Photo-a-day Collection – March 2021
Welcome to the latest of my monthly Photo-a-Day collections. 2021 is passing fairly quickly, and we are still in Lockdown 3.0 in the UK. I am a member of two Photo a Day groups: FMSPad that is a freely joinable group, which these posts share, and the Pixxxls group...
13 things from 12 months of lockdown
Today, 23rd March 2021, marks a year since the UK went into the first Lockdown due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. There have been 126 thousand deaths attributed to Covid-19 and it's complications. I went into voluntary lockdown on Thursday 18th March 2020 as I felt I no...
Body and mind
How do you view your mind and your body? Are they separate things, with the mind in charge of everything? Or is the body the one in charge? Or is it a collaboration? Does it matter? It’s common to consider the mind as an entity that is somehow controlling the body and...
Your sixth (and seventh) sense
Many, many years ago at school I was taught that there are five main senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. There was also some talk about the weird spooky Sixth Sense, and to show my age this was was long before that film came out. I'm assuming that is the...
Photo a day Collection – February 2021
Welcome to this month's Photo-a-Day collection. There is no actual theme this month, but it's February, so there is a sort of "Love theme" over arching things, and ideas connected to Weddings also seem to make a show. A slight issue for me as I'm really not that much...
Something to chew on – TMJ problems
Temporomandibular dysfunction (TMJ) is a very common condition and can be oh so debilitating for those that suffer from it. I described my personal TMJ journey in another post, and I happily admit that for many years I didn’t really know that I suffered from TMJ and that anything could be done about it other than taking the combination of pills that worked for me. This post is looking in more depth about the joint and also the symptoms and possible causes of TMJ.
Winter Blues
I shared the above photo on Instagram as the "This is also me" FMSPaD prompt on 31st January 2021. It was a pairing with the more optimistic photo of me shared on the 1st January, both can be seen on my Photo-a-day Collection for January 2021. I also shared it in...
Photo a Day Collection – January 2021
Welcome to the first of 2020's monthly Photo-a-Day collections, and the first of the new decade*. The prompts are set by the wonderful Chantelle who blogs as Fat Mum Slim. This has been a daily fixture of my Instagram feed (search for #FMSPAD) since January 1st 2017....
Equipment for Online MFR Self-Care and Yoga Classes
There a number of items that will make the classes easier and more enjoyable, but I am aware that not everyone will have these, or have the money to spare, or want to spend the money on tools. General Equipment List Yoga mat. To be honest, a yoga mat is not necessary....