A lifestyle blog
Random, as it suggests!
. . Halfway down the stairs is a stair where i sit. there isn’t any other stair quite like it. i’m not at the bottom, i’m not at the top; so this is the stair where I always stop. For the last half a dozen years my favourite place has been right on the bottom edge of Barbados. Where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean. Just in front
. What was I thinking when I decided to get 21 birthday presents for Caity’s birthday?! Alongside deciding I would get 50 for Mr B who turned 50 five days later? I must have been mad. But actually thanks to the internet I managed to get all of them without even leaving my desk. These are some of my favourites that I got Caity The Easy Lock Now
. This post contains links to some items we have been sent in return for a mention If you are anything like me, you spend months organising a party and then the event itself goes in a flash and you think “blimey, was that it?”. But your guests tell you it was a party to remember, and for all the right reasons. Phew. I have been to
I thought I should share my Top Tips for a Buckingham Palace Garden Party as we have just been to our first (and only I would think!). Tell all your friends. This is a huge big deal and you should really enjoy your moment in the spot light. You have been invited to a Buckingham Palace Garden party! These events have been going on for generations and mark the
How does your Garden Grow (#HDYGG) is from Buckingham Palace this week! I know. Get me. We could have been in any park on Wednesday afternoon. The sun was shining. People were strolling, arm in arm, or in small groups. Some were stopping to admire the plants, others to take a picture with the impressive building behind us. There were even some dogs having a run. Closely
There is a coffee shop culture, you might not realise that if you are a grab and go kind of person, but I can assure you that if you are “get a cup and plan to sit and work for a few hours” type person it’s a whole different ball game. Can you work in a coffee shop all day? Good question, let’s find out shall we? 7.13am I am
. This is one of those linkies that I love. And last year I joined in a couple of times but never felt that I could show the whole of our garden. Bits of it were okay to photograph but mostly our garden is neglected. I am not by any stretch of the imagination green fingered. And even if I were I just don’t have the time.
for myself and a request for votes. Yes, it is that time of year again. The Oscars have been and gone, the BAFTAs are done and dusted and now it is all down to the BiBS: The Brilliance in Blogging Awards. The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that over there on the right look…. up there. There is a new badge asking for votes in the Brilliance
. If you know me you will know I have a middle name. If you know me well you know it begins with an A. It is only if you know me really well, call me mum, or are related to me that you will know what it actually is. This is going to be one of those blog posts that waffles a bit before it gets to the point,
. Not only do I love reading fiction but I love reading recipe books too, from cover to cover like a novel. I can’t resist buying them too when I see them on special offer, though I already have a cupboard groaning under the weight of them all. This month though I have found myself looking through some fab books so I thought I would share. The slow cooker
. Coventry grew up around a tree belonging to Cofa, hence its eventual name. In 1043 Leofric, the local Earl and husband to Lady Godiva, founded a Benedictine monastery there – and the Lady, it is said, rode naked through the town! Local industries included dyeing wool and silk weaving, before becoming a centre for bicycle and car manufacture in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Badly damaged in WWII,
. The Karcher Window Cleaner is the second product that we have received as part of our Official Karcher Blogger project and like the floor cleaner before it, is just brilliant at what it does. Cleaning windows is my least favourite task. Ever. Like even after emptying the dishwasher or taking the compost to the end of the garden. We have somebody who comes and cleans the outsides