Reasons to be Cheerful – Being Part of a Team

Let me just manage expectations by starting with this - today sucked big time. I knew it would suck - I knew it on Friday when I was enjoying an illicit day off and I knew it all weekend as I did my best to ignore the number of unread emails creeping up on my [...]

Reasons To Be Cheerful – Getting Lost in a Book

I've always been an avid reader. I come from a long line of readers, in fact. It's a pastime that has always been encouraged in my family, with both my Mum and my sister infamous for their ability to become inexplicably deaf once they'd become engrossed in a book. Our house has always been littered with [...]

Reasons to be Cheerful – Cooking Up a Storm

As much as it annoys me sometimes living back at home with my family - the lack of my own space, not being able to get to the washing machine, most of my shoe collection being stuck gathering dust in storage and that kind of thing - I've got a pretty cushty set up. My [...]