Dance Dance Dance

Back in May, I posted about the Freshman 15, my Pringle binging, and how I was trying to lose a bit of weight.
Now it’s October, and another kilo (2.2 pounds) has crept on since then. I made a little graph of my weight since the age of 18 and realised that if I extrapolated, I [...]

Medicalising the mind

I’ve been thinking a lot about mental disorders recently, and how we love to categorise them. We also love to invent drugs to cure them.
On Monday I went to the doctor for blood test results, and I am starting to suspect that the issues for which we are trying to find a “cause” are caused [...]

Dealing with stress – the Stein way

I woke up at 7am when Alex went to work, had a cuddle then slept until 9:30am when I wrapped my duvet around myself and sat in front of the computer. I looked at my spider diagram to-do list and wrote a linear to-do list from its branches.
I then stared at it for a while.
I [...]

Beachbeachbeachbeach

Right kids, a proper holiday beckons. I’m off for a week to the Isle o’ Wight. I had planned to be totally free of journalists, parents and other such nuisances but I’m not sure that’s do-able. Still, I’m getting away from the big smoke – the noise, the pollution, the tube.
The plan is to enjoy [...]

Two weeks, no meat

I’m celebrating my two week anniversary of being a non-fluffy-animal-murderer. Hurrah! In these two weeks, I have not eaten any meat, save for a little bit of tuna and <miscellaneous white fried fish>. But fish aren’t fluffy, are they?
I’ve become a really insanely happy vegetarian (pescetarian?). Today I made the kids veggie burgers [...]

Flirting with vegetarianism

I’ve been seriously considering going on a health kick for a long time. But I am a woman lacking in willpower. If I get cravings for Pringles, I’ve been known to go out, buy them and promptly eat the whole tube. Then I won’t eat dinner. Very often I will binge on chocolate, biscuits, chocolate [...]

I hate eye infections SO MUCH

Last night I was feeling energetic so I went for a scamper around Bishop’s Park, down by the river. It was pretty beautiful so I ran and skipped along, enjoying the serious runners sweating their guts out while I frolicked along for no reason at all, other than to be around trees and flowers and [...]