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09/04/2021

THE BUBBLE IS HERE. All Hail The Bubble!

So here we are - April, 2021. And the Bubble has Burst. As of 19 April, 2021, we will be able to have Quarantine Free travel between New Zealand and Australia. This has been a long time coming - over 12 months. Imagine that. 12 months of not visiting loved ones; family and friends. 12 months of not getting on a big jet plane. 12 months of not seeing new pastures. Kind of crazy really. But now we are free to pop on over to Australia, and they are free to pop on over to see us. So I have taken my time out. I spent time with my family. Reflected A LOT. Gained[...]

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17/12/2020

See Ya 2020! Wouldn’t wanna be Ya!

Good God - I cannot wait to see the ass end of 2020. It has been SHIT. Really, really shit.Ok, some people thrived & were complete winners through 2020 - Amazon anyone? - but others? Well, the struggle was incredibly real. It is still incredibly real.So haere rā 2020. Adiós. Sayonara. Ciao. Au revoir. Auf Wiedersehen. Ma'a as-salaama. Namaste. Khodaa haafez. Just bloody Vale!And I have to say, if I hear the word PIVOT even once in 2021, I am going to scream like the biggest, baddest Banshee you ever did hear.2020 was a year like no other and one that wil[...]

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30/09/2020

TIME TO GET YOUR CREATIVE ON….

You may not know this, but I have a Fine Arts Degree.. Yep, I am a trained Artist. How about that!The Husband is constantly ribbing me about it as I have not been Artistic, nor Creative for a long, long, long time.In fact, the easel and canvas he bought me about 7 years ago are still unused! How terrible is that..But every so often I really get the urge to 'create'; to use the right side of my brain a little more, to delight in colour and expression and fluidity.To get messy with paint, to sew more than a button, to make a ring, put clay on a wheel and produce a c[...]

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20/08/2020

CHANGING YOUR MINDSET: MAKING IT BETTER

So I am undertaking a Mindset Course - The Power of Mindset. In a nut-shell, I am trying to get back some FOCUS and stop BAD habits and start GOOD habits. My sleeping sucks. My focus sucks. My eating patterns suck. My exercise routine sucks. But my procrastination is fabulous! Off the charts fabulous. Woo Hoo! I want to get back to the focus I had pre-Covid. And I am not the only one feeling like this - I promise! I saw a great Insta post by Business Chicks the other day, and I tagged a few of my fab female Colleagues in it. It goes like this: How are yo[...]

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07/08/2020

BEST TRAVEL AND FOOD SHOWS STREAMING NOW; SALIVATE FROM YOUR COUCH

I Love Food. I love eating it. I love cooking it. I love searching back alleys for it. I love trying it - all of it! To me, Food and Travel just go hand in hand. Two of life's most fabulous pleasures. Two of life's most fabulous treasures. International travel is off the cards for us all right now, but that doesn't mean we have to stop exploring. With some of the best travel shows streaming on Netflix, we have the world at our fingertips - with episodes that take us from markets in Mexico to hawker stalls in Singapore to the farthest reaches of the Arctic, a[...]

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01/08/2020

A NEW WAY TO TRAVEL – A WORLD POST COVID

Well, what totally unprecedented times for our modern world huh? It started when we heard about people getting sick in certain countries. Not really on our turf so we were still OK. But then our realities shifted, slowly at first, and then before we knew it, the coronavirus took over completely. Entire nations were ordered to stay at home, borders were closed, we were told not to go outside, airlines have gone bankrupt, travel companies are laying off massive amounts of workers and some just shutting doors, and hotels are now hospitals & quarantine centr[...]