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Yay, Tara is back from her amazing trip and we now have a new theme for the Gallery this week: The letter C. I was wondering about taking a picture of Champagne, or cake, or maybe even chocolate. Any one of which I am well known for. The latter moreso than the former, admittedly. But then on Monday night an email dropped into my inbox that made me squeal
It is a shame but I can’t. I like to think of myself as a forward thinking woman, and as a feminist but I can’t bring myself to be defined by that word. I am fiercely supportive of women. Like to stand up for women whenever I can. Was inspired by women in Africa making a change for themselves and their families. But call myself a feminist? I am not
Or more appropriately misplaced apostrophes. That is the subject of my Ranty Friday this week. I am sick of them. Seeing apostrophes in the wrong place in documents produced by companies. And it is hardly difficult. Why do people find it so hard to get it right? I saw this picture in a garden centre last December and it made me scream. Not just one poster but all over the
Team Honk’s engagement with Comic Relief started off as firmly being about fund raising. That was what I had in mind when I contacted Emma Freud about getting bloggers on board. And it was that in mind that Annie and I went to visit them in December. Forty eight hours for three of us in Ghana came about as an off shoot of that. An amazing off shoot. A life
With all this news of a meteorite falling to the ground in Russia it seemed to make sense that this recently published book be the Mummy Barrow Book Club Selection for March. Alex, our central character is hit on the head by a meteorite at a young age and it quite literally changes his life.
Oh yes, this week’s Ranty Friday is all about passports and the nonsense unfathomable form we have to fill in Now I like to think of myself as relatively intelligent. I dont have a maths GCSE and I am rubbish at grammar but I get by. English is my first language so red tape and form filling is relatively straight forward generally. Until it comes to filling in passport applications.
My ears were pricked when I heard about a new study being discussed this week. A study done in the US by Dr Jennifer Kam recently that looked at 500 high school pupils and their conversations with their parents about cigarettes, marijuana and alcohol. And whether parents should be admitting to taking drugs.
Earlier in the week I read this story. Mother of eleven has six bed council house built Now I am not going to judge this lady. I know nothing about her and at the end of the day, whether anybody likes it or not, she is entitled to a house. She obviously meets certain criteria set by the Council who have agreed to house her.
Good morning and thank you for your email. I always love getting emails from you (either PR or SEO expert, or website owner who has something lovely to sell) or other people within your field, it brightens my otherwise dull day no end. You often offer me a product to review that I have not seen before. Or along to an event that may not have been on my radar.
That is how it is under British Law, isn’t it? You are innocent until proven guilty. Well it appears you might be wrong to assume that these days. I was shocked when Michael Le Vell was arrested a couple of years ago on suspicion of some pretty awful crimes. And was also then surprised when he was then released because there was deemed to be insufficient evidence to bring about
No not me. Other people doing it. This week’s Ranty Friday is all about people shouting down the phone from the first syllable out of their mouths. You know those phone calls that start with somebody basically shouting at you down the phone. It has happened to me twice this week and I have had enough of it.
Girls. I have spent a lot of time with girls recently. A great songstress once sang that sisters were doing it for themselves and by goodness I saw that in Ghana. All about girls and whilst I was never a fan of the Spice Girls, girl power. And as a mum of two girls I know how important it is to teach the next generation of girls that they can