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What is it? A unique, newly discovered disease affecting many members of the human race across the globe. What are the symptoms? As with many infectious diseases, symptoms can vary from person to person. In the case of Lockdownitis, symptoms can also differ between households, geographic area and are often dependant on duration and severity …
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Before you read any further I need to say this. This isn’t intended as a fishing for sympathy post or a “woe is me, I’m in a worse position than anyone else” blog. Everyone is affected by the current situation in some way. No-one is immune to the current deal from Mother Nature. This is …
I think everyone is prone to new fashions. Arguably some more than others. Perhaps it is part of human nature to feel a need to somehow “fit” in society. Adopting a fashion can give us that common grounding point on which to connect with other humans. So what new fashion am I banging on about …
I should be writing. I should be writing a lot. I should be getting all of this out. And yet I’ve struggled, really, really struggled to sit down and write in the last five weeks. I’m not someone who writes every day. I’ve never been a regular diary keeper. I’m not a “writer” I just …
Can you guess the feeling in our house? I’m bored, like I can’t remember being bored for a very long time. The kind of boredom that turns you into a child. Wandering around the house, lolling on furniture, mithering my husband upstairs who’s actually working. Messaging friends to say how bored I am. And it’s …
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Imposter syndrome’s a term I hear often. That feeling when you don’t think you’re good enough to be in your position or that your achievements and high regard of others is not deserved. It can stop people progressing in a career or activity because they don’t think they’re good enough. A feeling of being a …
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I don’t really think of myself as adventurous. Sure, I like being outdoors, I’ve always liked going for a decent walk, I like swimming outside now, but I never think of it as “adventurous”. I have what I think of as “adventurous” mates. They go off and do proper crazy stuff like kayaking down the …
Gah, that was harder than I thought. For seven days (it should’ve been 10 but I got bored) I posted something very normal I do every day on Instagram and Facebook as a kind of antithesis of the perfect, exciting, fun lives we usually see of others through social media that I talked about here …
I get asked a lot of questions about swimming but there are two that always stand out the most over winter: Is it cold swimming outside at this time of year? Why bother when you only go in the water for a few minutes? In reply to 1: You appear to be wearing a warm …
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For the last 10 days of 2019 I posted a photo a day on Facebook and Instagram to represent each year in the last decade. They weren’t necessarily highlights of that year. Just a picture that represented a thing I’d done. Something I was proud of or something that just represented where my life was …
