Taking care of the workforce (ie you)
Looking after a home and family is physically demanding work. Without health, energy and emotional calm, it can be an uphill struggle. So it makes sense to prioritise your well-being, make it non-negotiable. Looking after No1 needs to be Job #1. However, the...Nigella: My Kitchen Emergency Service
This week sees the return to our screens of the lovely Nigella Lawson. Her new series, Nigella Kitchen, begins Monday 30th September at 8pm on BBC 2. So to celebrate this happy event, I thought I would mark the occasion with a Nigella-flavoured blog post. I recently...
Feng shui & housework
Much as I love the summer, and much as I love my children, I have been known to feel the strain of the summer school holidays. I take my hat off to all the mums who manage to enjoy, rather than endure, the long break. However, I will admit, it does have its perks...
The ‘joy’ of mealtimes (Book extract from Housework Blues)
Plan, Shop, Chop I was once reading a cook-book by that original domestic goddess -Nigella Lawson. In it, she casually mentioned that planning and shopping are as much a part of cooking as the kitchen-based business. This was a eureka moment for me. Of course!...Help with the housework, anyone?
I am a big reader of business manuals and success books and I’d like to share one of the common threads that feature in the great majority, which I think can be safely summed up as follows: get help! It’s a simple idea; you focus on what you are good at, your...“I hate housework
but this book enabled me
to at last make some form
of peace with it.”
~ Amazon Review
Gifts for the Undomestic Goddess
