A lifestyle blog
An odd title for a post you might think. Well let me explain. But first of all, have you done something with your hair? You have haven’t you? And have you been working out? You look really well at the moment. Sorry, I digress My dad is on the organising committee for this and is in charge of securing prizes for the raffle. So this post is a bit of
I am going to keep this brief on account of the fact I am on holiday and trying to relax. But I know people like to link up to Ranty Friday and I like reading them so wanted to still do a post. But it is going to be short. KT HOPKINS PLEASE JUST STOP. I IMPLORE YOU. STOP. I DON’T KNOW WHAT PLANET YOU ARE ON. OR WHY YOU
I always find it takes a while to get into a holiday. To wind down and to feel that “ahhhh I am on holiday finally” feeling. And I know that all islands are sort of horizontal because if they were vertical we would all fall off them, but Barbados feels more horizontal than most. For the past few years we have been coming to Barbados to a villa that is
World Photography Day was on Monday and to celebrate this the theme on The Gallery this week is to photograph something on Monday. Anything, wherever you were on that day, to show what you were up to on World Photography Day. Well this was my Monday. And I hate to brag. But how lush is this? Barbados.
Funny old thing souvenirs from holidays. I have many. From pebbles taken off a beach on our honeymoon, to fridge magnets from our weekend in Dublin to the thousands of photographs that fill up our stand alone storage disk. All of them are souvenirs of trips we have taken in the past. Mementos with which to remember the trip. My whistle stop forty eight hours in Ghana in February didn’t
Odd one this week on Ranty Friday but this is something that really does make me rant. And actually shout at people as I drive past at 70mph. The hard shoulder, the place you have to sit and wait for the recovery service if you break down. No not the place for a wee, or for your child to have a wee, or for you to check the map. Those
Relax. That is the theme for this week’s post on The Gallery. Relax?!!!! Are you insane? How the hell is that possible? What a few weeks it has been, and this week is no better. My life is just madness at the moment and I am struggling to keep all the balls I have to juggle up in the air so relaxing is light on the ground and it
“Are you going this year? I can’t decide” “Well, yeah, actually I am” “It was really professional last year and I am not sure I am high brow enough to attend” “Yeah that worries me too. And what worries me more is that I am on one of the panels, speaking” “What? Shut up” “No you shut up. An actual panel with the actual Louise Mensch, Helen Lewis, Jack Munroe
In my youth it was a sign of a good night if you ended up lying on the pavement at the end of an evening. It is not usual, however, in middle age to start an evening that way. But on Thursday night that is exactly what we did. And exactly how one of my best friend’s Sarah started her birthday weekend, not ended it. Somerset House runs a season
Ranty Friday this week is about offensive T shirts and why, well, why I find them offensive. Whilst strolling around our local market last Sunday I saw a lady, of a similar age to me, walk towards me wearing that T-shirt. I was stunned. Nay, disgusted actually. A) why would you buy a T-shirt like that; B) why would you wear it out in public? I get that the
I make no secret of my love for Twitter. Nor my love for the news; wanting to know what is going on in the world several times a day. This week it feels as though Twitter has taken a real pounding in the press in a way that telephone companies have never taken a pounding for allowing hoax or abusive phone calls to be made (but that is a whole
Took me a while to find a picture for The Gallery this week. I don’t have many pics that show “play” as my three teens are more likely to be playing Candy Crush on their tablet or something on the PS3, neither of which are terribly photogenic situations. So I had a rummage through the archives and found this, which made me laugh. You will by now know that we
