Starting a business is hard. It’s not harder than I imagined, but I wouldn’t be human if I hadn’t have hoped that it wouldn’t be quite so tough at times. The first few weeks were brilliant, building something from the initial idea and the adrenaline pumping kept me going even when I doubted I could do it, however that energy doesn’t just keep going indefinitely and now it’s the more serious side of refining the product I can’t just have an off few days. Somehow need to find the energy …

I spoke far too soon. Apparently the speed at which someone can go from being so into you they make impressive changes to win you back and then deciding actually they don’t want to be with you after all is close to lightening. On this occasion I can’t have everything. My pattern with men seems to be repeating itself, though the half life is reassuringly dropping… a few years ago it was eight months, last year it was four, now I’m down to two. Soon I’ll be processing men as …

How many women have written about the cloud hanging over our heads that says we can’t have everything. We don’t stop to think that ‘everything’ means different things to different people, yet when there’s two areas of your life hanging on a knife edge there’s an assumption that you’ll only be able to save one. At the moment my life is hectic, so does that mean something has got to give?
The day job is at it’s busy peak, it’s the time of year that I have multiple deadlines looming and …

I can never quite work out why everything in life seems to happen at once, nor why when I have plenty of musings for blogs I don’t have time to write them. You’ll probably get used to seeing slightly less blogging action over the next few months (though hopefully not quite as sparse as the past few weeks), but I promise I won’t disappear completely. Writing is one of the things that keeps me sane, alongside exercise, and as the latter is still woefully lacking then I better make time …

You may have noticed some of my strange behaviour in the past couple of week. Mysterious requests for information from friends. Weirdly ecstatic status updates. Unusual quietness from my blog. A big smile on my face for no reason whatsoever. Such creepiness should probably be saved for Halloween so I guess I owe everyone an explanation.

The first I’ll start with is, as promised, to explain my Facebook status earlier this week. For those of you who missed it, I posted:
Describe me positively in three words (it’s for a very …

“So Helen? What’s all this moaning about being stuck home alone?” I hear you cry “Surely as you love writing then this is a blissful few days of space and time to write away to your hearts content?”
Well yes. I suppose I should be looking on the bright side. And most of the time I can. But it is amazing how isolating being stuck home alone with an injury is. When you have the flu/migraine/stomach bug (delete as applicable) your brain all but shuts down. You’re capable of sleep and …

My blog has become a rather eclectic mix of subject matter, so I thought it was about time I threw a movie review in. Except it’s not really a movie review, because that would require critical analysis and that is something I refuse to do when it comes to Sex and the City. Everyone deserves a guilty pleasure in life and this is mine.

In the trailer Lily (Charlotte’s daughter) asks “Like in Jasmine and Aladdin?” to which Carrie replies “Yes sweetie, but with cocktails” and that is exactly what SATC2 …

This was going to be a blog about what a fantastic start my running has got off to, but as I’m writing this with my leg elevated after a morning trip to A+E that’s not quite how it’s going to go.

This morning I was on my fifth training run when something went ping and I started to experience a lot of pain in my left calf. I stopped running and limped home, then got ready for work wincing in pain. I hobbled to the bus stop and then the shock …

Whenever I visit my parents in Southport I always envisage a relaxing few days of seeing friends and doing family activities, with plenty of time to spare for penning a few blogs in advance and catching up with Google Reader.
You’d think by now I’d know better. Within my first twenty-four hours I had been shopping (for clothes), shopping again (this time for food), out for dinner with one friend and out to the pub with another. I crawled in at 2am after discovering I can now stomach snakebite and black …

Was I happy about the prospect of a Conservative government? No. Am I happy about a Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition? I’m open to the possibility that I might be.
Those of us who have been campaigning for electoral reform over the last few days can see the beginning of it today. Proportional representation will see a future of no one party having a majority of seats. Therefore if reform is what we really want, then two parties working together despite political differences is a start of this.
Do I trust Cameron …

After staying awake for just over 24 hours on election day/night, I was still non the wiser as to how our country would look and operate for the next few years. In fact I could have stayed awake for six days straight and only just be having a vague idea of what might happen next. As I type David Cameron is just about to go to the Queen and ask if he can form a government. I would love the Queen to reply “Computer says No”.

As it was it looked …

Last week I took my ability to make spontaneous decisions to a new level. Most of my spontaneity in the past has related to taking a trip somewhere at short notice to see a friend or take advantage of a cheap holiday. I’ve often been known to jump at an opportunity to meet someone interesting with no time to plan anything interesting to say (meeting Gordon Brown last weekend was a fine example of this). I’m also one of those people that will volunteer themselves to head up in front …

In 24 hours the only thing certain to be happening in the UK is people asking the question “What next?” Speaking to friends, family and colleagues no one knows what will happen once the polling stations close. Will Labour hold on? Will Conservative get a majority? Will the Liberal Democrats get the most votes yet still only come third? Whatever happens the way the next few weeks, months and years unfold are a complete uncertainty even after the results are in.
The day after the election was announced I booked the …

Strangely I started writing this blog on Friday, before the events of yesterday unfolded.
I may be a couple of days late in mentioning Gordon Brown’s gaffe with Gillian Duffy, but what’s interested me is the reaction to it. Initial news reports suggested it had all but killed the Labour campaign, however it seems in reality it may have balanced out. A few votes lost by those who are appalled versus a few votes won from those who respect him a little bit more for seeing his human side.

There seems to …

Can you believe it’s nearly a month since the General Election campaigning kicked off? I’m not sure where the time has gone, yet it has and now I need to make a decision. I’m a postal voter so I need to tick (or cross – I haven’t read the instructions yet!) a box and get it posted by Friday. But I still don’t know which box to go with.

The biggest question I’ve been asking myself is what do I care about? WWID (‘What Would I Do?’ as opposed to WWMD) …