The Gallery This week is One Title No Words
Random, as it suggests!
Musings
Ranty Friday — That Downton Abbey Scene
If you haven’t seen last Sunday’s episode yet, look away now. This post contains a spoiler and if you are planning to watch it over the weekend ahead of this week’s instalment, then as much as it pains me to say it, sod off now. Right. So by reading this bit, you confirm you have seen it and know the scene I am talking about? So here goes. That scene
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World Mental Health Day — Grassroots Suicide Prevention Charity
I have written before of my experience with mental health issues, not my own, but how other’s battles have affected my life, and the lives of those I love. And of suicide. How the suicide of a loved one has long lasting and devastating effects for those left behind. As part of Mental Health Week this week I was approached and asked if I would donate a blog post to
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The Gallery — Sunday morning
Lazy like a Sunday morning. That’s how the song goes isnt it? And Sunday morning is the theme for The Gallery this week. To be honest our Sunday morning this week was rather lazy. And a bit weird. You see we woke up in the Malmaison Hotel in Reading, having stayed there after our night in Henley. Now I love waking up in hotels but I have a bit of
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Henley Literary Festival 2013
And so another amazing year for Henley Literary Festival ends. If you haven’t been before then I really suggest you look into going next year. It’s a “must do event” for us now. Monday morning and I was at “From Blog to book” hearing how Helen McGinn and Maggy Woodley have translated their phenomenally successful blogs into books. Both in very different ways. They gave us lots of
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Ranty Friday — What Gets My Goat
I tell you what gets my goat. That The goat thing I haven’t got a ruddy goat. Have you? Has anybody that you have ever met got a goat? No. So how can somebody or something get it? They can’t. Nor can they get on my wick. I am not a candle. I haven’t got a wick. They also cannot get my back up. The only thing that gets my
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Announcing Sport Relief and Team Honk 2014
It’s back, Baby. Comic Relief was this year and that means one thing. Sport Relief is next. And I am thrilled that Team Honk have been asked by Comic Relief to help support and promote the events they have planned. And let me tell you, they are some plans. And already there are bags of excitement, BAGS. Weeeeelllll you know that the award-winning, fun-raising phenomenon commonly known as TEAM HONK
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What’s the Story — 30th September
This is another case of my original scheduled post for today getting postponed because I came across the above picture over the weekend and thought I would share it with you. I have had real problems with the email programme on my laptop so Mr B suggested I download a new programme, which I duly did. But as I have four email accounts it then sat and chugged through downloading
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Thank you on behalf of Oakridge Village Fete
A few weeks ago I cheekily asked for donations a raffle that my dad was organising as part of this year’s village fete. I had no idea that I was going to get THE most amazing prizes and I promised I would say some thank yous. First of all though, thank you to all the lovely people who came along and bought tickets on the day, meaning that this year
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Lisa Faulkner — The Way I Cook — A review
If you follow me on Twitter you will know that I am a huge fan of Lisa Faulkner’s. Not just for her voiceovers on Heir Hunters (which is often the sound track to my morning) and because I have never quite forgiven the BBC for murdering her in Spooks, but because she is an amazing cook. Rightly so she won Masterchef and remains one of my favourite winners of all
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Ranty Friday — It was an Error
That’s all right then, isn’t it? It was an error. A single mistake. Oopsie. We have blamed it on an error so let’s all just move along and forget it ever happened shall we? Oh and to make ourselves feel better and make it sound like we care we have donated £25,000 to the charity, Mind.
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Tidy Desk — Tidy Mind
Well they say that, don’t they? Whoever “they” might be. That if you a tidy desk you can think straight. I know for me this is certainly true. In fact it is very true. We have a room in our house that is known as the office. It has a desk in in and a computer.