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The Advantages of Utilising Proper Musculoskeletal Techniques for Desk Jobs

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023 By : Lyndsey O'Halloran

AD | Collaborative post Skeletal muscle is a type of muscle tissue that is connected to the skeleton and is responsible for voluntary movement. It is composed of muscle fibres that are made up of multiple protein filaments, including actin and myosin. Skeletal muscle is also capable of contracting and relaxing in order to produce movement. It is the most abundant type of muscle tissue in the human body, and it is found in all limbs and the majority of the trunk. Skeletal muscles are generally classified by their shape and the direction of their

Improving my home office with a standing desk

Improving my home office with the Yo Yo Desk Pro 1 standing desk

April 15, 2022May 28, 2022 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

AD | Paid collaboration Being self-employed and working from home I spend a lot of time at a computer. Sometimes this is a desktop and sometimes it’s a laptop. I am very lucky that I have my own office space at home and I have some freedom as to when and how I work. However, sitting at a desk all day can cause back ache, amongst other things, so recently I’ve been trying out the Yo Yo Desk Pro 1.

Struggling With Solitude

June 4, 2019August 8, 2021 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

I got my first job when I was 13. It was a paper round and it didn’t last very long but I soon got another job working in a cafe thanks to my Great Aunt. There haven’t been many times where I haven’t had a job between 13 and 33 and a lot of the times I have worked in customer service in some way. Jobs like that mean being around people all of the time and there’s generally always someone to talk to. I loved chatting to customers and I had some real favourites

The Pressure That Comes With Blogging

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

Generally I am the kind of person who keeps to myself. I know that might sound really strange coming from a blogger who puts her whole life on the internet but I can count my friends on 1 hand and it’s very rare that I ever post to my personal Facebook page. I write about our lives, parenting issues we may be having, things we might have done and products we have been using. Something I don’t write a lot about though is self-employment, blogging and what it means to be a full time blogger.

Introducing… Me!

January 10, 2019January 9, 2019 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

You might not know it but I have actually been blogging for 10 years this coming summer. Way back when I started I had moved back home from Canada the previous year and I was getting ready to go to university as a mature student to read English. At the time, I was reading quite a lot and writing reviews on some websites which I got paid tiny amounts for. A member of one of those sites gave me some great advice and that was to also create a blog as somewhere to cross post

Working From Home With The Lenovo Ideapad 530S

November 4, 2018May 15, 2020 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

AD: This post is in collaboration with AO.com. Being self-employed and working from home means needing the right tools to be able to get the job done. I am lucky enough to have my own office in one of the spare bedrooms but I don’t want to be shut away all of the time. Sometimes, it’s nice to work on the couch on an evening or be able to take work away with me if we go on holiday. For this, I need a laptop and my old model has been slowly dying for a

Feeling Frustrated With Funded Childcare

August 20, 2018June 24, 2020 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

As a self-employed blogger I find myself on the HMRC website a lot more than I would like to. I have only been self-employed since August 2016 and only full time from July 2017 which isn’t very long at all. It’s safe to say that I don’t know what I’m doing a lot of the time when it comes to self-assessment tax returns, tax and National Insurance contributions, among other things. I think sometimes it’s easy to forget that someone else dealt with all of that when I was employed and it was all just

How Winning The Lottery Would Change Our Lives

August 12, 2018August 9, 2018 By : Lyndsey OHalloran

I know that people say that money can’t buy you happiness but I don’t necessarily agree with that. You see, money is a bit of a struggle for us at the moment and I know that having more of it would make us all that little bit happier. I’m a bit of a daydreamer and often find myself thinking about how having a nice sum of money would change our lives. I’m not a greedy person and I certainly don’t need to win millions but Lottoland’s Lotto Plus has prizes of different amounts and the second