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Murder Mystery Party Game No dont worry, I am not about to confess to some heinous crime. This is the tagline on the back of a game we recently played with some friends, over dinner. We take it in turns to have dinner at each of our houses and I have now gone through my repertoire of meals I can offer guests who aren’t family. And as
Twitter erupted as the trailer revealing the 13th Dr Who was shown just after the Mens Wimbledon Final yesterday. To be honest I had forgotten the BBC had scheduled it to be shown then, because we haven’t watched Dr Who since Sir David of the Tennant left a few years ago. Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi, whilst great actors, just didn’t feel like great choices, so where once we all
I wasn’t really ready for it if I am honest. Speech day had been in my diary for a few months, I had booked the day off work and I had made sure the RSVP slip for the after presentation BBQ had been returned. But as the day approached it hit me. This was it. The last of my three children was leaving school. This is it.
That is me above, right now. It isn’t, obvs, but it might as well be. So, regular readers will know that back in January another car drove into mine. Not nearly as dramatic as it sounds, I was stationary, he was doing 3 miles an hour. The damage to my car was minimal and as my car is seven years old I debated not getting the damage repaired at
We went to Brighton a couple of weeks ago and everywhere we went there are groups of women with sashes declaring who was the bride, mother of the bride, granny of the bride etc. Grown women wandering around the town centre on a Saturday afternoon with penises on headbands and L plates round their necks. If I am honest, it all looked a bit, what’s the word? Tragic. One
That’s what it boils down. Twelve kilos in 12 days. Lost. Gone forever. All as a result of doing the Chris James 12 day cleanse. I read the outer sleeve that came on my box of goodies nodding: Do your eyes and skin look fatigued? Do you sleep restlessly and wake up tired? Do you lack the willpower to kick bad habits? And do you suffer from mental lethargy?
No don’t pull that face. Don’t do what we all do when the adverts come on TV, and hit the fast forward. Bear with me for five minutes because we need to talk about tyres. Chances are you drive a car, or travel in a car with your family on a fairly regular basis. If you don’t, well you may be excused from today’s blog post. So,
I hadn’t until recently when I received an email asking me if I fancied trying it out. It came at a time when my headaches were at an all time high and my healthy eating was at an all time low. The idea is a simple one, three days of nutritious soups and broth to help cleanse and detox your digestive system, leaving you feeling so much better at
I wrote about this phrase four years ago: Lessons to be learned in the wake of the Baby P case. “Lessons will be learned“. And yet here we are, with a different situation four years later but still hearing the same phrase being trotted out. I am sick of it. How many more people have to die before these bloody lessons are learned? Once again I wake up
Dear BBC Like many people on Saturday night I was just thinking about taking the dog for a walk before going to bed when a news alert popped up on my phone that there was an “incident” developing at London Bridge. We all know that “incident” is not a word used lightly these days and that this was clearly a developing story. Knowing that friends were in the
With June 1st comes the realisation that the summer is finally here. And with it come the invites to summer weddings and balls, and the looming large of sporting events in the calendar. All of which need a go to killer outfit. If you have to buy an outfit for every event it can get pricey so a few years ago I made the decision to buy
I started drafting “6 things that annoy me about hotel bedrooms” in my head after another ten minutes trying to find a plug socket in a hotel bedroom about a year ago and I was reminded to make the post live when the same thing happened recently. A gorgeous hotel, on the Thames, £190 a night for the room with Molton Brown toiletries, bottles of water, notices saying you can call