A lifestyle blog
A week overshadowed by world events wasn’t it? Where nothing else really seemed to matter and where events on the news really brought things closer to home into perspective. The photo above was taken on Monday morning as Mr worked from home and Bob decided to curl up and sleep in the empty fruit bowl and use Mr B’s mug as a foot rest. You can see who rules
. Okay so it is now after Ellie’s birthday and I can bring myself to talk about Christmas, and one of my traditions. Christmas is all about traditions and over the years ours have evolved as a family. The one that gives me the most pleasure in the run up to the main even though is baking that first batch of mince pies. There is nothing like making
. Who doesn’t love a greenhouse? I find them hugely romantic. A place to shelter from a sudden spring shower. A safe haven from a blustery afternoon when there are jobs to be done in the garden but there is also a cuppa to be drunk. A place where you can get organised. Piles of empty pots ready to filled jostle for position with trays full of seedlings
. Oh Charlie Sheen where did it all go so wrong for you? I feel like I have grown up with you and today the news breaks that you are indeed the actor rumoured to about to announce to the world that you are HIV positive. You are the chap who had to sit down on camera yesterday, after weeks of speculation in the press and confirm that it
. It won’t have escaped your attention that last weekend I was in sunny murky Devon on a blogger retreat, staying in a beautiful manor house called Amberstone Manor. It used to be a rectory and certainly has that grand imposing style of being “the big” house in the village, coupled with a homely and welcoming feel as you close the front door behind you and enter into the hallway.
. I don’t know if it was just because we were away from home and I was super relaxed, or if it was fact it was 10pm and we had been drinking wine since 3pm, but something happened on Saturday that I think might have been a bit of an epiphany. A bit of a life changing moment of “actually do you know what, you can do that and if
. As adults I think we call it “just being”. Just being allowed the time and space to be. To be whatever we want right then. As children it was either the time to make believe or to daydream. As adults this time to be is rare, and therefore precious. During the week I am busy being a working mum. A terrible cook. A mediocre wife.
. . One of the great things about blogging is the opportunities it brings, not just for me but for the whole family. I love being invited to events or taken to Africa with Comic Relief, but what I also love is sharing experiences with my family. We have some blinders, from VIP tickets to WWE to the FA Cup being on our coffee table and half of Fleet
. According to Collins this year’s word of the year is Binge-Watch. It could have been manspreading: eugh. Or clean eating: dull. Binge-watching though, I like. But then I would. I do it all the time, and apparently I am not alone. 90% of us do it according to a recent study. I do so much binge watching now that it has stopped me watching normal TV.
Okay so it wasn’t “all” girls on our weekend away, there was one lovely chap, but this was, for me, an escape for the weekend to spend some time with a group of bloggers I knew very well, to meet some I hadn’t met before, and to really get to know HolidayCottages.co.uk who had invited us all to stay in one of their managed properties. How could I refuse?
Asda wooden kitchen review I don’t know about you but not only am I not a huge fan of plastic tat toys I am a huge fan of wooden toys. There is something timeless about them, with a longevity that I love. That they once a living thing in a forest and not manufactured from some resin in a factory and shaped in a mould. I know that is
. When your lovely mum in law rips a page from the Waitrose magazine, puts a Post It on it saying “saw this and thought of you”, well you have to try it don’t you?! I can see why the real Mummy Barrow ( I so think my mother in law should register that domain and become a blogger, her recipes and craft ideas are superb. And the Real