The entire week my work WhatsApp group Pingend has with messages from colleagues.
“Does anyone have flowers hails? I really want to raise my package Monster Munch, “read one. “Ahh, a nice, cold, damp towel after a tough day,” said another accompanied by a photo of a lot of dirty laundry by a washing machine.
Yes, you guessed it, just like most of the country we are obsessed with Netflix's new Meghan Markle show – Oops, my fault – Meghan Sussex.
With love, Meghan is so unintentionally hilarious and is so glorious about the consciousness that it has become a must-watch.
My absolute favorite – and the most meaningful part of the entire series – is when she asks her guest, the American actress and comedian Mindy Kaling, to the kind of parties she throws for her three young children.
“I don't know if you go all the way for the parties of your children or not?” The Duchess asks, to which Mindy answers: “The woman I hire does.” Priceless.
What is the point of having someone in your show to talk about organizing children's parties when she has never planned one because she has the wealth to outsource?
Dr. Max Pemberton says that the tips for children of Meghan can feel the shares of Meghan on her new Netflix show, some can feel insufficiently
Why don't you ask for a working mother who has no staff and millions in the bank to offer her tips on organizing a party with a budget? That's something I would look at.
No matter how funny and unrealistic the series is, I am worried how some parents can feel. Some people will look at the endless crudités, charcuterie boards and customized party bags and worries that they abandon their children by not offering something similar.
Let me tell you, you are not. No child cares about this stuff. It is competitive and performance parenthood, clear and simple. Give children a ball and place them in the garden and it will be fine.
A month or so ago I wrote about the joy of my cousin when I gave him a gift. He ignored the actual gift and spent the whole afternoon playing with the huge cardboard box in which it came.
I was encouraged to hear from so many readers that they too had experienced the same with children.
It is reassuring that although parents may worry about stimulating children, their imagination means that everything can be exciting, regardless of how boring and boring it may seem to us faded adults.
Children make their own pleasure and games, they don't need flower displays, homemade jam and balloon arches. In this way there is madness.
No wonder that so many mothers were furious with Mumnet's parenting site on Meghan's antics. “It literally gives yourself a lot of work to rule it over others with how thoughtful and talented you are,” wrote one.
Regarding adult entertainment, I can only say that if you ever feel forced to mix the individual cocktails of your guests in pre-chosen jam jars, than a number of easier friends find the kind that realizes that socializing is about the company and is happy with a bag of Doritos and a pre-mixed M&S Tinny. Everywhere Meghan was in pain to point out that things don't have to be perfect, while the implicit message was very the opposite.
It is hardly reassuring that it is perfectly told that being perfect not to make someone whose Le Creuset Skillet Pan corresponds to their outfit.
Meghan's version of hostessing is not relaxed and carefree, it does not say: 'Don't worry if you do not bother to make a cake, nobody will notice if you get it from Lidl'.
Instead, it is high-octaan and stress that induce because the vast majority of people in human beings have the ones I know, then bind their laces, let alone tie around bows around bricklaying pots.
She assured us that even those among us in 'A Little Flat in London' can have a piece of this postcard the land of the postcard.
Oh really? In a crisis of the costs of living when many people cannot afford basic groceries, let alone edible flowers, it just feels like a nasty girl strolling. There are no rainbow roots or Persian cucumbers in my nearest Tesco. I checked it.
Every episode hit the kind of superficial, toxic positivity that we see on Instagram. I really looked at the feeling that Meghan tried too hard to convince me that everything in her world is in her world – in fact, more than good, surprising (as she repeatedly) says joyfully, healthy!
There is a moment when she turns her back on a pan of milk that warms up on the stove for freshly brewed coffee and almost overbells.
As long as she had beaten her shoulders, throwing the whole thing away and said, 'Forget, who has time to make sweet, warm, foamy milk? You can immediately drink coffee with cold milk from the fridge like everyone else. '
Now that would have been recognizable.
Four years after having become a widower, actor Richard E Grant still communicates with his deceased wife, Joan Washington, including via e -mail.
“I don't have a woolly, spiritual delusion that she hears this, or that I am going to get a reaction, but it somehow keeps the connection going on,” he said.
I have often come across this.
A friend who lost her husband of 40 years old holds a room in her house where she has put some of his things. Every day, just before bedtime, she sits there with a cup of tea and talks to him. For her it feels natural and reassuring.
A patient who traveled a lot after his wife died would write her postcards. On his return he would save them in her old bed.
Far from being strange can find a way to communicate with a lost lover and to keep them alive in your heart and spirit can be a wonderful way to channel sadness.
Talk through your grief
Prince William suggests that NHS employees get 'forced breaks' in their career to help prevent burnout.
But I am not convinced of this, because sometimes the routine of work makes problems manageable.
I remember a friend at the medical school, robbed after she had split with her boyfriend and asked one of her professors to ask for free time to deal with it. He refused – instead of being insisting that she joins his 7 o'clock in the morning neighborhood rounds.
We were all furious on behalf of her, assuming he was cruel when he really tried to help. He knew he would take free time for her mental health, would not achieve anything. She had to concentrate on something other than herself. Now a eminent surgeon, she agrees that the tough love approach was correct.
Yes, there are times when a break of the work is needed. But there are also times when work is the answer.
Weightlifting
A study has shown that lifting weights can improve sleep quality in the elderly. Weightlifting or resistance exercise is also ideal for combating the natural decline of muscle mass and strength (known as sarcopenia) that takes place as we get older.
