Bonjour Vendredi! The week has sailed by, full to the brim with life stuff, LApothecary stuff, home stuff. There is a whole lot of coaching going on in our house as Boo has a challenging thing coming...
I stumbled into motherhood young. I was just 26 and my career was not that established. Growing up there was always a need to define and go after a career...as if obtaining a career was the single mo...
What a difference a day makes. It is as if the whole British nation is in raptures because...get ready...the sun came out. There was warm wind. Trees rustled in summer-esque glory. The grass seemed t...
Because I am always thinking of you...today, I have started to sell little sized bottles of LApothecary facial oil...dinky, petite, baby, for those who want just to try it out. And P.S...we ship worl...
I look back sometimes on what I have written and see definite trends and patterns. I think, therefore I blog. I do acknowledge there has been a whole lot of soul searching and business-launching late...
I arrived in this town, this little corner of England, in 1980. I am still here...after all these years. It feels sometimes as if I exist in an envelope of this place and I wonder, is the envelope se...
I have a good friend; a best friend, called Paula.One of the smartest people I ever happened across, Paula and I have firstborn children the same age. I met her when she and her husband moved down fr...
The alarm sounds and I wonder how on earth it can be morning again so soon?! Sleep seems like a precious commodity; never, ever enough! Each day I resolve to go to bed earlier but it never seems to h...
Happy Monday! If its overcast and gloomy (it is here!) and you would like to immerse yourself in some summer beauty...I am guest posting at The Bottom of the Ironing Basket. Simone lets me drop in ev...
So, I have a somewhat chequered past when it comes to fitness. I used to regard it with suspicion. I lacked understanding, as my contemporaries obsessed about training and started entering marathons ...
Im taking a moment...be patient, humour me...can I just say, what a week! Who knew I had it in me? I thought I was a corporate girl, not an entrepreneur! I am a conservative thinker, adverse to chang...
Its small but, to me, PERFECTLY formed.Its taken tenacious decision making!Its been all about standing by what I LOVE.And staying TRUE to core principles; quality and simplicity.via LApothecar y&...
Finally Friday! A week of elated ups and some slightly lower downs. We continue to live in a state of some flux, waiting for the normality of school and jobs to have their effect. School at least is ...
The pursuit of all. Somewhere along the way I got greedy and decided (consciously or sub-consciously?) that I wanted it all. The whole life. With all the trimmings. My Dad asked me recently, why do t...
This week has been a whirl. I am on holiday from my corporate job, but the rest of my busy little life is positively cancelling out any relaxation time! Thats not a bad thing, as right now is a time ...
I am being ever so slightly over-sensitive these days. I refer to the creation of the Apothecary brand, which is shaping up to be like a wild, good, hair-raising, roller-coaster process! When it laun...
Half-Danish,SENTIMENTAL thinker,Follower; not leader,Beach freak,via crush cul de sacCloset entrepreneur,WILLOWY brunette,Long-term, fully paid up visitor to Dog Island,POTION blender,via tiny white ...
Before the Apothecary entered my life, most of my creative impulses were channelled into this blog; if I felt the need to write, Id write. Now I feel like every creative urge is going into the new bu...
Maybe...somewhere, there is another me. One of my most precious friends Emma, said she was in the Royal Albert Hall the other night and saw someone just like me. Mannerisms and everything. This leads...
Ive spent some time considering the plight of the working mother. This is a topic I often land on, having spent the best part of ten years juggling a corporate job and a family. But recently I have o...
If I had a gauge or a barometer for life-empty/life-full, it would read fairly near full at the moment. This should serve as a lesson to me, that you never know what is around the corner. Just on the...
It seems lucky to me that I met the boy next door. When riding my bike past the house that had welcomed that new family in 1981, little did I know how he would come to mean everything to me.Lucky tha...
Can it be Friday again so soon? Days are merging as work and home collide. I am now nearly three months into my return to work and my goodness the creaks are starting to show! How tired?! My brain ac...
Dear Louise,This life balance youre trying to find...Im not sure its ever going to stay for long. It is like an elusive willo-the-wisp; just when you think you have it all figured out, you realise (u...
A surprising week. In a way, its good that life is not predictable. The days bring with them surprising elements. This week my Dad and I started a little project together (Hello Pa!) of getting my Ap...
You know when youve known someone for ages and then they do something that reminds you why you ever liked them in the first place? Thats what is happening in our house at the moment. My husband, who ...
Despite my assertions a few days ago, things have caught up with me this week. Its Friday and I dont want to do any more work! Ive spent all week fighting this deep-sea-diver tiredness that is remini...
Whats with this weather? Is it sunny where you are? Its miserable here. I am meant to be spending the afternoon watching Boo in a netball tournament...its going to be soggy. Meanwhile yesterday was e...
When I worked full time, I used to hate Mondays. That uncertain knowledge that youd be on the treadmill until Friday came around again. For the years that I have worked part time, Mondays represent s...
Its been one of those weeks where I feel like I have so much rushing round my head - all good stuff. Really positive, exciting stuff. Embrace-your-life-plan stuff. I had an idea and then I let it sit...
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