A lifestyle blog
. Suffice to say this week is not exactly the week I had planned this time last week. In fact this time last week I was pretty much in a co-codamol coma flat on my back on a hotel bed nursing what I suspected was a broken ankle. As the pain subsided slightly, or maybe it was due to the drugs kicking in, or actually it might have
. . I lay in the dark on the night of September 24th / morning of September 25th six years ago thinking “what if he has just got in the car and driven off”. “what if he has vanished and we never hear from him again”. You hear of people doing that. Of families in anguish as a loved one vanishes and is then missing for years. This was
Today feels like something historic is happening. Something monumental. Something spectacular. Something that is set to change the lives of millions in less than two decades. Something that needs your support to happen, because without you the goals won’t work. In order to get these simple goals to work they need to be famous and we need to know about them so that world leaders don’t forget them.
. I am going to keep this brief. No flim flam. No messing about. A blog post that if it were a noise it would be a “BOSH” kinda thing. My lovely friend Kate at Gower Cottage Brownies (who I have written about a million times before) has got her paws on some tickets for events next week at the Henley Literary Festival and has asked me if I
. Next weekend sees the Audley End Apple Festival and as part of the celebrations I was challenged to come up with an apple recipe. Which is handy really as we have a couple of apple trees in our garden and generally speaking we don’t do a huge amount with them each year. A real shame and there is no excuse since the least we could do is juice them.
. There is saying about pants that goes something like: “well if I get run over and end up in A&E I want to make sure I have clean pants on” as a reason why pants should always be clean and semi decent. And shameful pants should be ditched, or only worn when you are not leaving the house. It’s a saying I have muttered a few times in the
. Chateau de la Cheine was built in the 1840’s for a Colonel in the French Army, titled Chateau de la Ressegue originally, the owners sold the name to the neighbours . It is the most “important” building in the commune and provided employment for the local people but was bought twenty years ago by Karen and Clive as a home in France. A home they now let out
Ferrero Rocher Ice Cream Recipe I decided to make this ice cream for Jonnie’s birthday as they are a sweet he likes (unlike the metre long tube of jelly beans I bought him for his birthday. Oops) and I thought it might be a bit different. Can I really make Ferrero Rocher Ice cream? Yes, yes you can! It is a really simple ice cream to make, needs only
. Bloody hell, don’t faint but it’s a blog post from me. They have been a bit thin on the ground in recent weeks I know. A combination of things really. Mostly absolute and total exhaustion. A total lack of energy to do anything, including blog, which really isn’t like me. It’s been building for a while and suddenly it hit me when we were away in
. Weddings are funny things. Joyous occasions, obviously, but they can be stressful as a guest. Hell they are stressful for those whose big day it is, but I think we sometimes forget that they can be for those coming along for the party and cake too. I can think of no other occasion where you might not know many of the other guests attending. Well
. Yet again events in the diary have jumped off the page and basically shouted “YOU ARE GETTING OLD”. This week more than ever. Even when I got a year older last month on my birthday I didn’t feel older in an instant than I do today. This week Jonnie has a birthday and leaves his teens behind to turn twenty. Even he doesn’t like the idea
. I have been asked to do this before, review supplements that claim to make us feel better, but I have always been put off them. Until now. When Pharma Nord approached me with two supplements they sounded exactly like the sort of thing I needed. The first is Bio-Chromium and helps to control blood sugar levels throughout the day. Something I often really struggle with and then