A lifestyle blog
Random, as it suggests!
It’s been a funny ole week. As well as the usual working / home life balance there have been two trips to London. One to visit Comic Relief HQ and one today for the MAD blog awards. One trip to London in a week takes it out of me as the logistics around it are quite manic, to do it twice is… well, unheard of now. My
I have had a hell of a week. As I type this madly on Wednesday morning I have barely stopped for the past 48 hours and am currently sitting in a hotel lobby ahead of more all day meetings. Yesterday I was out of the house for 12 hours, and its a bit of a blur. So I took this on Monday morning having seen the theme
I think we all know that to be the case, don’t we. But this time last week that was really brought home to me. I was asked if I would like to be interviewed to “create content” for the Toyota blog following our loan of the Prius Plug-in. I jumped at the chance, you know me, I love to talk. Especially when it is about something
The Booker Prize is as old as me, having been founded in 1969. It was formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction, and then the Man Booker Prize and is the leading literary award . It recognises the best book written in English and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year and whittles down a longlist of around a dozen books to a shortlist of six. It’s
God knows I love a good rant. Hell, I even used to have a weekly Ranty Friday on this very blog that was widely received, joined in with and looked forward to by many. Alot of people thought it was because I had to get something off my chest once a week when it actual fact it was so I could limit my ranting to just once a
I love a big sky. It is one of the first things I mentioned when we were in Cornwall at Christmas and as we headed down to Land’s End. Just the sheer amount of sky you could see. On a daily basis it is easy to forget jus how little of the sky I can see and just how much I love a huge sweeping expanse of sky. I took hundreds
I love fireworks. I mean properly love them. We had fireworks set to music at our wedding (Hard-Fi’s “Something for the Weekend” since you asked) and the budget for it was three times my dress budget. THAT is how much we love fireworks. Our summer holiday to France this year was timed to ensure we would be there for Bastille Day because every town has a
I have never been a great cook. I think everybody knows that. Least of all my long suffering family. But I do try. And recently I have been trying even harder to do things differently. Rather than the five things I can cook relatively disaster free, I have tried adding to that repertoire and branching out a bit. Listen I will never be Nigella or Delia Smith but I would
I am sick of it. And why am I telling you this? Because KT Hopkins has reared her head again this week. Doing what I can only refer to as fat shaming. Because, presumably, she has nothing better to do. For the past four months she has been filling her face to put on weight. And now has been parading her new body across the media
Well I could have taken a photo of our back to school preparations but, well, we haven’t done any yet. And when we do there won’t be much to show. This term is the first that I only have one child in school. Now that J is no longer at college and is working, and C continues to work, I only have E in school.
Is there any sight more sad at 9am on a Sunday morning than the car you have loved being driven off your drive? I think not. I can honestly say that we have loved driving this car over the summer and learned alot about Hybrid technology. To be honest I didnt’ know an awful lot about how Hybrids worked and was very sceptical about the fuel savings and
That picture up there is of my best friend friend, Jo, or Mrs Cooke as I always call her, and her husband, taken on our recent holiday to France. Mrs Cooke is a highly respected teacher so I always call her that, she is even in my phone under as Mrs Cooke and when she rings me the screen displays “Mrs” as though that is her actual first name.