It’s Father’s Day on Sunday and I am taking a trip up to Fleetwood this weekend to see my Dad. It’s the first Father’s Day since he moved up there and as such it will probably be the first time I’ve spent Father’s Day with him in a while. When he lived locally and I’d […]

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I am writing to you from Dingle in Ireland. I’ve been here since Monday afternoon when, this view was presented to us on our way from the airport. This is Inch beach. It’s over 5 miles long, you can drive onto the sand and, on a day like Monday, it looks like it could be […]

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Mr Strickers and I are exactly 2 weeks apart on birthdays. As such it’s his big day today – and I mean BIG day. He’s not one for publicly sharing, but he won’t mind me telling you that he’s 60 today. Sixty. It surprises everyone who knows him when they find out his age. There’s […]

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Thank you for your lovely emails wishing me a happy birthday last week. I had a great day. Mr Strickers and I took off to Bournemouth for the day and did nothing much. Just how I like it. I decided that the best present I could give myself was two days off social media and […]

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Yep. Today is my birthday. I also think of it as New Year’s Day. Today, apart from taking off to the coast for the day, I’ll be thinking about the past 12 months and the next twelve. This time last year I was newly into the Metabolic Balance® programme having just been alerted to the […]

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How was your Bank Holiday weekend? Wasn’t it cracking weather?! I saw a news article that said that the May Day Bank Holiday was only introduced in 1978 ( I was quite surprised by that) and that this was the first time since then that temperatures topped the brow-moistening heights of 28 degrees. These statisticians […]

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Last week I saw a fantastic quotation on someone’s Instagram feed. ‘Wellness is the new rebellion’ – Danielle Laporte It sent a bolt of energy through me as it captured in that short phrase my own feelings right now. I feel like a warrior with one single goal – full health. I’ve always had an […]

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I’m flying solo this week. Mr Strickers has gone on a little trip to see his family in Canada and, for the first time in 27 years of being together I am in our house, on my own. No kids, no husband, just little old me. It’s been a nice change! This is not the […]

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