Life Labs

Motivation, Overwhelm, And Fear Of Failure
One of the benefits of working for an organisation is that someone else has decided the components of your job, and your role is to execute that to the best of your ability. When you work for yourself, you have a lot of decisions to make around what you do and how you...

Recipe: Healthy Cream Cheese Tzatziki
Last May the husband and I decided that we really should do something about becoming a bit healthier. He was pretty good on the exercise front, but we both needed to lose some weight. So I signed up for Lean & Learn, a health and fitness programme designed around...

Writing Inspiration: Seamus Does Chinese New Year
Today's Writing Inspiration was to write about Chinese New Year. Instead of writing, however, I got the idea for a cartoon and this was the end result. Stories come in many forms: they can be told in written prose or poetry, spoken, acted out, or in pictures. My...

Writing Inspiration
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Choice: Friend or Foe?
Back when I was wee, when I had to eat whatever was put in front of me, I longed for the freedom of choice. Freedom to choose not to eat 'that', but to eat something else instead. Freedom to choose to eat at a restaurant, instead of at home. And of course, freedom to...

The Hidden Danger Of Self Comparison
This morning I woke up to a text from my friend, urging me to rise and shine, announcing that it was Fridaaaaay, and thanking me for being a good friend. It was the best text ever. Mainly because I'd woken up feeling really crap about myself. I haven't been writing,...

Recommended Edinburgh Eateries June 2018
I've eaten out a few times this month, and since I've had only good experiences, I thought I'd share them here. Normally I only eat at dog-friendly places, but I had occasion to be out and about without the pooch this month, so I took advantage of that and tried a new...

Kimber’s Wonky Leg
Kimber has a wonky leg. It all began a few weeks ago when she tried to chase someone else's ball. If you're a regular reader of my blog, or of my cartoons, you may already have an inkling that Kimber is very fond of a ball. She has two favourite kinds of ball: a...

Seamus The Tennis-Pro Sheep

Proof That People Buy People
For the last few years, the husband and I have shared a car. For most of the time this worked quite well, but over the last few years he's been using it a lot more, and it'd become a bit of a bone of contention. So when the lease came up for renewal last month, we...