Category: Blogging

My personal springtime challenge – Week 1

I have just had a lovely holiday up in the Western Isles. Skye, Harris & Lewis. It has been really good, the weather was glorious, we took plenty of exercise, ate well and talked lots. The picture below is of one of the Callanish Stones in Lewis, dating from 2,900 to 2,600 BC. they are… Continue reading My personal springtime challenge – Week 1

Simplifying Life

What do I mean by simplifying life? I am guilty of doing too many things, and hence doing none of them very well. Since taking up blogging, I have found myself getting swamped in things that don’t add value to my life, so I have decided to do a bit of a clear out. Email… Continue reading Simplifying Life

Save Money – Postpone Shopping

Save Money – postpone shopping. Well that’s pretty obvious isn’t it? It’s not a shopping ban, just postpone going grocery shopping by a day or two each week, or putting off that major purchase for a month or two. This week, my husband and I were feeling particularly lazy. For the last few days, we… Continue reading Save Money – Postpone Shopping

Mastering Bloglovin

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Starting Off I’ve just signed up to Bloglovin, and I am trying to ‘Claim my blog’, so I am following the instructions to put this in the first part of a blog post. I filled in all the details, and then decided to ‘claim my blog’. The first instruction was to… Continue reading Mastering Bloglovin

Happy Birthday Cracking Retirement

It is Cracking Retirement’s 1st birthday. On the 18th September this blog turned 1. If I liken it to human development, it is at best a toddler, just learning how to make its voice heard and starting to walk unaided. As some of you may have noticed from my post earlier this week, I am in… Continue reading Happy Birthday Cracking Retirement