A lifestyle blog
Supporting is something that I think we can all do more of, either at home, or as part of a larger community. When I decided this year to really focus more on the four tenets I want to be known for supporting was definitely one of them.
This category will be where posts of support to others will live. It will feature people or causes I am supporting directly, discuss ways people can support their own passions, or I will share stories of support others have received.
Today feels like something historic is happening. Something monumental. Something spectacular. Something that is set to change the lives of millions in less than two decades. Something that needs your support to happen, because without you the goals won’t work. In order to get these simple goals to work they need to be famous and we need to know about them so that world leaders don’t forget them.
I like full stops. I like that they signify the end of a sentence. You know where you are with a full stop. It tells you to breathe. To stop mid paragraph. You can look up when you get to the full stop. You can even go off and make a coffee. Put the book down in fact. Safe in the knowledge that the full stop told you
Apologies first of all if you got an email notification about a similarly named post yesterday. That is what happens when you try and get organised by planning posts for the week, and then don’t get around to writing the actual post whilst at the same time forgetting to cancel the auto publish. As you can probably tell it has been a crazy few months. The culmination of
. I have been meaning to write about this ever since we got back from Kenya and I think it is the perfect topic for this week’s Gallery theme of colour. HOVIC, was a hive activity, in fact one of the noisiest and busiest projects we saw during our time in Kenya. The boys were eating, dancing, hanging out of trees, having lessons, or just generally sitting around with their
. I kicked myself when we were on the maternity ward in Kisumu. As we walked out I spotted two ladies working away on sewing machines. I was behind the rest of the group so trying to catch up and I desperately wanted to take photos of the ladies to show my lovely mum in law who is a keen seamstress. There are, rightly, strict rules on taking
. It won’t have escaped your attention that I am a bit involved with Comic Relief this year. And also a lover of food. In fact if you don’t know those two facts about me you are clearly new. And won’t know that it is Mummy Barrow law that newbies send me biscuits. (Ed’s note: Get on with it Barrow). Oh yes. Right. So given that I am a huge
. On Saturday night Mr B and I had the honour of being invited to the Canvas Holidays 50th Anniversary ball in Edinburgh. We were one of five couples invited along because we have a special connection to the company. We even got mentioned in dispatches but Simon the MD before dinner which was hugely exciting, if ever so slightly embarrassing. As the night wore on there was a ceilidh,
Life can be strange sometimes. Actually a lot of what goes on in my life is strange, but that’s a different story. This story though concerns David Walliams. Four years ago I wrote this blog post after David swam the Thames for Sport Relief: David Walliams — My Hero. I thought David should be Knighted. I had forgotten that I had written the post to be honest,
. I don’t like porridge. Horrid lumpy stuff that feels a bit too worthy for my liking. You eat it because it is slow release blah de blah but in reality what you really want is an almond croissant. Well you do if you are me. And then I heard about something called Power Porridge and suddenly porridge sounded a bit more interesting. Power Porridge is made at the
. Tomorrow, Thursday 26th February, in a Comic Relief first, the Red Nose Day twitter feed will be dedicated to the issue of dementia. The idea is to give people living with dementia the chance to share the realities of living with the illness and to raise the profile of the issue in the UK using #DementiaDiaries. 850,000 people in the UK have dementia. [i] We will get a unique insight into life with dementia
. You know when you are so tired you can’t think straight? You haven’t slept in 30+ hours, you have gone from scraping frost off your car one morning to standing in a hospital garden 24 hours later and it is 30+ degrees? Your body doesn’t really know which way is up. And you are so tired your eyes won’t focus? And then you get a second
. When Jonnie went off to Kenya for a month with the school a couple of years ago I was very envious. Not the climbing Mt Kenya bit. Nor the sleeping in tents bit. Or in fact the eating fish casserole bit. Especially not the “no phones, no internet” for a month bit. The bit that really made me envious was going off with friends to see