Thoughts and Perspectives

This week’s Food 4 Thought prompt of privacy got me thinking. At home, where I’m mummy to a young curious child not a lot is private. We often resort to spelling words out during conversations where we don’t want her to know the full details. I’ve also told her that …

Friendship is born at that moment in time when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. This was said by C. S. Lewis, and I think for the most part, I’ve made friends throughout my life because we shared something in common. …

My home has expanded this past year; it had to as we really like the area we live, and we had the space to extend. It just wasn’t spacious enough. Now, though it’s feeling more roomy. The living space downstairs is open-plan, so the kitchen opens onto the dining area, …

Having someone wrap me in their arms, or stroke my hair is the most obvious form of intimacy I can think of. Hand-holding and kissing too. Sexual intimacy can go deeper than just body parts connecting and moving together; I might feel like I’m joined with my partner spiritually. Moments …

I’m putting fingers to keyboard and putting this on your screen so you can all hold me accountable for what I’m about to say I will do for my blog goals in 2020. Wow, kind of makes me feel like an authority figure or something, lol. Jesting aside, I know …

Life happens; work, kids, other commitments and so on. Your head hits the pillow at the end of a busy, tiring day, and sex is the thing of dreams (not that I remember my dreams). It’s a common theme to go through peaks and troughs in life and sex is …

I’m writing this post because as I enter my third year of blogging I am getting somewhat frustrated by companies who reach out asking me to ‘collaborate’ with them, only for them to expect ‘something’ for nothing. If you are running a business, you need to pay for some services. …

The purpose of this post is to give regular readers an update on why things have been so quiet on the site for the past few months. Living amongst a demolition zone Firstly, the building works on our home, are way behind schedule. We are currently over 30 weeks in. …

This is why I don’t trust app-based technologies, including Alexa. I also don’t like them in my sex toys.

I’m writing this post to talk about the therapy I’ve started since my depression resurfaced a few months back. It’s a form of therapy I hadn’t been aware of before; Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. What does it all mean? In essence it means recognising that we go through periods of …