I recently heard about a great new farmers market from Southwestsix when I saw her tweets about it and a link to her own review. “That sounds right up my street”, I thought. And so, with a free Sunday, we decided to go along and see for ourselves Located at the New Kings Road School it is run by a group called London Farmers Markets. The market is in the
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Musings
Depression really is a bastard
I had a lovely morning today, carefree, kicking leaves like a two year old, enjoying the sun. And then I read my Twitter feed to see the breaking news that Gary Speed had died, aged 42, apparently by taking his own life. It made me realise, once again, that life is so short. I don’t know Gary Speed. I know he is something to do with football but what I
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“Give as you live”
I read a blog post yesterday by the always gorgeous GetLippie who had been introduced to a website called Give as you Live. The idea is that you register on the website (which is free and very easy to do) and then you shop on line, via Give to Live, using hundreds of online retailers, and a small commission is paid by the retailer to a charity of your choosing.
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Tattoos. I am not a fan but….
I have one. So how does that work? When I say I am not keen, I am not. I don’t like seeing heavily tattooed people, either men or women. But especially women. Arms heavily coloured, and increasingly legs. I often think “that is going to look bloody stupid when they are 70”. Yet I have one. Is it a cute one? Nope. Is it hidden? Nope. It is black and
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C-sections to be available for all who demand them?
This has been announced today and I have to say that I do not agree with this at all. And I say that as somebody who has had three C-sections on health grounds. I had gestational diabetes with each of my pregnancies which resulted in the first two being whoppers (over 10lbs) so I had elective C-sections. E, my third, was smaller (still 9lbs) but I was advised that having
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Britmums Prompt: Children
This week’s Britmums prompt centres around children and asks the following three questions: One thing I do that makes my child laugh is… One thing that my child does that makes ME laugh is… The best rule in our house is… So here are my answers! What I do to make them laugh My response to this one would be “just being me”. I try to make life fun and
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Do you believe in ghosts?
I saw this is a tweet recently and it got me thinking because I do. But I have never really admitted it before as “non-believers” then look at you as somebody who has just said you like eating kittens. I am not sure I believe all that happens on “Most Haunted” or that photographs with orbs are entirely real but I definitely believe that a presence can be felt. Let
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Britmums prompt: A few thanks
This week’s Britmum prompt is: Thanksgiving…share with us what you are grateful for. I have been thinking about this prompt all week (they are published on a Sunday and then you have all week to write your post, if you wish) because there are so many things that I am grateful for that I didn’t really know where to start. So I am just going to do it. My
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The Guinness Book of Records
One book, more than any other in the world, symbolises Christmas to me. It is one of those books that somebody always received at Christmas and would spend all afternoon reading out another “amazing fact”. Seeing it in the shops in December was to me what the Coke advert is to ITV: “The holidays are coming” This book is indeed the world’s best selling copyrighted book (presumably the Bible does
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Finally Cliff Richard gets banned from the radio
At last the Daily Mail publish something we can all agree with and if you are like me or my friend Tasha, you can rejoice at the news that Cliff Richard will be banned from a new radio station. Absolute Radio are launching a new radio station later this month dedicated to the 60s. They already have Absolute 80s / 90s / 00s / classic rock etc and this new
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I’ve a confession to make …
and this is not easy. You are going to judge me and you may not want to be my friend anymore. This confession may cause me to be disowned and excluded by most of society. I have an addiction you see. And it isn’t something that I think there is a support group for. But I think there should be because I am sure I am not alone. Though I
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Where do you do it?
Don’t panic. Settle down. This is perfectly suitable for children. I was tagged by the gorgeous Gemma who was asked Where do you do it by another blogger, Bibsey The idea being that you take a photo and explain a little about where you blog. BLOG. You see, told you it was clean. And so here you have it: this is where I blog when I have time to