This is me in the Lake District. (Is it me or do my arms look abnormally long?) I am on top of Fairfield, a 2863 ft mountain. We had to rely on our slightly dodgy compass skills to navigate as the mist was so thick we could only see a few metres in front of… Continue reading The simple life
Last night I achieved an incredible feat: I managed to make a curry that didn’t actually taste of anything. This was amazing considering the ingredients: 4 cloves of garlic, 3 onions, fresh ginger, copious spices (coriander, cumin, chilli, star anise, garam masala), fresh coriander, tomatoes, cauliflower and chickpeas. But no, it tasted of cauliflower boiled in… Continue reading Swamp water curry
I did it! Last weekend I handed in my hypnotherapy diploma – 68 pages of blood, sweat and tears. Over 21,000 words in total. I can’t remember the last time I worked so hard. It was a relentless round-the-clock effort with 6.15 starts and 11.00pm finishes, and as for the Jubilee bank holiday…what Jubilee bank… Continue reading Celebrations (and brain mush)
I had a telling dream last night: I dreamt that a singer from The Voice (which I watched last night) sadly died during the night from a heart attack. In my dream I heard the news and was immediately concerned it was Tom Jones (I have a soft spot for him). It turned out it… Continue reading Trying too hard?
I took this photo of a woman doing Tai Chi on a beach inWest Sussex.I could do with some of her serenity right now. I am googly-eyed from spending all day staring at the computer screen studying for my hypnotherapy diploma. My brain is frazzled and it’s refusing to cooperate. I don’t think I have… Continue reading I’d like to feel this serene
I went to the hairdressers yesterday and when I laughed at something the hairdresser said as she was cutting my hair, I noticed there were definite wrinkles around my eyes. Quite a few of them in fact. Good grief! (I have just read ‘Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas’ – for research purposes you understand – and… Continue reading Bad clothes day
We’ve just come back from the beach. It was a glorious day. We drove down with the roof down (me: attractively fully togged up in hat, scarf and gloves.) J made us a bacon and egg roll for breakfast… Then we went for a walk and passed these beach huts… We stopped to watch some… Continue reading A blissful day
Um…several months appear to have sneaked past when I wasn’t looking. My last post was over 2 months ago - I am officially A Very Bad Blogger! But I have my reasons: Something is up. Things are in the air. The planets are aligning...I have ‘plans’. That's all I can cryptically say for now. More to… Continue reading Hello, I missed you
Last week I did a sketch of my ideal life. This is it: Before I launch into an explanation (not that it really needs any; my ideal life obviously consists of me, my caveman husband and two cute children, staring out to sea whilst a book flies over our heads) can I just say that… Continue reading I’ve been living the wrong life
Last weekend, during the second module of my Hypnotherapy Diploma, I had a major wobble. We were learning about Time Lines, where you regress someone back along a line that represents their life and reframe a negative event from their past. @”&*#^#!”!! I really struggle with this kind of thing. Seriously, it makes me cringe. It was then that the… Continue reading Wobbly moment alert
Katherine Bassford 