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Two things happened this week, well two things that weren’t snow related. The first was I did some much overdue blog maintenance and finally created a Thermomix category to share my posts on this kitchen gadget. And I re-jigged some existing posts about it, naming the series “75 Reasons to love Thermomix”. I have no idea it will become 75 reasons, I mean I know there ARE seventy five
Have you ever fancied rebooting your life? If you are anything like me you do it about four hundred times a day. Sometimes it is something small you want to change like finding a way for you to not have to empty the dishwasher for the third time. Sometimes it is something huge like dumping 48 years of emotional baggage and running off in a floaty white dress like the
Brain teasers Humans have toyed with brain teasers since the dawn of recorded history. The oldest surviving brain teaser can be found in the Rig Veda, a book of Sanskrit hymns which dates back almost 3,800 years ago – though no one alive today knows the answer, which is quite frustrating, to be honest. Almost everyone loves a good brain teaser, regardless of whether they are in in the
I feel I need to draw one, you know, a line in the sand. A full stop has a finality to it and, well, there is no finality here. But there does need to be a line drawn in the sand. For me, if nobody else. The past few months have been tough, if I am honest. Sliding into Christmas always leaves me feeling, I don’t know really but it
How to protect your small business from disaster When you run your own small business, you give it everything. Getting it up and running requires intelligence, excellent communication and lot of grit. So once you have it going, you need to ensure that you protect yourself from the risks a typical start-up might face. Here are just some of the things you can consider to protect what you’ve worked so
5 Top Tips for Keeping Your Kids Safe Playing Outside As a child, you probably spent time outside building dens, making up games with friends, whizzing around on a bike or a pair of rollerblades – such fun memories! While playing is an important part of childhood, as parents, it can be worrying when your kids play outside. This fear, combined with our children’s obsession with tech, has resulted in
I saw a friend sharing a post recently about her word of the year and I immediately started writing a blog post in my head, outlining mine. I have lots of blog posts in my head. All the time. Some never see the light of the day. Actually most never see the light of the day at the moment as my head is a mess and more often than not
Those of you that know me will know I am not particularly religious. I was at one point. Vaguely. My parents decided it should be my decision as to whether I wanted to be christened, not theirs (it was the late sixties so yay for hippies). I decided at about 13 that I did want to be christened so took myself off to Sunday school, got christened and then the
Books make great Christmas presents and I am firm believer in adopting that Icleandic tradition of Jolabokaflod “The Christmas book flood”. The joy of an annual in a Christmas stocking on Christmas morning is one of my strongest Christmas memories, and I so I love to give books as gifts. Here is a little selection of some of my favourite books of the moment which might be
Yep, apparently there are changes to the driving test in the UK coming into force today and examiners “are up in arms”. I can see why. First of all I agree with the ditching of “reversing round corners” because that always struck me as being a ridiculous thing to do. Why on earth are we reversing around a corner, ie off a main road onto a side road, in the
Mum what do you want for Christmas? How many times have I heard that in the last week? Lots. That’s how many. As my three teens and twenty somethings are all in full time work they are able to buy their own presents for other people now, and have a habit of spoiling us (I know, don’t hate me). Last year one of the best things I got was a
I have to hold my hands up and say that I don’t do a huge amount of shopping on the high street anymore, because our local one is ummm <insert unkind words here>. On the odd occasion we do need something we head off to Guildford, and wonder if we park at the bottom of the hill or the top, or Reading and then wander around lost for hours and