I’ve been meaning to write about dairy for months, but my original intention was to write about why we were prepared to spend more on organic dairy. Well, now we don’t drink milk anymore and we’ve cut out all dairy except for milk kefir and cultured butter from our family’s diet! The old me wouldn’t have
In the weeks leading up to Christmas last year, I did two crazy things: I quit coffee, and then I quit sugar. Neither of which were premeditated at all! The decision to quit coffee came first, sometime in November, when a prolific blogger I occasionally follow published a blog post about coffee. The article wasn’t
A few weeks’ ago I was really excited at the prospect of writing this post about hay fever because I planned to proclaim that for the first time in my adult life, I don’t have it! No sneezing, no itchy dry eyes, no fuzzy head, no runny nose… nothing! Unfortunately, after three plus weeks of wind,
Hmm, the trouble with relaxing is it makes you realise how tired you are… and then it’s very difficult not to relax more! Last weekend I went on a little family holiday to Waiheke Island. It was my first real holiday in over 2 years! Consequently, I now realise it was far too short because
Anyone who knows me well also knows that this little black dog with the white chin may be credited with saving my life. Perhaps not in a dramatic news-worthy fashion, involving dangerous waters or venomous snakes; but his entrance into my life undoubtedly kickstarted my recovery out of a bad case of depression. I think