Ranty Friday this week and I am talking about the C word. To me the most offensive of any word and one that I cannot bring myself to ever use. Is it right to use it?
Musings
The Gallery — A Younger Me
Well this is a challenge as I don’t have many photos of me looking much younger. I know lots exist in my parent’s house, squirrelled away in albums, but I can’t get my hands on them. So this week it is a few pictures of “A Younger Me” for The Gallery that I happen to have on Facebook.
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Musings
Ranty Friday — Name Shortening
Have I ever introduced myself to you as Tan? Have you EVER heard me call myself that? Has anybody around me ever called me that? No. Somebody did once but it was the last thing she said for a while.
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Musings
Use one word to describe yourself
It’s hard isnt it? One word that sums you up. I had to think about it when Tara, who runs The Gallery linky, asked me a few months ago. Tara was putting together a group of 25 bloggers and asking them to describe themselves. The results are here: Describe yourself in one word.
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Musings
Can’t cook — Can’t cook — Mummy Barrow’s chicken pie
Yep, you got that right. Not can’t cook, won’t cook. Just can’t cook, can’t cook. My inability to cook is legendary so anything I do cook needs to be fairly idiot proof. Like my chicken pie. I made this for the first time in ages last month and thought “hmm this is so simple yet so fabulous I need to blog the recipe”. So here it is, told you it
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Musings
Talking to children about alcohol
I have never talked to my children about alcohol. So if a campaign running at the moment is to be believed that must make me an irresponsible parent. “Who is the designated talker?” scream huge adverts in magazines. Er there isn’t one in this house. So am I failing my children? Am I bringing them up to be alcoholics?
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Musings
Zapper. Dibber. Fat Controller. What do you call yours?
What do you call your remote control? When I was asked if I wanted to have a look at some research that had recently been done on the habits of the nation’s TV remote controls I was intrigued. What DO people call theirs?
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Musings
Ranty Friday — Think Bike
We hear this campaign on the radio alot. Cars are the bad guys and out there to kill motorcyclists. We need to “Think Bike” at every junction, cross road, turning, exit blah blah. Well I am sorry but Ranty Friday this week is about the fact I am sick of being painted as the bad guy to motorcyclists. If my experience is anything to go by the biggest cause of
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Exploring
Thorpe Park Fright Night — A review
Thorpe Park Fright Night — A review If you read this blog regularly you will know that we are huge fans of Thorpe Park. It is only up the road and when the teens want to do something with their mates it is always our first stop. J decided he wanted to go this week with a couple of mates and experience Fright Night. Mr B experiences Fright Night seven
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Musings
The Gallery — Halloween
It staggers me that the Halloween industry in this country is now worth over £280 Million a year. That is just bonkers. Most people don’t even know what Halloween is actually about. I also learned this week that Tesco has a “Head of Pumpkins” (“Is that actually on her CV?” said C when I told her) and that our local big Tesco is where more of the 1.8 million pumpkins
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Exploring
Mercure Bristol and National Chocolate week. — AD
Mercure Bristol and National Chocolate week “I have been asked if we want to go to Bristol for a chocolatey weekend as part of National Chocolate Week. It’s to stay at the Mercure and sample their “Chocolate Unwrapped” experience. It includes dinner, chocolate Martinis, overnight stay in the hotel, and a spa treatment each with a chocolate massage“ “Bristol? You would go to Aberdeen for that wouldn’t you?!” “I
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Musings
Ranty Friday — Food packaging
Ranty Friday this week is about something that I have often grumbled about. Food packaging drives me nuts. Not just the sheer volume of it at times but how annoying it is to actually rip it open. You need to cut it / puncture it / try and pull it… you name it, it is not straightforward.