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Who knew such a day existed? Well I didn’t until I got my social media calendar pinned up on the wall at the beginning of the year. Yesterday was National Popcorn Day, and tomorrow is National Hug Day. But today is National Coffee Break Day. It is hard having a coffee break when you work from home because there is never anybody around to say “fancy a coffee?”
This is why children need to start taking more risks with play. With being outdoors, with being out of sight for a short while (if safe to do so) and why they need to be allowed to climb trees and scrape their knees. Ask anyone above the age of 30, and they’ll tell you how different their childhood was from the one that kids experience today. Gone are the days
Probably the oldest window to ever feature on Window Wednesday this week, Waverley Abbey near Farnham Oh how I wanted to rename that Waverley Wabbey. Child that I am. Anyway. Yes. Waverley Abbey is another little find that is just up the road from us. We attempted to find it last year but realised, it being ruins and all, that it was along a footpath from the car park.
Gin of the month for January is Jawbox There was a time when the front door was left unlocked. When the kitchen was the scullery. And in the tiny scullery stood this big sink. Clothes and dishes and weans got washed there. A lot of craic was heard around a jawbox. It still is. From the moment I first heard about this gin I wanted to own a bottle and have
Last week whilst doing my semi regular “We need something for tea, I need to go food shopping” mercy dash to Sainsburys I was driven into. It couldn’t have been a more ridiculous car accident. I was stationary, waiting to turn right off the main road and the man that hit me pulled away from the road I was turning into whilst I was sitting in front of him.
I love circles. Some of my favourite things are circles My wedding and engagement rings The rim of a glass full of gin My favourite plate from Barbados A mug of tea A glazed ring doughnut from Krispy Kreme Wagon Wheels Chocolate Digestives All circles. All on my favourite lists. But this week something else has joined the list, something I hadn’t even heard of until Sunday. The day I
For a splendid vacation in the heart of the Mediterranean, whether you are an art lover, a historian, a food connoisseur, or a nature and sports enthusiast – Sicily is definitely the place to be. This is not only due to its long and rich history imbued with the spirit of over two millennia of cross-cultural interaction (which makes Sicily a melting pot of diversity), the many UNESCO-protected natural
It is rare that I get to sit down for a cup of tea with my mum. For all sorts of logistical reasons and also because a cup of tea is something my mum rarely enjoys these days. Not since she gave up dairy a few years ago. A kinesiologist has suggested that some health issues she had been having might be related to dairy and could well alleviated
It feels like ages since I have posted something for my weekly window post. My love for windows and their ability to frame a photo hasn’t diminished but time to go out and photograph them had recently. Last week we ventured to Guildford for a mooch on New Year’s Eve and to see if anything grabbed us in the sales and on the way back we realised we had
For just under £80 a year Amazon Prime could save your life. Not in a CPR kind a way, obviously, but in a day to day stress relieving way. That by paying that one off membership you get so much more. And save yourself a whole ton of other one off delivery charges from other companies. Amazon Prime Now You know that feeling when you realise you have no
I am not really sure why I am writing this post but it feels like the first post of the year should be a proper one. A formal one to mark the start of a new bunch of 365 days. Like using your neatest handwriting and only underlining with a ruler on the first page of a notepad, before it all goes down hill five pages in. Or
Week 5 of Ginmas, our final week of a gin a day Week 5 of #Ginmas is now done and I have to say that at the beginning I really wasn’t sure if I would manage to post a gin a day for a whole month. To be organised enough that every day at 6pm I would have a photo of each gin and a little bit about each one