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Reasons to be cheerful - part two!
Last April, I wrote a piece on the blog about 10 reasons to be cheerful when you're broke. Sitting here towards the end of January, it ...
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10 top tips for banishing Christmas stress
Christmas can be a time of major stress for some people. Families are brought together and spend hours cooped up in a small enclosed space (even the largest living room seems small with an irritating relative in it). Issues that have ...
The psychology of gift giving and why home made presents are best
We are getting close to Christmas and it seems that the present shopping is gathering a storm. We might be in a recession, but it doesn’t seem to be stopping the Christmas shopping frenzy. But is shopping the only way to celebrate ...
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Tips for a carefree Christmas
Make it and Mend it member Beardog shares her top tips for having a trouble free Christmas, along with blissfully simple instructions for making bathsalts (a great present) and a link to her recipe for "very easy roast turkey". ...
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Mind over matter – boosting your immunity
We all talk about psychosomatic illnesses and recovery as 'mind over matter' , but Is there really such a thing as thinking ourselves well? Can our state of mind affect our state of health? For centuries it was believed that the ...
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Flu season – boost your defences
All the recent publicity surrounding Swine Flu has left many of us are facing the annual “flu season” with a little more trepidation than usual. But there are lots of ways to maximise our body's natural defences which, believe it ...
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Managing your money – it’s all in your mind
Recession or no recession, we all want to save money and make what we have go further. Being wise with our cash is one of the basic ideas behind Make it and Mend it - that and enjoying the buzz we get from doing something that's creative ...
Getting the best from your holiday
Holidays and vacations are meant to be a time for relaxing and recharging the batteries, but unfortunately for many of us, they turn into a time of increased stress and worry. We spend so much time building ourselves up for the big event ...
Chocolate is good for us!
I know that this isn’t strictly speaking about sustainability and living a green life, but this is about using our resources to make us feel good……so the good news for today is that chocolate is good for us! Yea! For years we have ...
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