Losing my amazing eldest daughter, after her hugely courageous eight-year fight against breast cancer that had spread just everywhere, ensured that 2016 would be the so far worst-ever year of my life. So much has been chaotic, exhausting and depressing. While I can hear her darling voice saying: 'Get a grip, Mum. Get a grip!' . . . and carry on . . . there have been so many days when I haven't wanted to emerge from under the duvet. I've found my job to be both a saviour and a source of stress-

The reward of a thing well done is having done it. Ralph Waldo EmersonThis is something I tell the kids from time to time in order to (or try to!) motivate them.I know how appropriate this quote is for us at WA.

This won't be a long blog post. I know that I had a rave about the annoying upsellers who try to squeeze dollars from our slim wallets, and that I was almost caught be one recently. There must be, potentially, thousands of people who have never heard of WA, and who part with far too much money. I think I need to be a bit more mindful about putting my WA link out there!During my 'flirtation' with this entity, I watched a 'webinar' about keywords. There was LOTS of sales talk, lots of talk about

. . . is from Denis Diderot. 'People stop thinking when they cease to read.'And how interesting is it that in every repressive regime, books are burnt.

In WA, I think perhaps all of us are careful about the writing on our blogs. Some of us are confident writers; others not so much. There are numerous entities out there who offer writing courses and e-books. Whilst many of these are worthwhile and will not insist that you part with loads of cash, there are others one should avoid like a crocodile whose teeth have been dipped in cyanide.Whilst not being the sort of scam where you part with thousands of dollars, I still consider this sort of thin