by admin | Jan 11, 2021 | Personal
I do love a good podcast and one of my absolute favourites is Gretchen Rubin’s Happier. She does it with her sister – Liz Craft – who also has a great podcast called Happier in Hollywood with her writing partner Sarah Fain. One of their key ideas...
by admin | Mar 3, 2020 | Personal
This year I have been inspired by Gretchen Rubin and her sister Elizabeth Craft to try out a strategy called 20 for 2020. The idea behind this is simple, pick 20 things that you would like to do/work on and commit to doing them for the year. So the 20 I have picked...
by admin | Sep 26, 2018 | Personal
This year I attended a conference about John O Donohue , an Irish philosopher/mystic/poet who died in his early 50s. At that conference a friend of his called Dr Dan Siegel talked about how quantum physics and mysticism were now converging and discovering what they...
by admin | Jun 3, 2015 | Personal
Last July I decided to start running. I was inspired by the site of women running in the morning as I drove to work. They always seemed the epitome of grace and power to me. However I never saw myself as a runner. I was the girl who hid in the toilets at school when...
by admin | Aug 2, 2012 | Personal
I’vwe been watching the Olympics sporadically over the last week or so. The big battle has been in the pool amongst the swimmers. Now I have to say I’m no swimmer. I didn’t learn as a child and while I did try it again, my instructor – try as...
by admin | Jul 25, 2012 | Personal
Last week, I blogged about how I was going to play music with a group for the first time and how I felt terrified and overwhelmed… Well, I showed up. There was one other oboe player – a 13 year old (also called Anne) who was rather more advanced than me...
