You might think that the umbilical cord is cut when your baby is born, but you’d be wrong. In most cases I don’t think it’s ever cut; it just stretches. Despite being the younger child, Miss 25 spread her wings and flew the nest at the tender age of 18 – long before I was […]
100 Things I Like About Myself
Have you ever noticed that it’s really easy to name the things that we *don’t* like about ourselves – and a lot tougher to come up with a list of things that we *do*? Many years ago in my bible study group, we were asked to list a few things we liked about ourselves, and […]
Is It Time to Go Cardless?!
I’m hip, I’m modern, I’m with it 😉 … quite some time ago Miss 25 set me up so I could go cardless, and pay instead using my phone. But that’s not the type of cardless I’m talking about today. No, I’m thinking of greeting cards, and in particular birthday cards. Christmas cards have pretty […]
Feeling the Pressure (Peer Pressure that is!)
You’d be forgiven for thinking that once you’d left high school, you’d also left peer pressure behind – but the reality is that peer pressure is something that affects us all to some extent, throughout our lives. Peer Pressure as a Young Woman At teacher’s college, I was in a crowd that valued good marks […]