Category Archives: Life

Plans

By Naomi | Published: 10/12/2010
What could be just about the best birthday present money could never buy? How about time? Sounds impossible, but that’s just what i was given for my birthday. Simon made the decision that he would work for four days a week and I would have Fridays. He has the girls and I have a whole [...]
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Forty

By Naomi | Published: 03/12/2010
I turned 40 last weekend. Initially I was keen to just let the day sneak past with no fuss. But apparently turning 40 is a bit of a milestone and there was an expectation that the event would be marked by some kind of celebration. So I relented. And actually I was glad, because it [...]
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Choice

By Naomi | Published: 26/09/2010
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything on The Minimal List. No particular reason other than life has just taken over a little recently. I mean real life, you know, the important one you actually take part in. We’ve been having family time, surely the most important time of all. At the start of [...]
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House

By Naomi | Published: 03/07/2010
What makes us live within our means or push ourselves to our financial limit and even exceed it? I grew up with parents, well my mother in particular, for whom the thought of being in debt was horrifying. They never had much money (enough, but no more) and with that we had a holiday every [...]
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Death

By Naomi | Published: 25/03/2010
Morbid though it is, I’ve been thinking a bit about death. More specifically its use in encouraging people to think about life – “Live every day as if it’s your last!”. I don’t know about you but I find death a very hard topic to contemplate. I don’t feel at ease with it, I feel, [...]
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