Three years ago, 16th August was my wedding day, excitement, preparations and lots of love and support surrounded us, by my friends and family. The sun was shining , a glass of bubbly in my hand, with wedding dress on I got out of my Mercedes classic drop-top car and met my son at the gates of the beautiful old chapel in Rivington, to marry my life long friend of thirty two years.

You are going to move to your new house. You are stressed as there are so many important things to do, but you struggle with moving boxes. If you tell this to your friend, they will laugh for sure, but the best local moving companies can understand your problem.

Schooling is hard as it is, and the pandemic has not helped the matter either. The cultural shift from campus schooling to "Zoom schooling" has taken its toll on many kids. Several reports have shown that more than half the number of students have reported feeling dissociated from school this year, and there has been a dramatic drop in the grades.

For any relationship to thrive, emotional intimacy is crucial. Emotional intimacy means allowing yourself to connect deeply with your significant other through actions that express trust, feelings, and vulnerabilities.

There is no doubt that most households attend to their weekly cleaning needs – sweeping and mopping the flooring, changing linen, cleaning the windows, and removing dust from under beds and on window sills. 

We all know from our own experience or that of close friends, how traumatic it is to have to cope with paperwork, officials and bureaucracy at a time when we are emotionally vulnerable. And yet, that is precisely the situation that we find ourselves in when there is no funeral plan in place.

Renovating your house can bring in a fresh perspective to it. It happens to all of us. You sit there on your sofa looking at the dull walls or age-old cabinets creaking, and then an idea pops up. You decide you want to renovate your house. Change it and tweak it to make the whole appeal more fresh and beautiful. This can be exciting as you think of installing a new kitchen design, adding the luxury bathing tub to your bathroom, and let’s not even get started on the palettes of colours you get to choose from. 

Loss is a powerful stressor in life; even those going through uncomplicated bereavement are likely to experience many symptoms of anxiety and depression and to undergo physiological changes which reduce the body’s ability to fight off disease. While popular notions suggest a steady and orderly progression of bereavement in stages, people grieve in highly individualised ways.