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  • A Marvelous Way to Waste Some Time!

    Now you might think that with the website launch looming, I’d be frantically working on making sure everything is perfect and spending every spare moment thinking about it. Of course, you would be entirely wrong! Partly because my bizniz partner and I are meeting on Friday to go through the admin, so I’ll have the…

  • Chill Out

    Time’s might be tough, there may be lots of things to worry about and fret about, but how does that fretfulness help you to survive the tough times? It doesn’t…it makes it even worse. Remember always that you are a resourceful, wonderful human being and you can cope with whatever life throws at you. And…

  • Love’s Labour’s Lost

    Last week I treated myself to a trip to Stratford to see Love’s Labour’s Lost. I had a standing ticket, but queued with the returns people to see if I could get a nice seat. This also turned into a fabulous experience! There were about a dozen of us (I was last!) to begin with…

  • OnTheBeach – Share Your Gift

    We all have gifts that we can share with the world, and one of the greatest tragedies is that we don’t. We keep ourselves small, we are self-deprecating and lack 100% self belief – and the world loses. You think I’m exaggerating? Well, let’s forget about this ‘just’ being about you for a minute, and…

  • Classical Music With Shining Eyes

    Tears, laughter, chopin, buttocks and shining eyes – what more can you ask for in a talk? A friend of mine directed me to this video, and it totally took my breath away! Enjoy…and let me know what you think! Love Donna.x

  • Hold Your Dreams Gently

    Our dreams, goals and ambitions are enormously important to us, so sometimes we hold on too tight and burst the bubble! Treat your dreams as the precious, fragile things that they are. Don’t expose them to criticism too early from cynics, and believe in them. If you have the dream, you have all you need…

  • Love’s Labour’s Lost – YAY!

    A couple of months ago I went to see Dr Who (David Tennant) in Hamlet at the Crescent Theatre in Stratford. I discovered that he was also in Love’s Labour’s Lost – a Shakespeare play that is rarely performed (at Stratford at least). It was sold out, but you can sometimes get a ticket if…

  • Count Your Blessings.

    The happiest people on earth realise how much they have (even when they have ‘nothing’ in material terms). How often do you count your blessings? Make a point of listing 5 things daily that you are grateful for – especially when you feel there is nothing to be grateful for! For example, you have the…

  • OnTheBeach – Will This Still Matter Tomorrow?

    A note from Donna Since the gig I went to last Tuesday, my throat has been playing up and my voice has run the range between Minnie Mouse and that woman with a husky, low, smoker’s voice off Coronation Street of 20 years ago – can’t remember her name! I was listening to the messages…

  • What is it about gigs that always leaves me hoarse?

    Well, the obvious answer to that question is that I sing and cheer along and don’t stop talking even though it is LOUD! Tuesday night Feeder were playing at the Academy in Birmingham…and they were pretty ordinary! I have seen them a few times before, and seen them BRILLIANT most of the time, so for…