The whole point of being organised is so that not all is lost when something unexpected happens. The beauty of planning and preparedness is that (believe it or not) it gives you a lot of flexibility later.
Case in point: in an act of complete stupidity last week I fell over and landed entirely (and heavily) [...]

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I recently posted the first in a series of I don’t know how many yet, on how to plan your meals.
This is the second part in the series. This is the bit where you will write a master list. This list is not your weekly shopping list. This list forms the basis [...]

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Next time you decide to call first thing on a Saturday morning to announce that our mortgage is entirely one month’s payment in arrears, giving me a heart attack in the process, please make sure that the account is actually in arrears.
That is all.

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The Plasma Generation may find this a bit hard to believe, but you can’t have it all.  Despite what mummy and daddy have been saying all these years, you can’t have everything you want “as long as you want it enough” unless you have about as much ambition as a soggy sock.
So for those of [...]

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