of panic like something might happen. It’s ridiculous. 😬 . 5. Why does the man on the walk/don’t walk signal stand with his feet at 180 degrees. Who actually does that?? (That might just be the UK) . 6. The question over who is strongest between my husband and me is resolved every morning when I have the whole duvet.💪🏻 . 7. Some people actually listen to what you are saying. Others are just waiting for their turn to talk. . 8. If you look at The America’s and Canada sideways on a map, they look like a duck. . 9. You don’t realise how little shampoo you actually need until you are squeezing the last bit out of a bottle in the shower. . 🌸Have a wonderful weekend my friends. #midlifehighway #midlifehighwayweeklyroundup #stuffandnonsense
🌸To those of you who are new to my account, I p 🌸To those of you who are new to my account, I periodically like to point out things that are “getting my goat” and this week there have been a few.... . 1. I had lunch with a couple of friends yesterday. I use the word lunch in the loosest possible terms as one of them was only eating veg and nothing with any seeds in it, the other one was as far as I could see eating half a cow covered in cheese. Could someone please just decide what we should be eating and be done with it.! . 2. I bought a pair of trainers last week and as I was doing them up, I pointed out to the assistant that the laces were too short to be able to tie them. “Oh,” she said “you aren’t supposed to tie them, just tie a knot in each end to stop them coming out of the holes” WTH, what is the point of that, why bother to have laces at all. As it is I had struggled to find any I liked that weren’t Velcro...I’m not 6 years old! . 3. People on the phone with headphones on...it’s no less disruptive for the person having to listen and doubly annoying because if I have to listen to “Really? She never” and “OMG your not serious?” I want to know what “she” did and what is serious 😄. . 4. Biting into a delicious looking apple to find it woolly inside . 5. Emptying dry goods into a storage jar but it not all fitting. . 6. Lastly “unexpected item in bagging area” what the hell was it expecting??? . 🌸Feeling a bit overwhelmed by IG at the moment, feel like I’m permanently playing catch-up, but doing my best to see everyone’s posts.
🌸Having my children at home has been bliss, and 🌸Having my children at home has been bliss, and nostalgic for when they were small, but when I really thought about it some of the things we do as mothers to our young kids make me smile now and feel a little bit grubby 😀 . . 1. Lying about the time because you want to get them in to bed faster or stay in bed longer in the morning. . . 2. Suggested “Let’s see who can be the quietest” as a really good game. . . 3. Sniffed their clothes including underwear to see if it’s clean. . . 4. Caught vomit in our hands. . . 5. Held a child on your lap when we pee. . . 6. Used the hem of a shirt to wipe a snotty nose. . . 7. Opened our mouths like a goldfish while spooning food into our child’s mouth. . . 8. I used to have eyes in the back of my head, but while the ones in the front have become long sighted, the ones in the back seem to have gone blind. . . 9. Believed that our child is the most talented, kindest, generous, beautiful person in the world. . . 🌸It’s hard work being a parent, but i am more proud of the people they have become than anything else I have achieved. . 🌸The reason I’m holding the phone is because I’ve been on hold with BT for half an hour 😡
🌸With the predictability of a spike in Covid ca 🌸With the predictability of a spike in Covid cases my Friday musings are here again 😀 . 1. I must be more aware of what I’m posting and why. . 2. Why do I wash my hair before the hairdresser, brush my teeth before the dentist, clean my house for the cleaner and yet I don’t eat before going to the supermarket and then end up buying way too much.🙄 . 3. Nowhere in the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty does it say that he is an egg. . 4. Sometimes I get to my front door and press the button on my car key fob to unlock the door. . . 5. What is it about converse that means my socks always slide under my feet, but not in other trainers. . 6. Sometimes I wake up and even though I’m alive, rigor mortis seems to have set in . 7. Somehow it feels ok to tie your shoe laces in public, but adjusting your belt feels weird. . 8. Chicken breasts is acceptable, chicken boobs is not. . 9. When you are a child you are exhausted at the end of a busy day. Now I’m exhausted at the very thought of a busy day before it’s even begun. . 🌸Have a lovely weekend. 😀 #midlifehighway #midlifehighwayweeklyroundup #fridayfun #midlifeinfluencers
🌸I posted my photo without giving a moments tho 🌸I posted my photo without giving a moments thought to the real cause behind it. Thank you @suzettestylejourneys for pointing out my mistake. . 🌸Too often I think the real message gets lost behind a general women supporting women. I for one will be digging a little deeper next time. Hope you can read this, for some reason I couldn’t shrink the squares to fit properly. #midlifehighway #thinkfirst #hiddenmeanings
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🌸This is the photo from my first ever “what I 🌸This is the photo from my first ever “what I’ve learnt” and I think this is my 60th. . 1. If you keep your mouth shut, you can’t put your foot in it. Sharing my thoughts, but not my opinions. . . 2. Several restaurants I have been to make you pay by card but accept tips in cash. . . 3. They make you wear a mask in Starbucks, but they will take cash from the person in front of you and put the lid on your cup with the same hand. . 4 . I have noticed recently that teenagers drive like they have a very limited time to get where they are going and old people drive like they have all the time in the world. . . 5. Why do we say Tuna Fish. We know it’s a fish, we don’t say chicken bird. Also baby lamb and baby calf I don’t get either. . . 6. The computer in my car can tell me the temperature outside, stream music, make telephone calls and tell me where I am going, but I have to read the manual to tell me what the warning light is. . . 7. Why is it that when you turn off the light in a cellar or basement you always feel the need to run up the stairs. 8. I wonder if we say ladies and gentleman as adults to balance out having been boys and girls as children. . . 9. Why would you never walk down the beach in your bra and knickers, but happily do it in a bikini. To clarify I personally don’t walk anywhere in a bikini. I lie down veery still so nothing wobbles. . . 🌸Have a great weekend everyone 😘 #midlifehighway #midlifehighwayweeklyroundup #inmybubble
🌸New hair, it literally feels like new hair alt 🌸New hair, it literally feels like new hair although not quite the ‘treat experience’ of old, mask on, no trashy magazines no coffee, it still feels good. . 🌸We all keep talking about the fact that ‘the worlds gone crazy’, and I keep saying that myself, but I am beginning to think it might just be that I am resistant to change. . 🌸If this is how things are, and it would appear that not much is going to change for a while then maybe a little acceptance of this reality is what is needed as opposed to digging our heels in because it’s not what we are used too. Maybe you have embraced the crazy I’m certainly going to start. Let’s face it, I’m half way there already 🤯. #midlifehighway #bravenewworld #opentochange
🌸I am off on holiday tomorrow, hurrah. 👏🏻 🌸I am off on holiday tomorrow, hurrah. 👏🏻👏🏻. We are taking our annual trip to Cornwall for a couple of weeks and I am going to take this time to enjoy being with my family and friends and take a break from iG. I am though going to make sure to spend time on my blog which has been woefully neglected.(link in bio). . 🌸Before I go off air, I am very honoured to have had my usual nonsense feature in @theglobalhobos monthly online magazine. They asked me what I thought about getting older so a mixture of ‘getting my goat’ and ‘what I learnt’, do check it out. The link is in their bio, and here https://mailchi.mp/9904b1bab155/theglobalhobos. . 🌸Be good my friends and if you can’t be good, be careful. See you soon 👋🏻 #midlifehighway #holidaytime #begoodorbecareful
🌸Mostly I have learnt this week that even havin 🌸Mostly I have learnt this week that even having a hot flush in 33degree heat won’t make you spontaneously combust, it will however give life to the expression “hotter than hades”. Other random thoughts include.... . . 1. Last week I was wondering about our bodies having a reset button and actually “Go to bed, you'll feel better in the morning" is the human version of "Turn it off and turn it back on again?" . . 2.If I get up 10 minutes earlier than usual, I behave as though I got up an hour earlier and end up being late for whatever I got up for. . . 3. If you are blind and you are reading braille that says “do not touch” it’s a bit late. . . 4. When did having real ingredients in food products become a selling point, like “Contains real meat” or “real fish” . . . 5. My dog has an annoying habit of sitting right behind my chair at the kitchen table or right under my feet. He does this because he loves me. It must therefore be hard for him to understand why I am constantly pushing my chair into him or tripping over him. He thinks I got up just to kick him in the head. . . 6. If someone I don’t know insults me, I'll probably ignore it, as their opinion doesn’t count. If they compliment me, I'll probably treasure it, as their opinion is important. . . 7. I remember when I thought 3G was great. Now when I see the 3G symbol it’s like “Oh, no service” . . 8. Even if the temperature is the same, you feel much hotter when you aren’t sunbathing by a pool or the sea than when you are. . . 🌸Have a wonderful weekend everyone #midlifehighway #madformidlife #midlifemutteringsandmusings
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