I am not a huge fan of New Year`s Eve.   All that looking back over the past 12 months and reflecting whilst looking forward to the next is so not me.   It is depressing, quite frankly.   Because the things that happened in 2012 that upset me could well happen again in 2013.    And I don’t want to start a new year with huge expectations of “This

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It’s a chore isn’t it?  Something to have endless sleepless nights over.   To ponder for hours. Just how do you cut a cake into anything other than four? I don’t know and I don’t care.   There is never any reason for cutting a cake into more than four as far as I am concerned. If there are eight of you, buy two cakes.   For six slices you

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Funny old day, Boxing Day.   One of those age old traditions that is irrelevant in today’s times.    We no longer need to give our servants the day off and a box of leftover food, so we instead spend the day rubbing our food babies, wondering what to do with 15kg of left over turkey or getting up at 4am to go to the sales. For me it is

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We are done.   The Christmas tree is up, the fridge is full to bursting, presents are wrapped.   Turkey is in the cool box ready for the oven later.   Stuffing balls are made and sausages are wrapped in bacon. Father Christmas doesn’t bring presents to our house as there are no small children here and He has lots of other deliveries to make.   So all our presents

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No not what Americans call cake icing. Frosting. It is the new craze apparently.   First there was planking (making like a plank).   Then there was milking (tipping a pint of milk over your head).   Followed by Porting (tipping a bottle of Port over your head.   All done in strange locations and photographed for posterity uploading to the internet. Frosting apparently is pretending it is not cold and

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Well is Armageddon happening today or not? I can’t be doing with all this uncertainty to be honest.   I need specifics that I can deal with.   If it is, it is.  That is fine.   But all this faffing around with “is it, isn’t it” is starting to do my head in quite frankly. For a start off, what time is this thing meant to be kicking off?

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I have spent a fair amount of time sorting out Christmas.  Organising various food deliveries, tidying the spare bedroom, buying presents for teachers, friends, grown ups, teenagers and the dog.   And I have decided that people fall into one of four categories: They give you a list.   In the case of my children when they were small the list also  had Argos Catalogue numbers on it. You know

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  It has been a while since I was tagged in a meme and asked to answer some questions so it was lovely to see my name on Jayne’s blog post about Christmas. So here goes: What is your favourite thing about Christmas? Got to be not working and spending time with the family.   The children are off work and school, Mr B is home, we stock up the

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  The Jackpot Joy Duck cruising down the Thames this week!  Tis I….  Sort of.  

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Please please please re think this “constitutional right”  about guns. We went to bed last night with the breaking news of yet another horrific massacre in the US by a lone gun man.  Over 20 innocent people in Newtown murdered in a matter of minutes. This has to stop. Why do Americans need to carry a gun?  Don’t give me a speech about it being a right.   Why do

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Earlier this week Conservative MP David Davies is quoted as saying the following with regards to changes in legislation surrounding gay marriage being permitted in church: “I think most people are very tolerant and have no problem at all if people are gay but – and I hate to say this, in a way, because I expect it’s going to cause controversy – but I think most parents would prefer

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