June 25th, 2008
I shared this Zen aphorism with the kids the other day. We were discussing sitting back on ones laurels, not putting too much effort in, being content to just drift - I should mention here that I have a teenager, and despite having been told for years (13 to be precise) that the teenage years are tough - for all concerned - they have indeed taken us somewhat aback. It is mainly this laid-back, so-what, moody attitude. The seeming lack of ambition, drive or energy. So we are currently on a campaign to go beyond the summit and we need all the motivational assistance we can get. I have found that my instinct for becoming my son’s friend works best - I have learnt to keep quiet (mostly) when his attitude stuns me. And I have found that it is for me, not him, to aim higher than the highest peak - from there I will be able to reach down and pull him up. Not an easy thing to do but then all worth while challenges have their moments!
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December 7th, 2007
This yuletide the UK will produce three million tonnes of rubbish alone - we might have spent the year recycling, turning down the heating, walking or cycling everywhere, but Christmas is probably going to be our least eco-aware time of the year.
As we prepare to send 744 million Christmas cards, use 8,000 tonnes of wrapping paper, and put up 8 million trees we should really cast a thought towards our green promises and not let the excitement of Christmas wipe out all our good work! I have a wonderful client who designs packaging - and they are as concerned as the rest of us should be - because at this time of the year we tend to reach for those huge, over-packaged items which contain some small lonely furry toy, which will thrill our child for an initial wowy moment, then lead to long minutes trying to prise him from his carton prison only to discover that we have a large stack of landfill and one small toy!
Holmes & Marchant are gently trying to educate all their clients into accepting packaging should protect, inform and promote, but not take over - their solution? Well create packaging that can either be re-cycled, but for special occasions such as Christmas, packaging that can be re-used, a sponge bag, a sports bag, a teddy’s sleeping bag.
It is relatively easy to do our green bit during the year but the real test is at these times and we should really make an effort because the little ones in our lives deserve to grow up in a beautifull, safe world!
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October 19th, 2007
The holidays are back! Fantastic! Suddenly the house is turned into warm and wonderful chaos - uniforms are thrown into the washing machine with more determination than usual, skates are left out by the backdoor and all holiday homework is firmly parked in the ’school basket’ to be ignored until the last minute! But this time I stupidly agreed to let my two younger ones go to Holiday Club - it does sound fancy but actually it is a bit of a parking space for busy working parents and what is on offer could easily be replicated at home - for film and popcorn read DVD and microwaved popcorn, for playstation tournament read - well what happens at home - anyway I paid up and walked them through the bright sunny morning to the Holiday Club - read Nissan Hut - and now I feel bereft - certainly I am working but I know they are probably looking around thinking - hmmm - Holiday Club indeed - I did try to explain to them that the description belied what was really on offer - it is all about managing expectations - I hate to think they are disappointed - yet another one of those harsh childhood lessons - extra marshmallows on frothy hot chocolate when they return and I have decided we should all go out to dinner (actually they are probably having a lovely time and it is just me suffering!!)
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October 9th, 2007
Breakfast is one of those funny meals in our house that can either run into lunch when we are on holiday and too busy to stop playing in our PJs - or has to be slightly forced down because we are late for school and certainly must have something warm and nutricious to see us out the door. Personally I can’t quite decide whether eating before my run is a good or bad thing so often I skip breakfast first thing and run feeling starved! One of the issues of course is finding something that is nutricious and yet does not taste like sawdust. I do love porridge but we all agree it is not an every-morning thing. We take it in turns to make fresh pancakes and that is great but again the need for variety creeps in - then we discovered Lovedean Larder. Now I have ‘knitted’ my own muesli in the past - added my own toasted sunflower seeds, handfuls of raisins and whatever else I could find that fitted the ‘healthy’ bill, but the difference here is that Lucy O’Donnell’s clever recipes are carefully designed to blend texture, flavour and nutrition into something that frankly is almost too good for mere breakfast - so we are now into healthy snacking with it too!!
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October 4th, 2007
Whilst wearing my ‘other’ hat and taking part in a brainstorming session with 7 very creative people last week – it struck me how little importance we place on our sense of smell when creating a ‘business-like’ atmosphere. The fact that the Japanese pump lemon oil through the air conditioning units of some top banks (to invigorate their employees) has not quite – well – wafted over here yet. As I have talked about before, I have a lovely friend who is a life-coach and she uses Focus to great use – but here we all sat – straining our brains to wring out creative thought-pieces, and I had one of those cartoon-style voice bubbles and thought – time to hit the oils and design a blend that encourages, engenders, envelopes us with creativity – well you can see what I mean…. I need some myself obviously! This leads me straight onto to how the current education system is designed to draw all creativity out of the kids and replace it with a sound education… but that might have to be another blog!!
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September 18th, 2007
I don’t know whether it is some sort of strange planetary alignment but these last few days I have had an unprecendeted number of orders for What If? and a couple of phone calls from mothers who have over-anxious children - at this rate I will need to start some sort of poll to establish whether September is the month for feeling anxious. True back to school is a big key factor, but it is those other, less tangible What Ifs? that seem to be asailing us. What If the sky falls on my head of course has been going on since Asterix first came to cartoon life and it is worth taking a little time to analyse why we all, big and small, have moments where we doubt, we feel anxious, tomorrow seems like the great unknown. If any of you would like to share your What Ifs - here is your chance - it is always therapeutic to get these things off your chest but it also helps us put things into perspective. Often these feelings represent changes, be they physical, emotional, in the past or in the future and it is best not to berate ourselves but to have a few introspective moments to reassure our inner self - and of course a good dose of What If always helps to support us through those more wobbly moments!
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September 10th, 2007
We have been through our first week at school and already we have heard dread stories of lice, tummy bugs and the odd cough and sneeze - surely not yet, aren’t their immune systems full of Summer enzymes? Well for those who had to put up with this year’s British Summer it is possible that the immune systems are well below zero - so I think this is a good time to roll out some boosting material. Bee pollen is wonderful and easy to disguise in smoothies. Blackberries are so abundant this year, we are lucky enough to have hedges of them wherever we walk or cycle and they are packed with antioxidants. Fresh mint tea with delicious manuka honey, plenty of that last minute late summer sunshine and of course lashings of essential oils!! At night lavender dotted about to relax and keep bugs at bay, in the bath a few drops of chamomille blended in a little sweet almond oil to gently unwind (we love Stars diluted in almond oil but that might be extravagant!). It has to be Snuffles to take on a hanky to school. I sprinkle a little on collars too - so far we have avoided nits and the likes but I can’t say for sure that the peppermint got in their eyes and put them off…!
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September 4th, 2007
Back to school - surely not that time of the year already! And of course this is the right time to start rolling out all those wonderful oils - this morning was the first day back for two of my three and ‘What If’ was the chosen blend - no hesitation there!! Even the teachers seemed a little jittery this morning, I did feel this would have been a perfect day for filling the school with some wonderful smells to get everyone in a confident mood. It is precisely this time of the year that makes me want to delve into my oils and switch from the more zesty citruses of the summer towards the slightly deeper notes of geranium, vetivert and marjoram. As the colours dip from greens to golds, so too does our sense of smell change - so bring on a golden Autumn I say and fill those classrooms with beautiful scents!
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July 17th, 2007
Well so far it has been the wettest Summer I can remember for ages - made worse by the promise it would be the hottest and driest - add to that the fact that it seems to have instigated a rash of odd Summer-time coughs, colds and sore throats and it feels that - as we approach the Summer holidays - I am less occupied with preparing juicy bbq’s and far more busy with keeping fevers down and coughs at bay. Some tried and true natural remedies for coughs include delicious things such as lemon and ginger, liquorice and fresh thyme from the garden made into a tea with a dollop of manuka honey. The perfect blend of oils is still Snuffles - you can’t beat the fresh, head-clearing smell of rosewood teamed with peppermint - it makes everyone feel a little perkier immediately and the bedroom does not smell like a sick room at all! Propolis is the best way to tackle a sore throat - you can almost feel it doing good on its way down and finally - pineapple and fresh pears are soothing and healing - if you aren’t well you might as well make the most of it and treat yourself to the best natural things you can find!
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