Last night I was formatting a foxy spreadsheet and trying to calculate how many bottles of wine and how many pizza slices per person would be best for the upcoming Up & Running retreat in Bologna. It struck me, how awesome it was that I get to do wine and pizza maths? It’s now been Read More
A sad new obsession began on a drab Monday night while waiting for University Challenge to begin. Flicking around the channels, I saw that Food Network UK had been added to Freeview. Until last month I only knew Ina Garten as that lady that Adam the Amateur Gourmet adores; the one who did that roasted broccoli years Read More
* MIFL = Month In Focused Living Back in January I chose a Word of The Year. Rather than setting resolutions, a Word is a handy way to set a theme and intention. I chose focus for 2013 and I’m doing regular MIFL Reports to keep me on the straight and narrow. . . . Is Read More
The Random Number Generator has declared the following winners of the Super Sell Out prizes!
Last Friday was Burns Night, the annual celebration of the life Scots poet Rabbie Burns in which folk gather to eat haggis, neeps and tatties, washed down with poems and whisky. Gareth and I had been invited to a proper Burns Supper but were both rotten with the cold, so it was haggis at home. Read More
Gareth and I were talking about formative experiences the other day and he told me about the moment he feels is responsible for his, “constant feeling of being slightly disappointed by life” He was about twelve years old, at a Boys Brigade camp on the west coast. One day the lads had to sign up Read More
The final Super Sell Out prize is one I would very much like to steal for myself. It is a three day ticket to the 2013 FitBloggin Conference! This prize is one Full Access ticket to the conference on June 27-30 in Portland, Oregon and and is kindly donated by the inventor of FitBloggin herself, Read More
This third Super Sell Out offering is my pet prize because it was created with my own blood, sweat and swears*. It’s the beautiful Up & Running training diary! The good Coach Julia and I share a love of training diaries. We do like apps and gadgets but it’s never quite as satisfying as recording Read More
Huzzah! Today’s Super Sell Out prize is a one hour life coaching session with Sas Petherick. I’ve read Sas’ blog for many years, firstly out of curiosity for a fellow ginger. But then I got hooked on her honesty, humour and the way she grabs life by the goolies. Then last year Sas trained as Read More
The Super Sell Out has begun! This is the first of four prizes, all sharing a general theme of: Little Things That Made 2012 Awesome. Last year I got a Lamy Safari fountain pen on a whim. I’d gotten back into old school journalling and remembered I used to to love fountain pens when I was a Read More
