Local preparation well underway, satisfying ticks galore. Original 3 week holiday well taken care of thanks to a years worth of planning with travel mate Jenny. Additional six month sabbatical with a writer’s retreat thrown in? Less than 10 weeks! Friend sounding boards, research, long lists, endless packing, one of the busiest work periods since the Global Financial Crisis and [...]

So your back? Looking for more hints on how to manage your own house pack then? Or just plain curious about that meltdown? April Week 1- prepare for advertising: • Launder curtains: disassembled three lots, floor to ceiling necessitating an extremely clever use of ladder, bundled for eLaundry pick up and drop off, re-assembled, hang and a gave self a [...]

Sunday: • Pack kitchen ware: discovered saucers breed, broke up their little party, tenants only need six of everything, packed the rest. Hint – leave only essential electricals, if it breaks you’re obliged to repair/replace • Pack office cupboard: retired Thesaurus to Google, personalised stationery to email, complete Twilight series to maturity. Hint – Books are heavy! If you must [...]

Keen to learn a few hints and tips on how to pack and store an entire household’s worth in a single weekend whilst maintaining sanity? Read on… Context…leasing one’s nest for 6 months requires advertising a month in advance to ensure sufficient time to secure a tenant willing to take up residence upon exit. Photos associated with advertising must depict [...]

It was only a very small meltdown, a very minor panic attack, seriously… As per ‘List upon List’ post, a 6 month sojourn requires a strategy; and leasing one’s nest for the duration an insanity ticket! Well organised and loving a good list or five, I thought this would be a breeze…until my body said otherwise… If your contemplating a [...]

Ever found your internal dialogue preempted with ‘If only I had….? A futile lament of course for we make our decisions based purely on the knowledge we have at hand at that point in time. I’ve had many of those internal conversations but one thing’s for sure, I don’t want to be lying on my death bed reciting that exact [...]

“One day I’m going to retreat to the south of France to write my book” How many times have I said that to myself, possibly to you? Too many. Time to take action! Have registered to attend a writer’s retreat in Tuscany Italy and will follow with a six month sojourn somewhere in the south – to write, to dream, [...]

Alex Noriega, a young artist said…”At some point in 2010 I was going through a crisis due to some issues at work, so I decided to start this blog as a way of trying to find what I was doing wrong. I wanted to put on paper all that I had learned in life