I love the monthly wellbeing calendars from Action for Happiness. January’s calendar is focussed on Happy New Year. I’ve decided to blog my progress through January’s actions. Saturday 4th’s challenge was to write a list of things I feel grateful […]
The One About Action for Happiness (3rd Jan)
I love the monthly wellbeing calendars from Action for Happiness. January’s calendar is focussed on Happy New Year. I’ve decided to blog my progress through January’s actions. “Spread happiness by doing kind things for others” Strangely, this was a difficult […]
The One About Action for Happiness (2nd Jan)
I love the monthly wellbeing calendars from Action for Happiness. January’s calendar is focussed on Happy New Year. I’ve decided to blog my progress through January’s actions. Today’s action is “make time to do something kind for yourself”. Now, I […]
The One About Action for Happiness (1st Jan)
I love the monthly wellbeing calendars from Action for Happiness. January’s calendar is focussed on Happy New Year. I’ve decided to blog my progress through January’s actions. 1st – Find three good things to look forward to. First has to […]
The One With the Goals
I’ve been an occasional reader of The Organised Housewife (as my disorganised house will evidence!) So, when I saw that Katrina was launching a 2019 Challenge to Declutter 52 Things in 52 Weeks, I signed up. A pre-challenge task was […]
The One With All the Negativity
This advert popped up on my social media feed today: My response: I’ve been a teacher for 16 years and worked in many schools. I’m respected (in the main) and valued. I’m happy. I spend time with my children and […]
The One About The Right to be Remembered
I’m going to utter 4 letters that are currently striking fear into the minds of Headteachers everywhere. No, not SATs. GDPR. There have been many posts on social media with GDPR myths – no names on displayed work, no named […]
The One About One More Year
Context: a grey Wednesday, a woman washing up the dishes in her forever house in an oversized village somewhere in the East Midlands while listening to The Girls cast recording. If you’d asked me in March 2010 where my forever […]
The One With the Knowledge
No, I’m not becoming a London taxi driver (or a pilot, but that’s another story!) This week, OFSTED’s Head of Research Prof Daniel Muijs is reported to have offered his opinion that teachers should be “periodically” required to demonstrate their […]
The One at the End of Lent
Happy Easter! 40 days & nights without Facebook completed. And oh, the nights…. feeding a baby at 3am without social media is so lonely! Other than that, I haven’t missed much ( if you exclude 2 babies, a shop closure […]