2011: The Year That Was
Hello Lovelies,I hope you've all had a nice festive break and that you're all recovering from the endless stream of mince pies you'll no doubt have had forced upon you. I spent the majority of mine...
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2012 Goals
Hello Lovelies,A belated happy new year to you all. I saw in the New Year with some delightful friends at a post-apocalyptic warehouse party... sooo many awesome costumes. I looked a little like...
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Moleskine Wellness Journal
Hey Lovelies,What you may or may not know about me is that my first love has always been and will always be stationery. As much as I love food and exercise and making things, it's stationery that...
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A Dear John Letter.
Dear John (Or Archbishop John Sentamu, as you're more commonly known),Hello, it's me, Emily. You may remember me from the time you baptised me on Easter Sunday:How are you doing? I hope things are well...
View ArticleDear John Letter: The Reply
I know a lot of you were wondering whether or not my letter would get a reply... well, it did. It arrived last week, and this is what the Archbishop had to say to me:"Dear Emily,Thank you for your...
View ArticleThe (Wo)men of Twitter
So today is International Women's Day. I hate this. I truly, truly hate it.* I hate that we still need to have an International Women's Day. That we need to have a day for any gender pisses me off. Why...
View ArticleBuy a gift Spa Day Review
A few weeks ago, an email popped into my inbox, asking me if I'd like to receive a voucher from Buy-A-Gift for a Spa Day for Two. I, of course, jumped at the chance. My back is utterly screwed, and...
View ArticleJust a little note
... to let you know that I've fixed all the links on the recipe page again. My dot com url expired a while ago (and I have litterally no idea who the hell it was originally registered with, so I can't...
View ArticleThe Walls of Hermitage Road (aka Life with Non Epileptic Seizures)
So you may well have noticed, I've not really been around here much at all. If you follow me on Twitter, something you may well have noticed is a heck of a lot of frustrated tweets about being ill and...
View ArticleTired of looking at the same four walls (aka a bit more on life with Non...
Firstly, let me say thank you to everyone who got in touch and said some really lovely things about my last post on Non Epileptic Seizures (which you can find here) - it's always nice to know that...
View ArticleThe way things were
I remember what life was like before seizures came along.I remember being able to travel on the tube or a noisy bus without having to wear headphones or contemplate another route.I remember planning...
View ArticleMaking progress (and dancing irreverently)
So, there's an exciting thing happening today (although not the exciting thing that I keep saying I can't talk about.... there's a post coming about that later).Today, I'm starting Grade 1 Ballet with...
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Incredible talent (aka lovely things for you to buy)
A bit of a break from the norm, but I wanted to share the work of three of my housemates with you this morning. All three of them are artists or designers who are starting their own businesses and are...
View ArticleTime skips and the whowhatwherewhatwhys?
For the most part, I'm quiet on this blog at the moment. My passions have changed, my life has changed - a lot of the things I want to blog about don't really fit this blog. So I leave it here and...
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2013: What will your focus be?
2012 has been a weird year. It's been phenomenally good in parts, but has also left me feeling a lot less confident, sparky, strong and independent than I did at the start of the year. Now, that's not...
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New Rules of Lifting for Women: The Beginning
If you read my last post, you'll know that one of my aims for this year is to get stronger emotionally, mentally and physically - the impact of spending the best part of a year having a lot of my life...
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New Balance Minimus Barefoot Trainer Review
A new workout regime is clearly an excuse for a bit of new workout kit right? In my case, it meant a new pair of workout trainers.New Rules of Shoes for LiftingI love my running shoes (I run in an...
View ArticlePsychiatrist, protein and progress, oh my!
So it's a New Year, and despite all of my hoping and wishing, my seizures still exist. I'll admit that there was a small part of me that was wondering if maybe when the clock struck midnight I'd be...
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REN Moroccan Rose Otto Ultra-Moisture Body Oil* Review
Aloha!It's a while since I've written because, as most of you will know, I've spent a lot of the last year dealing with dissociative seizures, which means my brain hasn't been in the writing space....
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REN Glycolactic Radiance Renewal Mask Review
I think REN might be stealing my heart a little bit. I got a sample of their Glycolactic Radiance Renewal mask in one of the "exclusive" Glossyboxes a while back, and oh how I love it.This...
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