Category Archives: How I Live

April Recap and May Goals

Posted on May 2, 2015 by nicdempsey

April was a pretty good month. There were birthdays and chocolate and Bank Holidays. the lighter days are helping my mood enormously too. So let’s look at how I got on in April. I hit at least 10,000 steps 21 days … Continue reading →

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Cooking Every Day

Posted on April 29, 2015 by nicdempsey

I’ve been thinking about food and cooking recently. I’ve been watching, Back in Time for Dinner and it’s been really interesting.  Basically, a family has committed to spending 10 days in a decade from the 50’s onwards, eating, cooking and living as … Continue reading →

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Life Happened – Quiet

Posted on April 27, 2015 by nicdempsey

Last week was a low key week. The sun shone, there were blue skies… I went for a run. When I say run, I mean mostly walking with a tiny bit of running but it all counts towards my step … Continue reading →

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Life Happened – Spring springing

Posted on April 13, 2015 by nicdempsey

I feel like I’ve been really busy this week, my sleep has got all erratic again, it’s the busiest week of my work month and I was packing it into 4 days, so it was pretty busy. Also Spring was mostly … Continue reading →

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Housework: Making the bed

Posted on April 11, 2015 by nicdempsey

People fall into lots of categories, tea or coffee, beer or wine, people who take their makeup off before bed and those that don’t bother. We could divide and sub divide ourselves in to endless little groups. Here’s another. I’m … Continue reading →

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Life Happened – Bank Holidays, Birthdays and Easter

Posted on April 6, 2015 by nicdempsey

Time for the weekly review and normally I’d be writing this on Sunday night but not today because today  is a Bank Holiday and I’m not at work. Or doing anything at all. Last weekend, I was complaining to Ma … Continue reading →

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Reasons to be Cheerful – March 2015

Posted on March 31, 2015 by nicdempsey

Reasons to be Cheerful and/or Thankful posts are something I usually do to remember that life isn’t all doom and gloom, which is why they featured so prominently when I was unemployed and in November and the run up to Christmas when … Continue reading →

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Life Happened – Migraines and Rainy Sundays

Posted on March 30, 2015 by nicdempsey

Last week was actually a quiet week personally but a busy week at work. I had a migraine on Tuesday, which was not fun. I’m doing all the stuff the doctor says to try and some months it feels like … Continue reading →

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Library Love

Posted on March 25, 2015 by nicdempsey

Before Christmas, I finally got my act together and prompted by the knowledge that I was going to severely restrict my book buying this year, I re-joined the library. Although the primary reason was selfish, I also wanted to show … Continue reading →

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Life Happened – A tiny bit cross

Posted on March 23, 2015 by nicdempsey

Before I start with the usual recap. I need to issue a correction. In the St Patrick’s Day post, I said that Oli goes to gaelic football ’cause his neighbour TJ does. The fact checkers (hi Ben!) would like me … Continue reading →

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