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Summer in Spain - little tweaks I'm making for a more enjoyable Summer

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Last year I was so fed up with how busy everything was and the heat of the Summer I was literally ready to pack me, Mark and our 12 fur-babies up and move us all back to the UK! I had even got us visiting new build developments near where Mark is working and we were getting very close to making offers. Dramatic I know. But the Summer did get too much. It seemed that wherever we went, there were people everywhere.  The beaches were packed, the carparks, restaurants, our walk we like along the promenade at Mil Palmeras was always swamped with people. La Zenia Boulevard absolutely manic and then throw in the Spanish Summer heat and I was done. I get it, I live in a very touristy destination and people want to visit. Which I completely understand, we loved it so much we moved here!  But, day in day out when because you do live here, trying to get your normal weekly errands done was turning into a stressful nightmare. Not the idea of living in the sun. After the Summer when everyth...
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Starting fresh: My new Instagram page

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  So... I've started a new Instagram page! I've always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with Instagram and my original Instagram account has had many name changes over the years, but lately it's started to feel a bit stagnant. It's the one where I'm connected to family, friends, colleagues from old jobs and random connections we make along the way. But for some reason I feel shy on there and don't feel I can fully be myself and share what I want to share.  Maybe it's that feeling of being judged or that because people 'know' you, you worry they'll think you're being a bit cringe. It's hard to explain, but if you know you know! I made my original account private and I will still use it, but I've created a brand new space where I can just be me. If people from my old account do find me and follow along then I'll take that as a good sign, that they do genuinely want to be there. So, let's get into the new page I'm now ov...
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How to bring colour back into your life (on a budget)

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 I saw a post on Instagram the other day and I've seen some more similar recently too, it was comparison pictures of present day compared to the 60's, 70's, 80's. Showing how much more colourful everything was back then compared to all the muted tones we have today. It really got me thinking that it's so true. It really does seem like the colours are being faded out of our life. I've realised I'm always trying to find little ways to bring more colour back in, because it genuinely makes a difference. Colour lifts your mood, adds personality and just makes life feel a bit more cheerful, don't you think? Of course colour hasn't disappeared completely. But when you look around at buildings, cars, even the way interiors are styled and shown to us it's all very grey, beige and toned down. Don't get me wrong I do love a neutral colour palette. There are definitely times it works beautifully. My house for example does have white walls throughout and ...
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Things I'm doing now that future me will thank me for

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There's so much on social media at the moment about are you having enough protein, are you getting your daily steps in, having your matcha, lifting weights, getting enough sleep, getting enough sunlight, red light therapy, daily vitamin intake, journaling, reading, the list goes on and on. I know all these things are super important and there's obviously research and logic behind it all, and I too, now I'm well into my 40's I'm trying to make a better healthier version of myself, but it can be quite exhausting and even overwhelming at times, consuming all this wellness content that's fed to us.  Instead of thinking I have to do everything that is suggested on my Instagram feed, I just cherry pick the things I like, the things I will actually do and find easy to incorporate into my daily lifestyle and therefore will become a natural part of my life. Introducing more protein Protein is important to us ladies as we head into our 40's, it really helps to prevent...
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Catch up

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  Hey guys! How are we all doing? So this week has gone super quick for me, like crazy quick. It's 9pm on Thursday and I still have a bunch of stuff on my to-do list, but I do feel I've been fairly productive this week. Along with the usual, grocery shop, taking Mark to the airport, the housework (which I've still got bathrooms to clean and hoovering and mopping to do before tomorrow!) vet's visits and trying to make sure I'm eating healthy and keeping out of the treat box! I actually started the rest of the decking which I've been banging on about (mainly on my vlogs) for ages. I did the small decking a couple of months ago and the big decking for one reason and another kept getting delayed. I did start one section of the balustrades a few weeks ago and on Tuesday I finally picked up the paint brush again and carried on. I had a really good day of it and got all the balustrades painted which I really didn't expect. And then yesterday (Wednesday) I did the s...
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Love living in Spain again & why I had doubts previously

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We've had a house in Spain for twelve years now and have been living here permanently for nearly ten. What started off as a holiday home with a view for far into the future for it to become a place to retire to, soon became our permanent home.  We loved it so much we made the decision to sell up the UK house when we returned from five years living in the UAE and Mark, myself, Poppy and Lily (we only had two fur-babies at the time) move to the house in Spain. Mark would commute and I'd continue being the household manager and stay at home cat-mum. Commuting for Mark is hard ( I'll touch more on commuting life in future posts ) but the reward to coming home to the sun at the end of the week is worth it.  Since the move over full-time we have moved house within Spain and are much happier in the new house. The plot and the location to us is so much better then our last place, it feels worlds apart actually. We never intended to move, but that's life isn't it...
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Tips for a tidy home to keep you focused

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I don't know about you guys, but having a tidy and clean home really helps me to focus better and actually gives me motivation and more get up and go. Our house isn't necessarily messy, Mark and I are quite tidy people. I always leave the kitchen clean and tidy, dishwasher on, all the washing up done before I go to bed, morning me is always thankful of this.  But with 12 cats the house can look a little scruffy quite quickly. After the weekend I always want to get going with a new blog and start vlogging for my YouTube, but there's always a little barrier inside me stopping me and it's not until recently I've noticed that it's literally because the house isn't nice and tidy. It must bother something inside of me that can't seem to settle or focus until it's done. So now I make sure after I've dropped Mark off at the airport instead of moping around missing him, I start my housework asap. Whereas before I would do it gradually throughout the week....
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