Lessons learnt from my indoor garden (humans are just big plants)

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Sometimes we all go out shopping and return home with something you never set out to buy or even actually need. For some people it is trainers, for others the newest handbag, for me it is the humble indoor plant. It started with a tiny cactus with a beautiful pink flower on the top which sadly I killed within a couple of months. Undeterred I decided this untimely death would not be the end of my plant parentage.
Take 2 was a medium Echeveria Imbricata, also known as a blue rose, which I loved…too much. Water is a fantastic thing for plants; however, you can have too much of a good thing and plant 2 was loved to death.
So far, I had killed 2 ‘unkillable’ plants and my green fingers seemed to be more gangrenous than horticultural….

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Fear of Failure, Being Seen Trying and Pam from The Office US

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We don’t want to be seen failing. We want to be seen to be perfectly competent all the time. It’s not pleasant when everyone knows you were dumped, or you went for a job and didn’t get it, or you failed an exam. It is embarrassing. It conflicts against this perfect persona we want to put out into the world. But guess what? You will fail, you will be rejected, and things will not always go perfectly for you. Welcome to life lads.

But should that fear stop us from trying?

To get what you want in life you have to take risks. To have the possibility of suceeding, we have to put ourselves in the vulnerable position that we might fail. Like Pam we have to be brave and take a chance.

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Travelling from your Sofa- Michael Palins, Noodles and a Good Old Book

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Now if you have stumbled onto this blog thinking this will be a step-by-step guide on how to get around the travel-guidelines during lockdown you are in the wrong place. Here at Ramblings Round the World we stan those quarantine-abiding queens. Big up Chris Whitty!
Instead we are getting a little creative….
Obviously, we can’t travel right now, but we can *drumroll* travel from home! So put your passport away, we are not going anywhere (but on the plus side this involves absolutely no packing which is definitely the worst part of any journey)!

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Authenticity, Staying Weird and Bob’s Burgers

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Throughout the show Tina is astoundingly weird. She writes ‘erotic-friend fiction’ starring zombies, she has an imaginary pet horse called Jerico at age 13 and her passion for the girl-scouts is unreal. It is safe to say Tina is not ‘cool’ by teen standards. But we love her. We love her weirdness, her obsession with butts and her awkward personality.
In a way, I suppose we can all relate to Tina…

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My 9 Mental Health Hacks In and Out of Quarantine

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There is no denying that quarantine has been tough on everyone. The importance of good mental health is constantly emphasises, but what does this mean? …
Well, I can only tell you about what has worked for me in my pursuit of better mental health, but I genuinely hope at least one of these suggestions works in some small way for someone out there. The suggestions I have listed below make up what I like to call my ‘Mental Health Toolkit’. I like to think of it like Bob the Builder’s tool belt personally. My Mental Health Toolkit is a number of various techniques I can call upon to keep my brain in tip top shape when things get a bit tricky!

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Female solo travel in Central America

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Solo female travel has always been slightly taboo.
And Latin America has always stuck out to me as one of those place you just don’t go alone as a woman. I remember being 18 and I was thinking about travelling to Latin America so I asked a friend who had recently come back from South America. He said to me, explicitly, Latin America is not a place for a woman alone. That well and truly threw a big old bucket of water over the fire that was a dream trip to Peru for a while.
Fast forward a couple of years and there I was living in Nicaragua alone working with a charity after well and truly saying fuck it, I’m not going to wait for someone to do this with me, I’m doing it, even if it means I’m going at it alone!

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How to Workaway like a pro

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Workaway works on the simple premise; “will work for food and shelter”… The twist is this work is not zzzz yawn worthy. You can work doing whatever! For example, I have used workaway to work on a llama farm in Yorkshire, a yoga retreat in Andalucia, teach children in the barrios of Nicaragua and work as a bartender/tour guide in a hostel in Guatemala. The possibilities are literally endless.

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