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  • Start of the New Year

    Start Of A New Year

    28th January 2020 /

    It's 2020. The start of a new year and a new decade...how very exciting! Here's my reflection on the decade past and the hopes for the future...

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    Five Reasons Why I Run A Monthly Equine Tack Sales…

    5th May 2018
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    9th July 2019
    I resigned from the day job

    I resigned from my day job…

    24th November 2017
  • Taking a break

    Taking An Impromptu Break

    13th December 2019 /

    Taking an impromptu break this side of Christmas is probably not the best decision I have made for some time. However, time with the family and looking out for health has to be priority over anything else...

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    I resigned from the day job

    I resigned from my day job…

    24th November 2017

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    28th April 2018
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    14th October 2018
  • Olly & I

    Hey! Welcome to my crazy life……

    28th November 2019 /

    Welcome to my crazy little life! This blog originally documented my personal journey as a mature wife and mother embarking on a career change from the corporate world to the equestrian world. Nowadays, I tend to blog about three areas of my life I am most passionate about: my family, my business and self development. Join me, you never know what trials and tribulations we'll encounter, but it sure will be fun.

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    What a year 2017 has ended up being.

    1st January 2018
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    9th April 2019
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    Full Time Self Employed Anniversary

    24th November 2018
  • Five Reasons Why I Run A Monthly Equine Tack Sales…

    5th May 2018 /

    I have organised equine tack sales in a local village hall, on and off, for the last couple of years.

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    My 5 Top Tips To Organising Tack Sales

    21st May 2019
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    21st November 2018
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    8th January 2019
  • Wearing More Than One Hat…

    21st June 2017 /

    The time has come to spill the beans on an additional path of my journey I am about to start treading. Most of you will be familiar with this blog through my transition from a corporate office job to a qualified Saddler. Ultimately it still is but since my journey started in 2015 so much has happened and although I am still on track to qualify as a saddler I have unintentionally added another string to my bow which I feel will give me a wider variety of experiences as well as expand on my self development and networking circles. Have you heard of the phrase “Which hat will you…

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    18th May 2018
  • Depression and my five tips on how to help yourself

    14th January 2017 /

    I am not proud nor ashamed to say that I have and still do suffer with depression and anxiety. However I did used to believe that only ‘mad’ or ‘attention seeking’ people suffered with these characteristics…wow…how wrong was I?! I grew up in what seemed a tight knit family. My father was a hard working self employed gardener and my mother was an equally hard working employee. My grandparents, from my mothers side of the family, whom I spent a lot of time with were very well off. They owned a Wet Fish and Poultry shop in town and a large house with a Rolls Royce in the driveway. There…

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    1st May 2018
    1yr anniversary

    Full Time Self Employed Anniversary

    24th November 2018
    Start of the New Year

    Start Of A New Year

    28th January 2020

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Happy 14th Birthday to my mini me @lailah.rae Happy 14th Birthday to my mini me @lailah.rae
Lunch today was an overload of fruit and veg. Son Lunch today was an overload of fruit and veg.

Son made a mango, grape and strawberry smoothie with our new juicer (thanks @the_only_terezka for picking it up for me).

Then I did an avocado and feta cheese salad with mayo and hot sauce on top. yum πŸ˜‹

#highcholesterol #lowcarb #keto #lifestylechange #lookingafterme
⚠️ATTENTION - SHE PASSED!!! 😁 After 9mths ⚠️ATTENTION - SHE PASSED!!! 😁

After 9mths off the road and most of that time on stilts with no wheels on, no prop shaft and holes in its sills, the old girl has been welded, put back together with new parts, she has finally PASSED her MOT.

Thank God for that...she will be needed in winter, where we live 🀣

Now, we need to pull the caravan out and see if she still stands. Your services may be needed @moawkati with that one πŸ€£πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ
This courgette growing is a piece of cake. Am I me This courgette growing is a piece of cake. Am I meant to leave them to get so big? 

#homegrownveggies #courgette
So...we got a pool for the summer holidays. Best d So...we got a pool for the summer holidays. Best decision EVER!
A morning of madness: school shoe shopping at Merr A morning of madness: school shoe shopping at Merry Hell.
Was an interesting experience with a face mask and social distancing rules.
We survived, thats the main thing. πŸ‘πŸ€£
My very first home grown courgette. I think i let My very first home grown courgette. 
I think i let it grow too much πŸ€”πŸ˜‚

#homegrown #courgette #cottagegarden
Following a recent blood test, I am now classed as Following a recent blood test, I am now classed as having HIGH cholesterol.

I don't know yet if this has anything to do with the abnormality of my optic nerve as my referral to the hospital has been put off for two months due to COVID. So whatever tests I'm due to have will not be happening until at least September.

One thing is for certain though and that is that at 40 years old, I finally need to look at my lifestyle in order to keep the family hereditary heart disease at bay.

Two weeks ago, I was in the process of swapping to a KETO diet, which works on the basis of no (or low) carbs and high fats. 

For now at least, I will have to rehash my diet to be low carbs and low fat in order to reduce my cholesterol level to below 5 (it's currently 7). 

Another area of change has to be my exercise. I have gone from being very active (looking after my horse) to not active at all. So I looked up a yoga routine for beginners on YOUTUBE and started to do that every morning, and today, I went for a brisk walk/jog with daughter down the lane which we intend on keeping up.

Its tiny steps in comparison to what some people do, but I know my commitment and discipline to things like this in the past has been rubbish and I get overwhelmed and stop but being as it has to be a lifestyle change (more than a quick fix to lose weight) I have to enjoy every step and not push too hard.

In an ideal world I'd love to lose 2st. I'm not sure if losing this much would suit me as I've always been curvy, but to have a toned body again would be nice and at the very least lowering my cholesterol is the MAIN GOAL here.

My other alternative is to take medication in the form of statins all my life, and to be honest at 40, I feel too young to be relying on the NHS just yet.

I've taken before and after pictures of myself, but I'm far too embarrassed to bare all on social media, so I'll spare you that image but I'm happy to tell my story. You never know, someone here may be experiencing the same.

I tell You what though, it comes to something when I leave it till the health of my heart is in jeopardy to get fit and eat clean.

#staysafe all x
End of an Era for my boy. He officially leaves Pr End of an Era for my boy.

He officially leaves Primary school as of this week and starts High School in September.

Who would have thought the clingy little boy we dropped off at nursery all those years ago would become the confident young man (sometimes a little too confident) who is looking forward to his next stage of schooling, especially computer club and all the sports he will be able to do, both in and after school. βš½οΈπŸˆπŸπŸŽΎπŸŒοΈβ€β™‚οΈπŸ€β›·

Apparently, he's going to be a computer programmer and a professional gamer with his own Youtube channel πŸ˜‚πŸ™ˆ

We'll see what he says in a years time lol 🀣🀯
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