Whilst I was sleeping….

It's been a while. I'd like to say I've been ridiculously busy, but really I have mainly been eating cakes. Cakes at home, cakes out, all the cakes, all the time. Despite my permanently sticky fingers, there has been progress on other fronts. I enjoyed using my V&A perpetual planner the first week, but I…

So I fell

Do you like that background? Today is officially the first day of my holiday, although I always consider the weekends to be as much as part of the holiday as the actual days off work. I have been set an interesting challenge for my week off: to sample tea and cakes somewhere different every day.…

Whole pile of planners

Pile of planners Oh, what a week. I had to give myself a stern talking-to on Friday night because the whole planner situation has spiralled way out of control. I took a different planner with me to work each day. On Friday, I took two! It just has to stop. I decided, first of all,…

I thought it was the pens

Out with the old…. I’ve had a touch of post-Christmas ennui and, as you do, I started to blame it on the pens. I wasn’t using them as much as usual so perhaps I wasn’t loving the pens I had inked, or the inks themselves. I’d been using the same few pens for almost two…

Make it easy on yourself

Or, goal-setting for the timid. I have been wittering away for weeks about goal-setting. I’ve mentioned it out loud a few times, but there’s been a much deeper internal monologue and I can’t count the number of times it has appeared on my list of actions for the day. I thought that I was shying…

Intentions

I've been considering a change or two in my planning system in preparation for next year, and one of these has been to rethink how I'm going to use the week to a page diary inserts. My original intention was to interleave a blank lined page between each, thus carrying on with the system that's…