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Any posts that don’t fit into the main categories will reside here. Have a look through, you never know what you’ll find…
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Where to begin with my thoughts on Earth Day? I might start by pointing out the obvious – if we want to keep our planet habitable, and avoid a climate crisis, then we really should start seeing every day as Earth Day. Growing up, we don’t learn much about the Earth and how precious it…
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As the rest of the world celebrates Spring, with daffodils popping out, the air feeling fresher, the grass looking greener and the sun sticking around a little longer; the Southern Hemisphere is slap bang in the middle of Autumn and are capturing its beautiful colours. Mount Barker Road is the street that I live on,…
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This post is to celebrate me being in New Zealand for 5 whole years! When I first came over, my intention was to have an amazing travelling experience with my partner; seeing the country his father was grew up in. I didn’t know much about this small island country in the far corner of the…
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Whew, has it been a crazy few months or what? I haven’t had a chance to come on here and wish you all a very happy new year! I know many of us have been feeling it over the last two years; that stress and sense of impending doom. But until September, I really didn’t…
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Like me, you may have heard the term “Manifestation” being thrown around a lot. My assumption is that it has something to do with the rise of young people, especially women, following astrology and charts, whilst also making things happen for themselves. Mapping out personalities, guessing our paths in life, and the Universe’s plans, is…
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Most of my days have been pretty chill recently. In New Zealand, we have been in lockdown for 3 weeks! And I wanted to talk a bit about this subject. Specifically, the way we live during this time of Covid in comparison to our usual stress-inducing working lives. So, what are some of the lessons…
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Recently, I wrote a post about the concept of hygge as a guest on my mum’s blog, which you can check out here. This got me thinking about making my own post about what hygge means to me specifically. Just to recap on what the general definition of hygge is for this post… it’s a…
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There are heaps (like, thousands) of posts out there telling us how or how not to be sustainable. It’s not a bad thing, but it can be overwhelming at times. Because you know you’re doing the best you can and yet it seems there is a lot more you could be doing. So this isn’t…
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I say weekend, but honestly I was only in Haast on the West Coast of New Zealand for 1 full day, 2 nights. Friday We drove through “the Haast pass” from Wanaka on Friday evening. I begrudged going after work in the dark, as it would be a two hour drive and we would end…
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My first WWW Wednesday! I came across this idea last week, thanks to Susan Lyn Knits And Reads and it looked like something I wanted to be a part of. Taking On A World Of Words hosts this reading meme so check out their post to join in. The Three Ws in this meme are:…