Reasons to be Cheerful – Mother Nature

Ok, I'll admit it. There are some upsides to this time of the year. If you can look past the fact that you're probably going to be a snotty mess for 75% of the next few months, will spend most of the time with your hair somewhere between windswept and rained on, and will forget what [...]

Reasons to be Cheerful – Doing Nothing (Again)

Following on from last week's Happy Monday post about chilling out, I decided to take my own advice and spend some more time doing nothing. Actually, that's not strictly true. I wasn't quite doing nothing, I was scheduling a load of blog posts after promising myself I would make more of an effort to keep [...]

Reasons to be Cheerful – Doing Nothing

A few years ago I was in the very lucky position of being able to call hanging out with my gorgeous 6 month old niece all day a job. I'd just quit managing pubs, was saving to move to France and my Brother and Sister-in-Law needed help with the childcare, so fate stepped in and [...]