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I am amazed that there are still women out there that really do mean what they say and Ali Meehan is one of these women.  My time is more than precious (as is for most people), but I am lucky if I get to sit for more than an hour on the computer a couple […]

Life’s a Box of Chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get, so said Forest Gump.  Life is all about choices and as expats we have chosen to get on that flight, or in that car and move to a different country, culture, climate and community.    So once here, have we found the elusive

Q:  Your latest novel, THE MASTER’S TALE, is a gripping account of the life of Captain Edward Smith, the Master of the TITANIC. What inspired you to write this particular story?A:  In the summer of 2008, just as I was about to start work on a novel about the English Civil War, Captain Smith appeared in

Once upon a time, there was “just” one woman with a mission. One woman with a purpose. With a plan. With a hope and with heck of a lot of determination”. She had a dream” you might even say, copying another famous super-achiever! That woman is Ali Meehan and her mission was to create a space

Punctuation Changes in fashion affect all aspects of our lives, even grammar, but when it comes to punctuation there is little that can be modernised without distortion.  The trend in recent years has been to under-punctuate but too little punctuation can be confusing for the reader.   Some famous writers have experimented with using no or

Hi, I’m Helen and although I have been around on Costa Women for a while but not always an active participant…..until now that is. Back in the summer of 2010 hubby and myself were living in rural Norfolk along with our three adorable cats. I spent my days hurtling my faithful Citroen around the little

To ask for help when needed? To make quick and smart      decisions on the spur of the moment? To invest in yourself,      long-term? To have the courage to put      yourself first? To TRUST that everything will      be okay? I know these are loaded questions, but just like the elephant in the

I’ve always wondered what they’re like. You know, the posh parties at Marbella beach clubs where you have to wear white or silver or gold or red? Where the glamorous people line up to have their photos taken, beautifully made up with smoky eyes and coiffed locks; where the men wear freshly ironed linen suits

I loved ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ by Stephen Covey. It’s not that what he was saying was groundbreaking, but more that he had a way of putting it in such simple terms that the messages really hit home. And to this day I still use a number of his ‘stories’. My favourite has

Pueblo Inglés offers free holidays to those Anglo Teens who fancy a two-week summer stay talking English to Spanish teenagers   APPLY HERE   Pueblo Inglés, an English immersion course for Spanish students, invites 13 to 19-year-old English speakers to live and converse with Spaniards in charming villages in Spain. In exchange they receive new international friends,