A lifestyle blog
Random, as it suggests!
. This week a number of things have happened that have brought it home to me just how old I am now. Properly middle aged. I am pretty sure I won’t see 90 so 45 really is the hump in the middle of my life. And not in a maudlin way but this week I have been thinking about the signs I am getting old. The first sign being that
. Sounds like an agenda for a cracking weekend, doesn’t it? Well in addition to that it is also the title of a book out tomorrow from Choccywoccydoodah, one of my all time favourite shops in the world. Though there are in fact two of them: the flagship store in Brighton and the Mothership in London. It goes beyond that though, Choccywoccy is not just a shop, it is
With the weather looking like it might brighten up a bit over the coming weeks and Easter on the horizon, our thoughts have turned to sorting out the house, ready for summer. Since this is easier, and cheaper, than getting my body ready for summer which is possibly what you thought this post was going to be about. First of all we have sorted out the small spare bedroom which
. There is no denying that things around here have been neglected recently. And whilst we have a cleaning lady to do the loos and kitchen and chuck the vacuum cleaner around once a week, the house is looking a bit shabby. This coupled with more sunlight streaming through filthy windows and there is no denying, I needed to get my finger out and get some cleaning done
. Oh my God, have you heard about John and Debbie? No, what on earth’s happened? They are getting a divorce WHAT?!!! But they have been together for ten years. I thought they were really happy together Well seems it is all over Why? He slapped her and split her lip OH EM GEE that’s appalling. Is she okay? Not really. He screamed at her for ages first and
. is that they are their own worst enemies. I have never seen behaviour like I have seen from fans of One Direction fans this week on Twitter. Or actually, any week on Twitter. They are a completely different beast. This week we have heard on the news that Zayn, one of the merry bunch of five lads thrown together by X Factor five years ago, has left the
. Whilst I have been trying to save the world in the past few months Mr B has been holding down a stressful job with a four hour daily commute and, in his words, “keeping the home fires burning” whilst I have been away. No mean feat and so to say thank you I dragged him off to Birmingham last weekend to the Photography Show. Photography is something
. Rather than dashing up to Birmingham and back in a day we decided to make a weekend of the Photography Show and our “Press tickets”. Well as much as you can at the NEC in Birmingham and check into the Premier Inn. As if I haven’t seen enough of Lenny Henry during all our Comic Relief shenanigans we thought we might catch up with him somewhere on the
. So it’s been handbags at dawn this week between Elton John and Messrs Dolce and Gabbana over this comment in an interview with the designers in Italy’s Panorama magazine: We oppose gay adoptions. The only family is the traditional one. No chemical offsprings and rented uterus: life has a natural flow, there are things that should not be changed.” Dolce then added that procreation “must be an act of love”,
. Today is the day if you are a huge Harry Potter fan, and let’s face it, who isn’t it? The actual real life Hogwarts Express steam train arrives at platform 9 3/4 of the Warner Bros Studio Tour just outside Watford. Ellie and I were lucky enough to have a sneak peek last week on our umpteenth visit. Every time I come I am still blown away by
Another great theme. I love black and white photos. I agree with Tara, they really do give a greater depth of emotion, and you see things you don’t necessarily see when you have colour there too. This isn’t a picture I took in black and white, it has been edited that way but it is one of my favourite photos on my phone at the moment. Showing three of
. This is a final goodbye to a friend. Well it might not be a goodbye forever but for now it is. I have to get this friend out of my life. Because. Well because they aren’t really my friend. I thought they were. You see they were always there for me. Already I see I am referring to them in the past tense. I have been gradually