Embracing vs celebrating

May 27, 2012

Today’s post has changed its tone several times. What what you’re about to read is actually quite different to the original draft. I’ve been feeling kind of torn you see…. in a overanalysing, ‘am I a bad person?’ kind of way! I recently started following an online magazine on Facebook and Twitter. Plus Model Magazine [...]

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South of the border

April 11, 2012

I’m sure, as avid readers of my blog, you will recall my post a month or so ago announcing that I was getting on a plane. I know, I know… no biggie for most people, including the former-me (who once travelled a bit for work). But – as I said in the previous post, I’ve [...]

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I’m leavin’ on a jet plane

February 6, 2012

I did something sort of momentous on the weekend. (And no, I don’t mean the fact that I finally changed this blog over to my own domain name, after almost a year of talking about it!) I agreed to go away for a few days in April. By plane. Now, the reason that this is [...]

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Guest post II – amateur hour

January 25, 2012

Today I feature the second guest post by Myra (aka my inner critic; or as I like to call her… my resident mind-bitch). I’ve asked her, however, to write as an independent observer on this particular topic… rather than the manipulative cow she most-often is. I’ve noticed that Schmiet’s been thinking more and more about [...]

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The ghosts of christmases past

January 4, 2012

I recently spent Christmas at home with my mother. It was just the two of us, following the passing of my father two months before… and I have to say, it was very pleasant and mostly quite restful. On a couple of evenings, in the absence of anything decent to watch on television, we pulled [...]

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Tips for young players

December 29, 2011

So many health and fitness blogs feature posts documenting the writer’s food diary and exercise program, or similar. The more creative types also include a few photographs of their healthy lunches or dinners, to impress upon us their commitment to healthy living. I’ve always felt a bit of envy when I come across these sites [...]

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