Essentials for Van Life!
We’ve just got back from an… interesting trip. Clearing up whilst waiting for rescue I thought “Couldn’t have survived without this” a few times. So here’s our essentials for van life!
Journaling for mental health
“Grounding” and “journalling for mental health” sounded like hippy dippy fluff to me! But here is some solid scientific evidence that journalling for mental health really works.
Why I don’t believe in “Happy New Year!”
Happy New Year! Your car / house / spouse hasn’t magically transformed from one second to the next! And there’s no guarantee that 25 will be brilliant. But if it’s crap, you can have a fresh start the next day if you want to! It’s all up to you!
Simple Living!
After the chaos and excess of yesterday, my brain craves peace! Time for some simple living!
In recent months we’ve been days without electric and weeks without water, heating or both! But in all fairness, you don’t need much to survive.
Reduce, Reuse, Relove!
My scars tell stories, and often taught me lessons (barbed wire, axe…) and are visible proof that I’ve survived! Like the sofa, whatever tattered mess remains of your life …there is still something beautiful to be made of your life…
Introducing our Budget Black Leather!
When I see something discounted or “budget value” my response is suspicion! If it’s leather we wanna know: Is it real? Why is it cheap? How will it wear?
This blog answers these questions and more!
5 Reasons to pamper your pet with leather
Leather does’s stink! OK that’s a total lie! But leather has it’s own smell (see our FAQs)!
Whilst it will soak up the oils from your dogs skin, this helps to nourish it, andas long as you give it a clean with a damp cloth every now and then it won’t collect the dirt. The weave of a nylon collar is the perfect place fore dirt and grime to collect. It’s the bacteria that thrives there that stinks!
Milestones
It’s easy, when you’re self employed, to let milestones slip by unseen because the only one you’re really accountable to is yourself, and there’s always “the next thing” to be getting on with. It often feels like you’re wading through … Continued
Unique
Fighting to hang onto a scrap of my uniqueness (yes it’s been labelled weirdness, rebelliousness, freakishness and more) … is also exhausting, but has somehow enabled me to keep a fingernail’s grip on my sanity…
In a world that insists on labels and boxes: hang on to you. Hang on to your sanity. Wear your uniqueness with pride!
This is me!
Bad (helmet) hair day, tan lines and burned out; it’s a sunny day and I’m working for a friend so my crazy is showing. That’s my latest two videos… that’s me!