The first round of Maxine’s Challenge for 2019 is now over. We now have a couple of weeks off before round 2 begins, so over the past few days, I’ve been thinking of my plan for the next 12 weeks and setting a few goals. Most of those goals are about increasing weights in the […]
April Update
April Update Time for an update of what has been happening in my life this month. I’ve still been working more hours than usual. This has been going on since Christmas , but is now just starting to slow down a little. I’m happy with more hours than usual and also happy when there’s less […]
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Exciting Blog Announcement
Tomorrow Jan 31 is my birthday I will be turning 65, which really amazes me. Where have the years gone? I have no idea! I find it a bit difficult to get my head around the fact that I’ve now hit retirement age. But I do intend to keep working and to keep exercising for […]
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Memories of Christmas
Recently , I posted What I love about Christmas in this over 60 stage of my life. Even though Christmas now has a different meaning to me than in my younger years, there is still much that I love about it. That post caused me to think about what I loved about Christmas as a […]
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Strategies To Avoid Sabotage at Christmas
It’s that time of year again. The Christmas party season has well and truly arrived and Christmas Day will be here in just a few days. If you’re feeling like me, you’re probably starting to feel that all your good work during the year, in trying to make healthy food choices has well and truly […]
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My 5 Most Loved Christmas Songs
Recently I wrote about The things I like and dislike about Christmas On the ‘like’ list was Christmas songs. I thought I’d list a few of my favourites here. How to Make Gravy – Paul Kelly Last Christmas – Wham So This Is Christmas – John Lennon Snoopy’s Christmas […]
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101 Things In 1001 Days
Recently, I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed about my to-do list which seems to be getting longer and longer, and rarely seems to get anything ticked off as done. A couple of weeks ago I came across blogger, Joanne’s post 101 things in 1001 days. Immediately, I knew that this was the challenge for me. […]
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Advice for female cyclists – Don’t do this
The article that follows combines both my love of history and cycling. I posted it a while ago on my history blog but thought that readers here might enjoy it also. I came across it on Lists of note It was published in 1895 after two women dared to turn up to a cycling event in Chicago, wearing […]
