Our Journals

Category: "Our Journals"

  1. Did you know your mum had a life before you were around?!

    Sometimes it is not always easy to realise that your own mum had an amazing life before you came along. Yes she really did do things without you! She did some incredible things and has built up a wealth of experience ... We don't have access to your mum's memories or experiences, however, FROM YOU TO ME has created some...

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  2. “Born In The …” Shortlisted For Three Gift Of The Year Awards

    Born in the  . . . is a recently launched range of gift books that celebrate the decade of birth and the decade you grew up in. The range has been shortlisted for three categories at this years 2023 Gift Of The Year Awards. Helen Stephens, creative director said “These books took the authors Lucy and Steve nearly two years...

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  3. An Advent Calendar With A Difference – This Is One You’ll Want To Keep

    We're passionate about sharing memories and making them too. That’s why we’re so excited about the launch of our brand new Personalised Countdown to Christmas Advent Calendar which will help you do just that, whether you treat a loved one or yourself.   In a world where advent calendars are getting not only bigger, but also more expensive, how about...

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  4. A Journal Through Treatment On Your Road To Recovery

    This NEW journal, Self Care ... A Journal Through Treatment, will help you to feel empowered and take control of your treatment journey so that you can focus on what's important . . . you! Going through any treatment can be difficult. It disrupts daily life, can be stressful and may be painful. As well as care from medical specialists...

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  5. Traditionally Celebrating Your Culture . . .

    Growing up in South Wales in the 1970’s, there was always great excitement towards the end of February as we prepared for Saint David’s Day on the 1st March. The morning of St David’s Day, we would dress in traditional welsh costume, which smelt unpleasantly of moth balls, and head to school like a procession of Diddy Men. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diddy_Men  ...

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  6. A Story Of 15 Years Running A Business . . . Would I Do It Again?

    If someone suggested you start your own business, but you’d have to negotiate a global recession, 4 trade shows where you were snowed in, a book fair when hardly anyone turned up because of a volcanic ash cloud and that your MD (and partner) would be diagnosed with, and have to go through treatment for, cancer at the same time...

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  7. Dear 2022

    Dear 2022 It’s great that you’ve arrived. We certainly hope you are better than your predecessors 2021 and 2020 which, were to be honest, pants. Here are our hopes and wishes, from you to me! We hope to not have to learn another Greek alphabet letter, to never hear the words transmissible, furlough or lockdown ever again and for the only...

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  8. Absence makes the heart grow fonder

    What a year.  Hopefully one that will never be repeated. It has changed the way we live and the way we interact with each other. Outside of my own home, I personally miss engaging with my family and friends.  I miss the big things like being able to meet, to talk face to face, to hug or seeing their real...

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  9. The Elephant in the Room - Guest Blog by Jane Duncan Rogers

    The Elephant in the Room - Guest Blog by Jane Duncan Rogers
    Right now, there is probably an elephant lurking in your room. It’ll be either deeply hidden behind the furniture, or able to be seen but stuck in the corner of the room, or in some cases, it might be right in the middle of the room, and people pass around it. I call this elephant End of Life Ellie. Otherwise...

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  10. Do you know your 'real' Dad?

    With Father’s Day approaching in many countries of the world, I have been reflecting on my life as Dad to my daughter who has just celebrated her 11th birthday this month. I can't believe it is June already, and I certainly can't believe she is into her 12th year. Time flies by and it seems to fly by even quicker...

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