A lifestyle blog
Okay so it not so much an actual window I am featuring on Window Wednesday this week but the metaphorical window that let’s you view the £5.4 million roof restoration project of The Vyne’s roof. We have been to the Vyne before since it is one of our closest National Trust houses and has not only a gorgeous house to venture into, but also stunning grounds and gardens. Mr B and
I started drafting “6 things that annoy me about hotel bedrooms” in my head after another ten minutes trying to find a plug socket in a hotel bedroom about a year ago and I was reminded to make the post live when the same thing happened recently. A gorgeous hotel, on the Thames, £190 a night for the room with Molton Brown toiletries, bottles of water, notices saying you can call
The Guardian has said that The Handmaid’s Tale, which aired for the first time last night on Channel 4, is “The best thing you’ll watch all year”. I beg to differ. Not because I have seem something better, but because I won’t be watching the Handmaid’s Tale. Why? Well for a number of reasons. It is clearly an extraordinary book. People discuss it enthusiastically at length, picking over the
Social media and rolling news channels have a lot to answer for. For the most part I am a huge fan of both, loving the fact I can feel connected to people and events all over the world from the small phone in my hand. That I can Skype my parents to show them how my granny has settled into her new care home after they moved her
Did you know that either of those things existed? Well come on, keep up. They do indeed and the second one just happens to have just been awarded to a very good friend of mine, Nickie from I Am Typecast, so I grabbed the opportunity to have a chat with her about the title. And thought I would share with you some of my current favourite notebooks. Like Nickie
I bloody hate that expression. I think it’s awful but I can’t think of anything as succinct as that to make a decent title for this post. “If you aren’t married to the person we are inviting then you will not be invited to our wedding” doesn’t trip off the tongue as easily as the above. Which is why it is clearly the headline the tabloids are going with for
Giggling Squid It is rare that we go out for dinner. We have a kitchen full of gadgets to help with cooking and if we can’t be bothered to use them, then we generally have a takeaway. So when Giggling Squid asked if we would like to find out more about their restaurant we jumped at the chance. There are a number of the restaurants around the country and
Driving is a big thing in our family. I mean a seriously big thing. Not in a “we need to get to from A to B” type of way but more of a “where can we make B this weekend?” As an example, twelve years ago my dad decided, with a group of mates, to drive to Sydney. Yes. That Sydney. From London. It would
Twice this week I have raged at headlines online. Headlines with information that just isn’t relevant quite frankly, and twice it has made actually shout out loud. Once instance made me swear on Twitter, and that rarely happens. The first was the recent story about Aaron Lennon, the footballer. A man who was in need of some support for a mental health issue. What is the headline we see? “£55,000
It was pretty much a case of sticking a pin in the map on Sunday morning when we woke up in London and decided to stop off for a walk before heading home. Though the map was actually a book called “Secret London” and the pin was Mr B’s thumb as he flicked through the index. Chiswick House, unsurprisingly is in Chiswick, and is a House that
Not what you expect a National Trust house to look like, and certainly not one that I that would be featuring on my sporadic lately weekly post about my love of windows. As you know, I do love windows as they can perfectly frame a shot, can give you a glimpse of a world beyond them, or indeed be the focus themselves. This has to be the first National
One of the things I love most about binge watching TV programmes on platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video is that there aren’t advert breaks. Adverts in the middle of a top class drama kill it for me, just as we get gripped with the action it comes to a thundering halt and we are suddenly confronted with an advert for loo roll or butter. With Sky+