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Book Review: Nobody’s Girl, By Tania Crosse

I’m so excited to share this heart-warming story with you today! Nobody’s Girl by Tania Crosse is a fantastic book full of family drama, tragedy, friendship and love. You will follow wonderfully relatable characters through the most trying times of their lives – prepare to be transported on a rollercoaster of emotional events. Loved this book! The boom years immediately after the Great War bring nothing but happiness for wealthy industrialist Wigmore Stratfield-Whyte and his wife Clarissa – until tragedy…

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Book Review, Annabeth's War By Jessica Greyson, ChronicallyHopeful

Book Review: Annabeth’s War, by Jessica Greyson

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In my first book review I’m sharing my thoughts on this lovely novella by Jessica Greyson. Annabeth’s War was her debut work and it happens to be the first book I read from beginning to end on my new Kindle! It’s an exciting tale of a young girl’s quest to save her loved ones and her country from an evil Lord that has his eyes on the throne while the King is away at war and the fascinating characters she…

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Coal Tits First visitors at Bird Feeder, Breakfast With Birds, ChronicallyHopeful

Coal Tits – The First Brave Visitors At Our Bird Feeder

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After moving to our new house last week, we hung our first bird feeder out on Monday and waited (im)patiently for the birds to come eat, but they didn’t. No birds to be seen at all. We were disappointed, but I knew that they would come – they just had to discover the spread first. Photo By @domlimphoto After days of silence and stillness in the garden, on Wednesday morning, a brave little birdie came hopping along the fence to…

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Breakfast With Birds: Enjoying Nature From Indoors

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Welcome to our garden! We have just moved into a lovely new house and this one has a garden! I am beyond excited about being able to see the gorgeous views of nature from different windows around the house. I have always enjoyed bird-watching and nature walks, so this is an incredible joy for me. We hope to learn more about the inhabitants of our garden, and do our part to support them and protect them year round. I will…

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The SIPB Summer Blog Tag: My Summertime Favourites

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One of my favourite things about the blogging community are the seasonal tagging events. These blog tags are like a game of “20 Questions” and “Tag – You’re It!” rolled into one. You generally answer a bunch of themed questions or write a post based on a theme or prompt and then tag a few people to take part. It’s a wonderful way to get to know each other better and a fun escape from the usual topics we write…

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My Summer Survival Kit & Top Tips To Beat The Heat. Spoonie Gift Guide, Part 4

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Summer can be a really difficult time for people with chronic illness. Regulating body temperature is a common problem. Add in a rare summer heat wave and you have a recipe for horrific flares including utter exhaustion, weakness, headaches and so much discomfort and sweating! So I’m sharing my 10 top tips to beat the heat and survive the summer months. If you have a chronically ill friend you’d like to help out this summer, I am sure they would…

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How To Get More Links On Instagram Without Using LinkTree

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If you are a blogger with an Instagram account, you will be very aware of the frustrating limit they have placed on us. I love Instagram, it is probably my favourite social media platform, but I must admit that the one-link-only rule has been very frustrating over the years. In this post, though, I am going to show you how I have overcome this obstacle and gained more click-throughs to my blog without using another app like LinkTree. Update 2024:…

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My 2018 WEGO Health Award Nomination – Best In Show: Blog

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I am so excited to share this news with you! I have been nominated for the 2018 WEGO Health Award in the Best In Show: Blog category! I first heard about WEGO Health Awards last year when one of the lovely warriors I follow on Instagram was nominated for her advocacy efforts. I later joined them on Twitter for a few of their live chats too. I thought it was a great idea to give recognition to these chronic illness…

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Sunshine Blogger Award 2018, ChronicallyHopeful

Sunshine Blogger Award, June 2018

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Chronically Hopeful has been nominated for another blog award! The Sunshine Blogger Award is awarded to bloggers by bloggers, in recognition of their contribution to the community. In particular the Sunshine Blogger Award is awarded to those bloggers whose posts bring a bit of sunshine to the community by spreading joy and positivity.  I am honoured to have been selected. Who Nominated Me? A big thank you goes to Kristine from Kristine’s Blog who nominated me in April. Thank you…

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Time to reassess my condition ME cfs, ChronicallyHopeful

Reassessing My Condition, Setting Realistic Goals

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It’s time for another personal update. Time to reassess and set realistic goals. This month has been so much harder than I anticipated. Somehow I imagined that summer would bring better health and more energy along with sunnier days and warmer temperatures, but it hasn’t really. I have spent so much time in bed! Despite this, there have been some exciting things happening here. Exciting for me anyway, not sure anybody else would define it as such! Haha…  There are…

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