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Cheryl Rickman

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Author/Ghostwriter of hopefully helpful books x27 inc THREE LIONESSES & @treeglee @notesofdelight Positive Psychology Practitioner. Mum. Football fan.

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Daughter decided to have her long locks chopped off and is donating them to The Little Princess Trust. 🫶 I love the hairstyle she chose too 😍 I think it really suits her. ❤️
@suddabybrooke by @wellbeingauthor

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8 days ago

September was delightful. Even more so because I noted the tiny delights I noticed and savoured them. 🙏🫶💛 #30DaysofDelight @notesofdelight by @wellbeingauthor

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8 days ago

Proud mum today as daughter has been made Captain of Hampshire FA Football Academy. They played a 7-a-side pre-season game vs Portsmouth today, winning 6-4 👊 by @wellbeingauthor

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15 days ago

Autumn Equinox. A feast of Autumnal delights: juicy pears in the garden, shiny conkers, ferns an funghi in the woods. Foraged some colourful leaves, berries and pine cones to make a playful piece of Autumn art, before marvelling at the moon. 🍂 by @wellbeingauthor

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15 days ago

Sunday was super too! ⚽️ Andover New Street played higher tier Sholing in a second round FA Cup qualifyer. It was a pretty tight game and a real team effort, which saw Andover take the lead with a great shot from Izzy, assisted by Keira, but Sholing soon equalized. Some good opportunities for both sides followed and Immy bagged goal number 2, but the score remained 2-2 in the closing quarter, and it looked like it might go to penalties.

But, with minutes to spare, Sholing scored their third and it looked like it might be all over. Still, the girls battled on and, in the closing minutes, Andover were awarded a penalty.

The manager called on Brooke to take it. (I was, obviously, a nervous wreck by this point). 🤢 She thankfully scored the pen ⚽️🎉 and the whistle blew soon afterwards, taking the team to a penalty shoot out. 😁

Brooke stepped up to take her second penalty of the day ⚽️ and all 5 penalty-takers converted their shots vs 4 for Sholing. They'd done it! 👊👏🎉

What a nail-biter of a win! It was such an amazing team effort. They all dug deep and every single member of the team contributed to get the win! It was so good to see.

Now they're through to the third qualifying round of the FA cup, making history for the club.👊🎉 Andover New Street will make the road trip to Dursley Town FC for the next FA cup qualifying fixture on October 4th. #upthestreet 💚🖤⚽️

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@womensfacup by @wellbeingauthor

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17 days ago

The best Saturday being a local tourist! My soul sister from Vancouver, Iva, visited and we had such a wonderful day together! After a home-cooked dahl for supper the previous evening and a Full English breakfast at The Potters Heron, we headed for a mooch round our local town Romsey.

We then took a trip to the New Forest, past Canada common, where Iva enjoyed the full wild ponies and donkeys in the road experience and we met the cutest little baby donkey. 🥰 Had a nice cuppa tea and ginger ale at The Fighting Cocks pub before a windswept walk along Hengistbury Head beach took our breath away.

A lovely meal of steak pie n mash at The Old Forge in Otterbourne was a perfect way to end Iva's whistlestop tour of my neighbourhood and a cup-filling day of soul-nourishing connection and conversation. 🫶💛 I'm so grateful to have such amazing humans in my life. 🙏 by @wellbeingauthor

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18 days ago

A real treat to attend the Festival of Flowers and Nature at @winchestercathedral today. The abundance of beauty and creativity on display was sublime and it felt kind of other-worldly to slowly wander and wonder in awe at each installation. Vibrant displays of colour from the natural world set against the ancient backdrop of cold stone arches and pillars was a heavenly combination. And the Jane Austen tribute - her wise words weaved amongst dried flowers around her shrine and grave - gave me all the feels. 🙏❤️ by @wellbeingauthor

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20 days ago

HELLO ♡ I’VE MADE A LITTLE HOME FOR DELIGHT at @notesofdelight

For the past four-and-a-half years, I’ve been keeping a monthly list of delight - tiny things that've delighted me, amid the ups and downs of life.

Cold grass under bare feet. Morning coffee + birdsong. The feel of a shiny conker. The smell of freshly washed bedding. Warm toasty socks from the radiator.

Tiny golden moments I might have missed. I started writing them down because I wanted to remember them. But somewhere along the way, I realised something else was happening.

The more I noticed delight, the more attuned I became to it..

So I’ve made a little home for it.

Notes of Delight. ♡ Or NODs for short.

A few words that say:

This. Yes! This delighted me.

In a world constantly telling us what to fear, hate, fix, buy and worry about, Notes of Delight is an antidote to doom-scrolling; a little invitation to notice, note and share what's good and put a little more delight back into the world.

Not because life is always lovely. It isn’t. Life is often difficult, messy, heart-breaking and uncertain.

But difficulty isn’t all there is.

This is here too! 💛

➡️ Tomorrow, 1 September, I’m beginning 30 DAYS OF DELIGHT and I’d love you to join me.

For 30 days, we’re going to collect just one NOD - Note of Delight - each day.

No lengthy journaling. No prescribed thing you’re supposed to find. No right or wrong kind of delight.

Just go about your life and notice tiny glimmers; things that delight you. Then note it down. Savour it for a moment. And, if you’d like to, share it ( tag @notesofdelight to spread the delight and inspire others to notice what delights them too).

☀️ I've made a FREE 30 Days of Delight printout to help you collect yours. You can join via the link in my bio (notesofdelight.com) to get ideas of what to look out for and record your NODs.

And, from tomorrow, I’ll be here every day with a little reminder to look up, look around, notice and note.

I’ll be collecting mine alongside you too.

So ...what’s delighted you today? ♡

If you'd like to spread some delight & support my new little project, please do follow @notesofdelight and share this post 🙏🫶

Thank you x by @wellbeingauthor

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a month ago

"The seeds of dreams are often found in books."
Dolly Parton

Thank you Dolly.
For your words, your work, your music, your legacy.
For donating $500 million to humanitarian, education and literacy projects.
For giving out 300 million free books to youngsters with your Imagination Library.
For encouraging us to love and protect Mother Earth.
For being the good and seeing the good in others and inspiring people to be proud to be all that they are.
For encouraging people to pursue their purpose and be kind and decent; to read, to sing, to dream and to love.
What a woman, life and legacy.
Rest in peace, Dolly Parton.
We will always love you 🕊 by @wellbeingauthor

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Feeling very proud of my daughter @suddabybrooke today. In the last game of the 2025/26 season, she picked up a hip flexor injury. In June, she was given a six-week rehab programme of progressive loading to follow; not easy to do 3 hour long strength and 3 cardio sessions each week during the heatwave(s) but she just got on and did it. Her first day of rehab coincided with the first day of the World Cup, so at least she could watch football while not being able to kick a ball herself for 6 long weeks.

She then progressed to solitary Astro sessions, modified then full training.

Today, having watched most of pre-season from the sidelines, she finally got to play her first match minutes in 12 weeks and... seven minutes after coming on, she scored. 😁⚽

It's taken a lot of patience, determination and devotion, but worth it to be back doing what she loves and returning stronger. 💪 Looking forward to the 2026/27 season ahead. ⚽️ by @wellbeingauthor

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2 months ago

Had a proper delightful day out picking beautiful flowers at @stemandgreen Flower Farm in the sunshine under a blue sky with great company. Followed by coffee, cake and creativity, as we got the water-colours out and painted our hand-picked displays. Such a treat. A really thoughtful birthday gift 🙏🌸❤️ by @wellbeingauthor

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3 months ago

This is 52! 😃 Thank you to everyone who messaged or posted birthday wishes 🙏 I had a lovely day, opening pressies & cards, reading my new book, lazing in the garden, cooling off in the paddling pool... then an early evening birthday Proms Picnic with friends and family at Hilliers ❤️ Ending with a nice (albeit stressful) England win 🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️ So far, so good 🙂🙏🫶 by @wellbeingauthor

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