Category: Articles

  • OnTheBeach – Please Sir, The Dog Ate My Newsletter

    A note from Donna Tomorrow I am off to Barcelona!!!! Mostly I am enormously excited, but there is also a tiny frisson of utter terror – I am not the best flier in the world. If they’d let me drive, I’d be fine (can’t speak for the other passengers though!). So tomorrow early evening UK…

  • OnTheBeach – Playtime

    A note from Donna As you read this, I am probably getting insanely excited about going to see David Tennant and Patrick Stewart in Hamlet in Stratford tonight. I saw King Lear last year with Ian McKellan and it was spell-binding, so I have high expectations of this one. I love to have a nice…

  • OnTheBeach – A Day at the Beach

    A note from Donna Well, it’s all going on at my YouTube channel – not only have I answered the first of the ‘Ask Donna’ questions, I announce here a new website with a new way to get in touch with me – www.blissquest.com, and share with you some sarcasm from my guidance – who…

  • OnTheBeach – Pure Presence

    A note from Donna So, V festival was muddy, wet, cold, muddy, and there was GREAT music. Fortunately the music made up for the weather – well, for me at least, my friend was last seen muttering ‘never ever ever ever again’ as she stamped mud off her boots and jeans!! The fact that I…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • OnTheBeach – All is Inter-Connected

    – A note from Donna – Wondering what I could write in this bit this week, I decided that despite the fact that we’re having lots of weather here in the UK, I really couldn’t keep embracing the British obsession with the weather and keep talking about it. So I pootled through a few back…