Another monthly round up of a selection of my reads. I have completely forgotten to take pictures this month, which isn’t very helpful! Lisa Congden swimming I loved this book, Lisa’s passion for swimming sings out from the pages, her illustrations are gorgeous and really bring the stories to life. Lisa’s infographics were informative and […]
Category archives: Living Well & disability
Being outdoors
Being outdoors is vital to me, I genuinely think I wouldn’t be as well as I would if I didn’t get outdoors. It’s kept me moving and walking on a daily basis, even when I am struggling with my health. I may have to use a wheelchair in town and on hard surfaces, but outdoors, […]
Welcome!
Hello, I’m Jen Farrant. Consultant | Writer | Photographer. My blog is my space to experiment with thoughts, ideas and photos. Posts tend to fall into broad categories of: Creativity Living well & disability Music Photography Research & writing Strategic & creative thinking. Scroll down to read the blog as a whole, or click through to read about my work: Consultant | Writer | Photographer | […]
#AprilLove2016 Dear books…
Dear books… You have been my refuge and my friends for so many years. There are some of you I have read so many times I hardly need to pick up the book in the first place, the Discworld springs to mind as a particularly good example. I love travelling through you, getting lost in you and […]
#AprilLove2016 Dear morning…
Dear Morning Oh! How I love you mornings. Quite frankly you just aren’t long enough for me, there is so much that I want to cram into this sacred time that I want to get up earlier and earlier. I try not to cram and not to get up even earlier, as I think you […]
Buying mindfulness
I am quite good at removing myself from mailing lists, but I had forgotten to do so for Not on The High Street after I recently bought something from them. In my inbox last week landed an email entitled ‘Shop mindfulness’. It detailed all the things you could buy for mindfulness – special notebooks, hand […]
Candles and Coffee
Over the Christmas holidays I made a couple of discoveries that I wanted to share with you. I used to love incense sticks, but I find them too overpowering these days and the smoke is a bit too much. Not to mention it makes the whole house smell and the computers suck in the smoke […]
Dedication
I’m fed up with seeing articles around the internet based on the idea that five minutes of meditation a day is all you need. Or hearing people say that five minutes of spiritual practice is all you need. Yes, five minutes is better than nothing and five minutes is a great place to start when […]
It’s all part of the process
It’s all part of the process…. if that rings a bell, it is a lovely song by Morcheeba, who I once saw live in a flea pit in Leeds. Skye is even more beautiful in real life than she looks in her photos. As a writer, as a musician, as someone who is always striving […]
Yousician
I found this amazing app – yousician. It is fabulous! I bought myself a ukulele about a year and a half ago and have been noodling around on it, taking it on holiday and playing a few times a month. My focus has been on my flute and the ukulele was just something for fun. […]