A lifestyle blog
That is an awfully big number isn’t it? And if you know anything about what is going on in the world at the moment you will know the significance of it. The number of lives lost in the First World War and therefore the number of poppies planted in the Tower of London Moat. Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red began being planted back in August and continued
This weekend there was a bit of a furore on social media about something that Elle US tweeted, in case you missed it: Plus Size?!!! What? On what planet is Myla Dalbesio a plus size model? You can see her ribs for crying out loud. Planet fashion industry, that’s who, and it drives me mad. But more importantly than that, I think it is dangerous. Myla is,
Did you even know that such a day as National Fountain Pen Day existed? I didn’t until recently. There does seem to be a National Day for everything these days so it is hardly suprising. And if you are as bigger lover as stationery as I am there is even a whole week to celebrate the love. So when I was asked what I wanted to choose to spend my
You can’t beat a great food partnership. Fish and chips. Tuna and sweetcorn. Rice and peas. Spaghetti and Bolognese. To name but four. And Oxo are well aware of that and have now come up with something rather clever to add a little mealtime magic partnership to some old family favourites. A little something to give dinner a magic jooz. how do you
That’s an odd picture for The Gallery theme this week, I grant you. Not particularly spectacular. Though rather lovely, I agree. You will have to forgive me for being a bit self indulgent because it’s been a funny year for me as a blogger, and an odd week. I think this year as I get some time off over Christmas and New Year I will be in quite a reflective
Stuffing your stocking with Sage Appliances Last Saturday I co-hosted an event with Harriet from Sage Appliances in their test kitchen in Chiswick. Mr B, myself and half a dozen other bloggers got to play with all of their fabulous kitchen gadgets whilst preparing a backwards lunch. It wasn’t meant to be backwards but we got a bit excited about the ice cream maker and made Oreo ice
The Barrow family have a lot of love for Wales, and have endless happy memories of the place. So when I decided I wanted to try out a recipe using tea as an ingredient Mr B said “why not make a Bara Brith”. Why not, indeed, especially when I can rename it Barrow Brith. Did you see what I did there? Clever, huh? As I set about making
Thermos #OvernightCoffee challenge Funny how a year ago I wasn’t drinking coffee and now I can’t get enough of the stuff. And from going to the London Coffee Festival solely to meet the guys from Sage Appliances I am now jumping at the opportunity to attend coffee related events the minute they drop into my inbox. Buying coffee beans based on their roasting date and now fluent in flat
I didn’t. But there is no escaping it, Hallowe’en is now big business over here, certainly if this recent article in the Guardian is to be believed: Happy Halloween for retailers It was all a bit too American for me and felt a bit like we were sending our children mixed messages where we tell them not to accept sweets from strangers but then we were accompanying them on
It was thanks to a suspected broken collar bone that I got to take the above pic. E had fallen badly on a trampoline two weeks before and after a detour to the local A&E department on the way home from school they confirmed after an X-Ray that it wasn’t broken. That it would require a follow up appointment two weeks later in the Fracture Clinic though.
I see him every morning. The man that walks to work reading a book. My first thoughts were “wouldn’t it be funny if he walked into that lamp post?” and then my second was “I wonder how many books he reads a year”. But then ultimately my thoughts turned to what a shame it is that he is not in the here and now. He is not mindful
They tell you not to, don’t they? People. People tell you not to talk to strangers. To be afraid of them. That all strangers are lunatics out to murder us in our beds. Yet in reality that is not really true. I don’t want to get all morbid and intense but statistics show that when a person is murdered or hurt it is by somebody they know. Generally speaking.