Author Archives: Amanda Foxon-Hill

Life as a bucket filler.

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Amanda Foxon-Hill

While explaining to a good friend how I feel about by work/ life balance I came up with a bucket analogy – My life is like being in a timed  game of ‘fill the buckets’ where there is a) Very … Continue reading →

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Dear PMS, why don’t you like me?

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Amanda Foxon-Hill

Up until now I always felt lucky to have never ‘suffered’ from PMS (Pre Menstral Syndrome).  That time of the month has always come and gone without much of a bother. No bunnies got boiled, no kids screamed at and … Continue reading →

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Vulnerability As Sung By Pink

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Amanda Foxon-Hill

As you know I have been doing a bit of marble polishing of late and while working on my own mental health I’ve found ted (thanks to Linda at Mind Mastery who has helped me with both the useful resources and … Continue reading →

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Doing things for fun.

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Amanda Foxon-Hill

So yesterday I wrote a blog about how serious life had become, how I had lost the art of ‘doing things for fun’ and how that had become very tiring.  Well, after that I went away and worked on developing … Continue reading →

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Your Mojo Is Not A Boomerang, It Won’t Just Come Back.

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Amanda Foxon-Hill

I have no evidence to prove this little factoid as I made it up myself but don’t think that I pulled it out of nowhere. Oh no, that came from deep within my sub-consciousness, it was a message from me … Continue reading →

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Don’t mind me I’m busy standing still

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Amanda Foxon-Hill

After talking to a number of friends over the last few weeks it appears that we are at that stage in life when things are a bit too much.  We are not young enough to have the boundless energy, time … Continue reading →

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Out and About With Amongst Sisters – October Markets

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Amanda Foxon-Hill

Like many self-published authors I have found that selling  (or at least trying to sell) the book is hard.  I know that while the Amongst Sisters isn’t going to be everyones cup of tea it isn’t rubbish as everyone who … Continue reading →

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Sorry guys but I can’t ‘like’ you any more….

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Amanda Foxon-Hill

I subscribe to what I am beginning to believe is an unhealthy number of ‘good living’ web pages and am therefore introduced to a stream of healthy tips, tricks and tid  bits.   However, I am finding these updates increasingly depressing … Continue reading →

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Suck It Up Princess

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Amanda Foxon-Hill

That’s such an Aussie saying, uttered at its very best by drag queens whose heels are killing them after a night on the town but which flows equally well from the mouths of babes from the burbs.  Sucking it up … Continue reading →

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I am an adult because…….

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Amanda Foxon-Hill

Yesterday the Uk’s Daily Telegraph ran a ‘space filler’ article entitled ‘The 50 signs that you are a grown up” and even though I read it thinking it was rather silly I felt compelled to think through what was written……. … Continue reading →

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