A lifestyle blog
The Tea Maker from Sage Appliances and Heston Blumental has arrived! And boy is it fabulous Last week really was a week of two halves. Monday started with me interviewing Myleene Klass, Friday saw me in A&E for three hours with a suspected broken ankle. But in the middle something happened that made my month. My year even. A Sage tea maker arrived. You might not have heard of
Tara has gone for Inspirational Women as the theme for The Gallery this week in light of the news that when Elizabeth Fry is removed from £5 notes this week, women are no longer going to feature on any Bank of England notes. This has, quite rightly, caused outrage. A petition has been started to show that there are so many inspirational women in history, why are none of them
The lovely Michelle over at The American Resident has been doing some blog hop / linkys for people to document “Where I Live” and this week the theme is “Indoors”; Where I live — Indoors. I thought this was so fabulous that I would join in as her post is about the art she loves and about working from home, something I really relate to. Previous themes have included cities,
Well clearly I am not ranting on Ranty Friday about women full stop (do I now put a full stop after the full stop?) what with me being one and all that. What I AM ranting about though is women that belittle other women. I am seeing more and more of it recently and it makes me cringe. Women picking on women. Putting them down and just being plain nasty. Belittling
Two A simple enough theme on The Gallery this week, but what to show. The two of us? Two of my children (then what about the third? Which one to leave out?). Two glasses ? (too much booze chatter recently). And then on Saturday night we went out to friends for a barbecue and I saw my chance. Two photos. Of two couples.
I have a real mixed bag of things to show you on “Mummy Barrow loves” this month. So shall we just get cracking? We have everything this month from a book and a game to pancakes and tea.
I was contacted by Comic Relief this week to ask if I would like to come along to an event with which they are involved. Enough Food For Everyone IF, is a coalition of over 200 UK organisations campaigning for action by G8 leaders to eliminate hunger. Launched last week Big IF London is a huge public rally taking place in London’s Hyde Park on Saturday 8th June. And I
When I say “homeless person” what do you think of? A drug addict sleeping under a bridge? An alcoholic sleeping on a park bench? An ex convict sleeping on a camp bed in a half way house? A Big Issue Seller? What if I told you a couple of my friends were homeless? And not only that but that they were homeless because of something other than one of the
There is no theme for the Gallery this week but I thought I would show you a picture anyway. Well because that is what Wednesday is all about for me on the blog now. I rejoiced last week when something in Karen Millen fitted me. I love Karen Millen but she doesn’t cater to those of us that are large of nork or arse so it is rare I can
I read the sad news that KT Tunstall’s four year marriage had ended this week. Sad, but nothing remarkable in that or really worth me blogging about you might think. I found myself singing her “Suddenly I see” track in Specsaver’s this morning after I put on my new glasses this morning. We are fans of hers. We have seen her before, a couple of times in fact and she
No I am not ranty about unhealthy lifestyles, per se. Blimey, I am in no position to speak about unhealthy lifestyles (and any suggestions I may have had a biscuit for breakfast earlier this week, and I don’t mean one of those overpriced breakfast biscuit things, I mean a Digestive, is unfounded). I am ranty about a recent study that has found that, apparently, soap operas are promoting unhealthy lifestyles
I hate it. And I don’t say that lightly. I am a huge fan of social media (but then you know that) and yesterday morning I adored it more than ever. I learned I was a finalist in the Brilliance in Blogging awards (into the final six) in the Social Media category, but more about that in another post. By 4pm I hated it. News had broken on Twitter of