Cats… cats everywhere!
I was on my break during the Tuesday morning shift at Shropshire Cat Rescue last week when a lady brought in a tiny black kitten.…
I bought a Dell XPS 15
I’ve been trying to justify buying a new laptop for nearly 2 years. Despite it being the only thing that allows me to earn an…
Radical Self Love
I posted this picture to instagram at the end of May: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jem 'jemjabella' Turner 🏳️🌈 (@strongmum_)…
Spend your time wisely
With the recent announcement over on my professional blog that I’m now celebrating 5 years of working for myself as a freelance developer, it feels…
Insta fitness and chasing tiny
(This post doesn’t have an image attached to it because the search for “thinspiration” to demonstrate what I am getting at turned up some fucking…
The essure sterilisation procedure, one year on
I say one year on… it’s actually 15 months on, but it’s taken me so long to finish writing this post (as with all posts)…
Is this it?
I have spent a large part of the past few weeks jumping from one ‘chaos moment’ to another (as per usual) and I was sat…
Detox teas, crash diets and the gallbladder
I recently supported a short instagram campaign by the UK Fitness Bloggers highlighting the dangers of so called ‘detox teas’ and their call to use…
Recipe: Gluten Free Lemon Mousse Cheesecake
A recent(ish) meeting with some of my BFFs necessitated the creation of a cake, and there’s no cake like a cheesecake, but I could not…
Anniversaries, Races and …. this is a terrible title
What a month. WHAT A MONTH. Is it just me, or is May easily the busiest month of the year? (It probably is just me.)…
Orange & Lemonade Pt 2: 5 weeks
It’s now been about 5 weeks since I decided to stop drinking for good. I am sleeping better. Aside from a couple of weeks of…
Your anxiety is not my anxiety
I started writing this post a couple of months ago, but decided not to finish it because it came off too ‘special snowflake’ or a…