Knilly Frickers

Cards on the table....I've been a bit of a misery guts for the past few weeks.   I feel like for most of January, my personality has been somewhat switched off. I'm not really sure why.  I don't know if the job hunt is getting me down, if I'm spending too much time indoors and on the computer.  It might be the lack of chocolate in my diet, it could be the countless hours of reality TV my eyes have witnessed over the month of January - but what I am sure of is that I need to snap out of it. For someone who talks a lot about being positive and looking for the sunshine, I haven't done a whole lot of it lately.   It's possible that's down to the fact its currently winter in Scotland and the sun is currently shielded by an abundance of rain filled clouds - that doesn't actually sound too dissimilar to the description of summer in Scotland, but at least it's usually a little brighter! January is gone, well at time of typing its the 30th so there is still a...

Dear Wee Rachel,  Sleep is a beautiful thing! You don’t realise it right now, but you have this amazing ability to sleep at night, to just switch off your brain, lie down and sleep.   Sometimes your head might be full of crap that finds its way into your dreams but the actual sleeping part you have down to a tee.  In a few years, sleep will seem like a story, a fairy-tale like Cinderella or Snow White (I thought Sleeping Beauty would be a cruel example, but hey, at least that bitch got some sleep!). I don’t know why sleeping became a problem, it might be the fizzy juice that you drink (I know you love Irn Bru, but your insides are probably orange by now, cut down a bit!) it could be all the time you spend in front of the computer, the TV or your phone (FYI, phones are cooler in the future, but bloody expensive!).   Whatever it was, it became an issue and it’s one you’ll fight for a while, I’m still fighting it now. I’m writing you this letter because I’m struggling t...

I've seen a few people on Youtube do lifestyle/product 'empties' videos where they show the empty packaging and talk about the product they bought and whether they enjoyed it, the pros/cons etc I'm fairly new to the whole 'dairy free' thing but thought I would give it a try for some dairy free products I've been using since cutting out dairy and getting a firm answer on the whole 'milk makes me ill' thing.  I live in the Scotland, so I'm not sure what the availability of everything I've mentioned is like further afield than the UK.  If you know of any brands or products I haven't mentioned - feel free to suggest in the comments!  It might work as an interesting blog post or it might be crap but I figured I'd go with it! Rather than focus on every dairy free product I've tried I thought I'd focus on the main things I've really been missing!   I might do some more posts focusing on specific things but the first thing I'm...