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  • OnTheBeach – You Should Do This Challenge

    – A note from Donna – As you read this, I will most likely be asleep – even if it’s afternoon in the UK – yes, I am that lazy…but I have a good reason this time. Yesterday (if you’re reading this on Monday) I went to the V festival! I am so ridiculously excited…

  • MIA

    Hello lovely readers!!! I am sorry, I have been missing in action a lot this month – just busy busy busy! A million and one ideas which never got made into blog posts…what a waste!! The big highlight this week was the V festival in Staffs – Mud, Music, Rain, Sunshine, Mud, more Music and…

  • OnTheBeach – Don’t Let the B’s Grind You Down

    My parents have a saying “Don’t let the b*stards grind you down” – and there are times when this is the most pertinent advice that can be given! Because this is exactly what happens if you’re not vigilant – years and years of criticism, minor annoyances and unsupportiveness can just grind down your good humour…

  • August 2008 Book Recommendation – Paulo Coelho

    I recently re-read Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemist’ and found it such a great read that I am now reading it a third time! A classic ‘quest tale’, it follows the fortunes of a shepherd who leaves his flock to go after his treasure. Chock full of references to ‘the soul of the world’, ‘omens’ and…

  • Museums of Poverty

    “One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.” — Muhammad Yunus founder of the Grameen Bank & 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate In an e-mail from Rebecca Fine of www.scienceofgettingrich.net I received this quote. Isn’t that the most wonderful idea? That our granchildren would not be able to see…

  • OnTheBeach – I am Where I Am And Where I Am Needs No Excuses

    My apologies for both stealing and changing the words of a well known cheesy choon. It’s usually ‘I am what I am’ but today I want to talk about where you am. Where you are in your life specifically. I suspect that wherever you are, you’d quite like to be somewhere else – relationship wise,…

  • OnTheBeach – Don’t It Make You Feel Good

    What was the last piece of ‘advice’ you were given? Was it to get out more, to work harder, to go on a diet, to sort yourself out, to be more focused? We’re all surrounded by well-meaning people who give us advice, sometimes asked for, sometimes unasked. A lot of advice is useful, relevant and…

  • What’s this DonnaOnTheBeach Business About

  • The House of 1000 Mirrors

    Long ago in a small, far away village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears…

  • OnTheBeach – Let’s See What You’re Doing Wrong

    – A note from Donna – Apparently there might be a recession coming in the UK in 3 months time. And there might not. I get really irate with the media, because they sensationalise EVERYTHING, and their stories seem to me designed to frighten people and bring about the very conditions they are scare-mongering about.…