Clean Living Chronicles

Coffee & Catch Up | Taking Time To Unplug

December 12, 2017 By Amanda 1 Comment

I took a sabbatical for the month of November and as is always the case the time seems to have has flown by in an instant. I was thinking of going away somewhere for at least part of the month, if not all of it, but in the end I decided to stay home and explore my new home town with a fresh set of eyes. In effect I decided to play tourist in and around the beautiful city of Cape Town which coincidentally was nominated as the greatest city on Earth after a poll of 90,000 readers of The Telegraph (not a bad deal that I didn’t have to travel overseas in order to experience a world class city)….

DIY | Zana Screen Printing Workshop

I love being creative and expressing myself through art, it totally relaxes me and it’s fun to see what the final outcome of any project is. I’ve wanted to try my hand at screen printing for the longest time so I was on the hunt for a workshop to attend for the longest time….

Travel | My Apartment In Paris

I can’t believe it’s just over two years since I jetted of to Paris for the first time solo to fulfil a lifelong dream of exploring the city of lights. There has been a subsequent trip which I’ll save for another post, but for now I’m reminiscing about my 2015 visit. When I decided to…

40 Before 40 | The List….

Before I reveal my list of 40 (realistic) things I’d like to do before 40 I’d like to frame this post with some of the research I did into the whole ’40 before 40’ concept. I think the idea started a few years ago while browsing the web and finding people who had started their…

Coffee & Catch up | Doing Midlife Gracefully

I’m sitting writing this at my dining room table looking out over the valley in front of me. I’m surrounded by the people I love and my heart is happy. The last few months have been a hell of a ride and I can honestly say I’ve been hanging on for dear live hoping not…

Running My First Half Marathon

After spending most of 2016 running 10km races (and psyching myself out of out of a 21km) I decided that 2017 would be the year to smash a few mental barriers and run my first half marathon i.e. 21.1km. Entries opened for the Dischem half marathon toward the end of 2016 and I was running…

Confessions of a Serial 10km Runner

I started 2016 with a simple goal in mind: Run or compete in at least one sporting event a month for the year. I didn’t really have a distance or specific goad in mind – just that I wanted to get out there and have some fun! I started off easy with a valentine 5km…