Category Archives: Lifestyle

Smile File – Finding the silver lining

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Barbara Good

I went away last weekend with my gorgeous book club friends. We rented a house at the beach, bought foods we all enjoyed and essentially sat around eating, drinking wine and talking books. In the course of our many and … Continue reading →

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Smile File – The Little Book of Lykke

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Barbara Good

This year (and the end of last year) hasn’t been the most positive for me but despite some set backs I have managed to look on the brighter side of life more recently. I’ve become a little bit fascinated with … Continue reading →

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One Step Closer

Posted on October 22, 2017 by Barbara Good

Yet again it’s been a quiet six months on the blog – though with a few odd days where my stats went through the roof (relatively speaking consider this little blog is no high traffic site) for no apparent reason. … Continue reading →

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#FoodIsFree – a local initiative

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Barbara Good

Some time late last week I came home to find a flyer from a neighbour in my letterbox.  She was inviting the residents of the street to participate in a local movement called #FoodIsFree.  The idea is to leave any … Continue reading →

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Losing myself at home

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Barbara Good

Over the last five and a bit years, since having my first baby, I’ve switched between being at home full time and working part time, usually in one year stints.  After my first year at home I was keen to … Continue reading →

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A Screen Free Week….. almost

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Barbara Good

Last Sunday I wrote about a rut the girls and I had gotten into involving way too much screen time and my realisation that this needed to change.  We’ve had just over a week without screens almost entirely.  The exceptions … Continue reading →

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A Sunday Adventure

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Barbara Good

I find it so easy to fall into ruts, food ruts, parenting ruts, life-in-general ruts, give me a rut and I’ll happily fall into it.  I’ve been in just about all of them lately, but slowly, slowly I’m finding a … Continue reading →

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Winter Proofing the Good House

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Barbara Good

We possibly chose the stupidest time of year to move to one of the coldest places in the state last year…. mid July.  We very, very quickly discovered that what we thought was cold in Melbourne was quite mild by … Continue reading →

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The neglectful blogger….

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Barbara Good

For the last six months, since we made the life-changing move from the city to the country (well, regional city at least), I’ve blogged a lot – a lot for me, more than I have in the entire three years … Continue reading →

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Reality Bites – Bloody Floors

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Barbara Good

Something exciting has been happening here at The New Good Life and it all started with a comment from narf77 on my Anti-resolution post.  She said this,  Social media has made it VERY easy to blur the lines between reality … Continue reading →

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