Don’t “Swett” the small stuff

One of my friends added the following quote to her Facebook profile today and it got me thinking:
“If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.”
Orison Swett Marden
How many people really can [...]

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Home Sweet Home

We moved into our house 18 months ago, but you’d never know it – we’ve hardly done anything to it. But all that is about to change! We have great plans for the living room and even if our budget doesn’t quite match the scale of our imagination I think we’re going to be able [...]

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Brown and out

You would have thought that the disappearance of my bright pink stripe would have been quite noticeable.
For the first time in seven months I have brown hair, thanks to the miracle of L’Oreal Casting Creme Gloss. And my colleagues didn’t notice. My parents didn’t even notice. Let that be a lesson to me to remember to really pay [...]

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