A lifestyle blog
I have been following quite closely the story of Jon Platt who has taken his case about a term time holiday fine to the High Court. I was delighted he won the case this week and that the High Court has stated he doesn’t have a case to answer. Magistrates on the Isle of Wight had originally dismissed the case too but the Council took it to the High
Not you. I am not talking about you. You are lovely. I mean you as in society. And the right to think we can say what we like to anybody and to invade their private space. Following the BAFTAs on Sunday night I have followed the systematic destruction of one of our finest actresses: Sheridan Smith. A lady I adore. A lady who has really worn her
As I mentioned yesterday, today on the blog I am sharing some pictures from the garden at Hinton Ampner. This is a National Trust house just outside Petersfield and if you are ever in the area do go. In fact, I have a tip to share with you that was given to me by the lovely lady on the customer service desk when we visited. Lots of National
It is a few weeks now since I met up with Annie for a wander around Hinton Ampner, a National Trust house just outside Petersfield (in fact it is where we were when we stumbled upon Cheesefoot Head which I wrote about last month) . I hadn’t been to the house before but Annie knew it and is a big fan of the garden, and having been once I can
It hadn’t really struck me until recently how much I love music. Not playing it myself, I can’t play any musical instruments (a regret that I never learnt to play the piano. How cool to see one somewhere and just start an impromptu singalong?), but listening to music created by others. I have always known that music can affect my mood. It is hard to feel sad when Mr
For How Does Your Garden Grow This week I am sharing some photos I took yesterday from Guildford Castle. I didn’t even know Guildford had a castle and I have lived ten miles down the road for ten years (you may recall something similar happened with Farnham Castle, as I mentioned in this post: Farnham Castle Keep ). The only thing I knew about Guildford other than the fact
is probably about right. If I started the London marathon now it would probably take me three years to do it. Not only because I would be stopping every ten seconds to photograph and instagram something but because, well, I am not Paula Radcliffe am I? Every year I decide to get up early and watch the London marathon. On the sofa Whilst eating a bacon bap I
If you love Crunchies then you will LOVE these Crunchie Squares which are simple to make in a Thermomix. One of the 75 reasons I love it! I don’t know, you wait your whole week for a Thermomix recipe from me and then two come along at once. Or maybe you haven’t been waiting all week and this has just come as a pleasant surprise. Suffice to say
I know, right? Fudge. With Snickers. I remember when Snickers were Marathons and I also remember when the London Marathon was the Mars London Marathon so in honour of me being old enough to remember old things yesterday being the day of the Marathon I came up with this little beauty. It might also have been a day that I made a momentous decision about the marathon. And about my
Yesterday I wrote about charity help in Nepal a year after the earthquake. About the need for help around the world following disasters. Today it is about something similar but also at the same time, very different. It’s about twenty two well known chefs writing to the Prime Minister: It’s a scandal that in 2016 over 3 million children will needlessly die because they don’t have enough food,
A year. 12 months 365 days I look back over the past year and I can’t really think off the top of my head what I have achieved. Lots of things I wanted to do are still not done, many not even started. Some have been and then abandoned. Stuff has happened, as stuff always does. At the time it felt important, and some of it was,
We first realised that there might be something special about Room 302 where we were staying at the Walpole Bay Hotel in Margate when ten minutes after checking into our room a tour bus full of ladies from a WI tried to get into our room to have a look at it. Most apologetic when they realised Mr B was making use of the free wi-fi whilst lying on the