A lifestyle blog
Random, as it suggests!
Well this is a challenge as I don’t have many photos of me looking much younger. I know lots exist in my parent’s house, squirrelled away in albums, but I can’t get my hands on them. So this week it is a few pictures of “A Younger Me” for The Gallery that I happen to have on Facebook.
Have I ever introduced myself to you as Tan? Have you EVER heard me call myself that? Has anybody around me ever called me that? No. Somebody did once but it was the last thing she said for a while.
It’s hard isnt it? One word that sums you up. I had to think about it when Tara, who runs The Gallery linky, asked me a few months ago. Tara was putting together a group of 25 bloggers and asking them to describe themselves. The results are here: Describe yourself in one word.
Yep, you got that right. Not can’t cook, won’t cook. Just can’t cook, can’t cook. My inability to cook is legendary so anything I do cook needs to be fairly idiot proof. Like my chicken pie. I made this for the first time in ages last month and thought “hmm this is so simple yet so fabulous I need to blog the recipe”. So here it is, told you it
I have never talked to my children about alcohol. So if a campaign running at the moment is to be believed that must make me an irresponsible parent. “Who is the designated talker?” scream huge adverts in magazines. Er there isn’t one in this house. So am I failing my children? Am I bringing them up to be alcoholics?
What do you call your remote control? When I was asked if I wanted to have a look at some research that had recently been done on the habits of the nation’s TV remote controls I was intrigued. What DO people call theirs?
We hear this campaign on the radio alot. Cars are the bad guys and out there to kill motorcyclists. We need to “Think Bike” at every junction, cross road, turning, exit blah blah. Well I am sorry but Ranty Friday this week is about the fact I am sick of being painted as the bad guy to motorcyclists. If my experience is anything to go by the biggest cause of
It staggers me that the Halloween industry in this country is now worth over £280 Million a year. That is just bonkers. Most people don’t even know what Halloween is actually about. I also learned this week that Tesco has a “Head of Pumpkins” (“Is that actually on her CV?” said C when I told her) and that our local big Tesco is where more of the 1.8 million pumpkins
Ranty Friday this week is about something that I have often grumbled about. Food packaging drives me nuts. Not just the sheer volume of it at times but how annoying it is to actually rip it open. You need to cut it / puncture it / try and pull it… you name it, it is not straightforward.
Oh blimey. Well that narrows it down on the Gallery this week then. There are very few body parts on this blogger’s body that I would consider showing the world. For many reasons, mostly on the grounds of taste. So I decided to show you a part of my body that is always on display and that I have talked about before but you might have missed it. In fact
I talked before about why I think books win over a Kindle, an in fact that post is one of my most read as people Google “books vs Kindle”. Yesterday I came across another reason. I spotted the above book sitting on top of the dog’s cage. The dog’s cage in our home office is a bit of a staging post. Stuff that needs to be reviewed, books that need
Yes, sorry, this is a rant about a company this week. I tend to shy away from these as sometimes the other side hasn’t had a chance to put their view across but I was so enraged by the end of my dealings with them this week I thought “sod it, that is my Ranty Friday”.