I tend to find the first 2km the hardest but then I get into it and always finish a run, happy. My goal over the next 6 weeks is to reach 13miles.
Wish me luck,
Nina
xoxo
Running Girl
Tuesday, 26 July 2016
I keep thinking back to my first run when I ran for twenty minutes - to now - running 8 miles in an hour and a half. And the best bit about running, is just how great it is making me feel. I am more energetic and motivated and determined to push myself further, not just with my running, but in all aspects of my life.
WOMAN OF THE WEEK - GRACE F VICTORY
Monday, 18 July 2016
With a bout of insomnia often comes discovery. Mine was at 3am this morning when I delved into BBC I-player and discovered Grace F Victory. I was immediately on the phone to Nina (at a respectful 9o'clock) and insisted she get onto iPlayer now.
Ms Victory is exactly that: victorious; plus courageous, witty, intelligent and she has something to say - a real honest, straight-talking woman. If I see another bugatti, bulgarri, borlotti frekkin-bingo-vegan bean meal pop up on my recipe search (btw BBC goodfood please stay) I will personally imprison Gwyneth Paltrow and force feed her cheese! She started this somewhat.
Grace steps into the world of clean eating and uncovers what we secretly suspected all along. If you can't keep up with the current flurry of green domestic goddesses and walk around like a skeleton holding on to your last ripple of flesh, watch this. You'll feel a whole lot better, and triumphant in the fact you can sit down on your bottom without shredding the cushions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p040430l/clean-eatings-dirty-secrets
Grace's investigation into the science behind starving yourself of food groups is an eye-opener and truly fascinating. Apparently our bones do need to do something - they prop you up for a start! Vegan days good, vegan lifestyle hmmm.... you must be aware of what your body needs and do it sensibly.
Orthorexia has led to a multi million pound business that seems to be (wait for it) led by the people
who suffer orthorexia, and no they don't look healthy; charlatans generally do look similar to the cat that got the cream and gorged themselves for five hours straight. Grace's direct questions gets them all in a tither because they have to be fact, because fact = truth, which they all struggle with. She qualified in nutrition whilst filming, some green gurus have that same qualification which can lead to this evangelistic preaching of don't eat anything that civilisation has ate for thousands of years... it's toxic don't you know! The diploma itself is as hard to get as melted ice-cream on a sunny day.
So well done Grace, we love it and you have two new fans. Beauty comes from the mind and that's true beauty. Stretching of the mind, all good marks wherever they are. I do believe woman have acquired the power of thought these days, regardless of Barbie and Disney, Vogue images to reality trash attempts to dumb us back in time. Shocking eh!
BTW coming back to the superficial, could you do my eyebrows? Your's just awesome, mine tend to look for gardening implements these days!
Ms Victory is exactly that: victorious; plus courageous, witty, intelligent and she has something to say - a real honest, straight-talking woman. If I see another bugatti, bulgarri, borlotti frekkin-bingo-vegan bean meal pop up on my recipe search (btw BBC goodfood please stay) I will personally imprison Gwyneth Paltrow and force feed her cheese! She started this somewhat.
Grace steps into the world of clean eating and uncovers what we secretly suspected all along. If you can't keep up with the current flurry of green domestic goddesses and walk around like a skeleton holding on to your last ripple of flesh, watch this. You'll feel a whole lot better, and triumphant in the fact you can sit down on your bottom without shredding the cushions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p040430l/clean-eatings-dirty-secrets
Grace's investigation into the science behind starving yourself of food groups is an eye-opener and truly fascinating. Apparently our bones do need to do something - they prop you up for a start! Vegan days good, vegan lifestyle hmmm.... you must be aware of what your body needs and do it sensibly.
Orthorexia has led to a multi million pound business that seems to be (wait for it) led by the people
who suffer orthorexia, and no they don't look healthy; charlatans generally do look similar to the cat that got the cream and gorged themselves for five hours straight. Grace's direct questions gets them all in a tither because they have to be fact, because fact = truth, which they all struggle with. She qualified in nutrition whilst filming, some green gurus have that same qualification which can lead to this evangelistic preaching of don't eat anything that civilisation has ate for thousands of years... it's toxic don't you know! The diploma itself is as hard to get as melted ice-cream on a sunny day.
So well done Grace, we love it and you have two new fans. Beauty comes from the mind and that's true beauty. Stretching of the mind, all good marks wherever they are. I do believe woman have acquired the power of thought these days, regardless of Barbie and Disney, Vogue images to reality trash attempts to dumb us back in time. Shocking eh!
BTW coming back to the superficial, could you do my eyebrows? Your's just awesome, mine tend to look for gardening implements these days!
ROMANCE & SMUT
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Not bad at all NO. 6!
#6My DisOrganised Life
Author: Nina Whyle
A viral video of drunkenness and vomiting over a policeman is the stuff of nightmares, and so is living back home with your religious, nutty parents. Fed up with life not going her way and turning quietly insane, Eve Poots comes up with a plan. Well more of a list of “things to do while I’m still twenty-something”.
Six months later, and the list is working its power: she is now living with her new boyfriend, junior doctor Adam, and working as an assistant to TV producer Alastair on a reality show – life really is on the up.
But then it all starts to crumble and she soon realises that what the list should have really said was:
1. Awful colleague hell-bent in making your life agonising – check
2. Unplanned engagement – check
3. Lusting for dashing TV director when you have a perfectly decent boyfriend at home - check
4. Seeking help from a sex therapist – check
5. Growing a back-bone - pending
Has her life suddenly turned into a TV melodrama of its own?
HONG KONG BOOK LAUNCH - SKY HIGH
My Disorganised Life is certainly jet setting at the moment. Love it when you send me these, keep it up. The Ultimate Travel Book! Courtesy of the Danglish xxx
AMAZING REVIEW - My DisOrganised Life
Sunday, 3 July 2016
That's one Brunette who definitely wasn't bored! Thank you so much Maeve xxx
http://bit.ly/29eYJRE Here's the link of what our lovely brunette really thought about the book:)
http://bit.ly/29eYJRE Here's the link of what our lovely brunette really thought about the book:)
EU Referendum - NW's non political POV
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Hello GREAT BRITAIN, THE WORLD & more poignantly, lovely EUROPE,
Clare and I want to have a chin wag with last weeks topsy turvy turn of events… oops.
We are PROUD to be British with our mixed up heritage derived from lands across Europe - a little variety makes a great partnership! Keeps it fresh to have difference backgrounds. We are European by default, all of us in Europe have our quirky ways - that's far more interesting than being homogenous.
G.B is a nation that celebrates all people and all cultures across the Globe. No doubt if the Aliens came and landed in England they'd know more about obsessional tea brewing than our policy making by the time they scooted back into hyperspace. They'd show us a worm hole and in turn we'd ask about the weather and if tea was an intergalactic beverage; then stuff our pockets with teabags for the journey with a hip flask hidden from sight!
We are a nation of immigrants, eccentrics and most importantly, diversity - and the better for it. There is no room for those televised bigots they cherry pick for sensualist news headlines. They do not represent us in Europe or the world. We love you all. We are terrible at languages but all for your entertainment; those accents cause great screen play to be written - Mr Peter Sellers... the pickings are self explanotory to citizens of the world.
We are the TEA-DRINKERS, warm beer swillers, WINE drinkers, the queuers, the weather watchers and the Sunday Roast Makers. The curry nights and the benders, the PIMMS in the rain and the G&T's, the pomp and peculiar.
What would we do without the French - c'est chic. Champagne, Hermes, Chanel, the list is endless. The whole area of Bordeaux in particular;) You're incredibly talented Chefs who live in GB... nom nom - merci beaucoup.
ITALIAN EVERYTHING. J'adore Italy. Just want to make that clear.
Germany - some of the best times of our lives happened in Germany. Love it all. Berlin too cool for words. Not enough time in the blog.
Chin up. Grab a tipple and lets look to the future however it unfolds. Lets muddle through as ever.
Generally we love the world and all who sail round her, but especially Canada at the moment. (book bias!)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #123 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance > Romantic Comedy
STARS AND STATS THE CANADIAN WAY
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Poppy has graced the shores of Canada, goodness knows where she landed!
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #279 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance > Romantic Comedy
- Miss Poots is squarely in Calgary causing havoc.
- Average Customer Review:
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #241 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance > Romantic Comedy
