A lifestyle blog
How to plan a day out with elderly relatives Now that the weather is warming up and some of the recent restrictions have been lifted you might be thinking about planning a day out as a family, so here are my 5 top tips for a day out with elderly relatives. Consider the terrain What might feel like an easy place for us to walk around can be much harder
Outdoor Adventures you need to plan now! it is safe to say that 2020 has been a very strange year. Many of us have had cancelled foreign holidays cancelled or moved to next year and so might be looking to have a break in the UK. I am not a fan of the word staycation, but it does seem quite apt doesn’t it? We should have been heading off to
Developing film with coffee sounds like a line from Peter Kay’s standup routine. Cheese….cake? Developing film?…..with coffee?? oh yes, developing film by using instant coffee and other ingredients readily available in Tesco can be done. There’s a lot of boring chemistry I don’t understand, but the gist of it is that black and white film has elements of silver that react to light. Turning those into a picture uses chemicals ….or
week 17 of lockdown Have you had a haircut? I am loving mine, and could have cried when I finally saw my hairdresser on Tuesday. I was terrified we would go into a local lockdown like Leicester and my appointment would have to be cancelled. I know that sounds pathetic but I hate having messy hair and looking bedraggled, so getting my haircut and catching up with my hairdresser was
Week 16 in lockdown Haircuts. That is all we cared about this week. Haircuts and when we can get one. Since it was announced that hairdressers could open again on July 4th social media has been awash with people gleefully posting that they have an appointment booked. Or smugly posting that they were in the salon at 12.01 on Saturday morning (lucky buggers). I had to wait until Tuesday
If you are thinking about buying a Quooker, or indeed any boiling water tap, there are one or two things you need to think about. We didn’t really consider these things before we bought ours recently so I thought it might be helpful if I wrote them all down! We had been thinking for a long time that we would like a boiling water tap so when our old
Week 15 That is an exact representation of the number of cups of tea I have drunk this week, a week that felt like it was a month long. Probably because all the weeks are merging into now, aren’t they? Though this was a lovely week as we got to welcome Lady Barrow into our support bubble. Lady Barrow has been living on her own for the whole
Week 14 of lockdown and it is all change again Might need to change the title of these now since we are no longer socially isolated. Although in fairness we still pretty much are keeping ourselves to ourselves. I have struggled to keep up with the rules recently, and worry that if I do something I think is right and post about it on line people will jump on me
This curried chicken salad with a mango yogurt dressing is the perfect weekend lunch, or lazy midweek supper. Relatively cheap and all cooked in one dish, my favourite kind of meal! I am not normally a fan of fruit with savoury dishes (don’t get me started on pineapple on pizzas for instance) so tend to avoid things like this but actually this works and isn’t too over powering at all.
Week 13 of lockdown and here is how it looked. This is the week that we were told we could form a support bubble with another household and next week the shops re-open and secondary school children are heading back to school. No news on restaurants yet though, the hospitality industry is going to be decimated by this, as is the holiday industry. There is talk that some hotels
World Gin Day happens on the second Saturday in June every year, which means this year it is June 13th, today! I have written about gin ALOT over the years so thought I would do a round up post for you to have a read through in case any of the previous posts had escaped your attention. The funny thing is that I really didn’t like gin until about five
This weekend I will be doing a yoga retreat at home, join me? This time two years ago I was in the south of France attending a four day yoga retreat. Not that I had ever done yoga before but the timing was right and I found myself flying on my own for the first time in decades to spend almost a week with total strangers, all in the