It is without a hint of irony that I decided to stay silent about my thoughts on the #TwitterSilence before Sunday. And in fact I wasn’t really going to take part in at all. I understood the point behind it but wasn’t sure I could stay silent, you know me. What has happened since though has backed up why the event had to happen. It was a group of people
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Warner Bros Studio tour — The Making of Harry Potter
Warner Bros Studio tour — The Making of Harry Potter “What shall we do for the day when we meet up with your uncle Gavin on August 3rd?” said my mum. My uncle is younger than me (long story) and lives in the US. He was over here for three weeks with his wife and two children and the only day we were free to meet up with them,
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Great News from Thorpe Park
This post is brought to you in association with Thorpe Park (though not for any monetary gain on my part! I just want to share it with you) You know how much fun we had we went recently (and I how brave I was on the rollercoasters ) when we went to Thorpe Park, well I thought I would share some info from them with you now the summer holidays
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Ranty Friday — Simon Cowell’s Baby
Yes, Ranty Friday this week is about Simon Cowell’s baby. Not ranting AT the baby you understand, I feel sorry for the poor embryo. I am not even ranting at Simon Cowell or the young lady who is carrying said child. Though I suspect Mr Silverman, married to said lady might have had a few choice words to say. No I am ranting at the media’s obsession with this story.
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Family cruising with Royal Caribbean — A review
It was during a recent episode of the cruise on BBC2 just as theywere talking about the average age of their customer being 68 that an email came through with our itinerary for a day aboard The Independence of the Seas. Mr B’s heart sank but I reassured him that Royal Caribbean cruises were as far removed from the ship in front of us on the TV as it was
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The Gallery — Door
Door. A single word for the theme on The Gallery this week but one that could mean so much. Do you often look at a door and wonder what is behind it? What does it lead to? With a firm interest in property I often look at doors between shops and wonder if they lead to a passageway behind the shops, or up to flats above? Is there happiness behind
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They say moving is stressful
Whoever “they” are. But they do, don’t they? Moving is the most stressful thing you can do according to league tables of such matters. Well they are wrong. Sort of. Those charts always suggest that moving house is the stressful thing. Well it isn’t. The house bit I mean. I tell you what is more stressful when it comes to moving. Blog host.
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Ranty Friday — OK magazine and Kate Middleton
Did you see this earlier on this week? I decided on Tuesday that it was this week’s Ranty Friday. In fact I nearly published this on Tuesday. As the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, was going into labour, OK magazine was beginning to circulate their first magazine celebrating the event. Oh isn’t that lovely? No. It was not. It was despicable. That is the front page, above. Focussing on how
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I’m on top of the world, mum
Seven little words: “I’m on top of the world, mum” was all it took to make me cry last night. Yesterday was a spectacularly rubbish day. Nothing in itself particularly disastrous but you know when you have one of those days where nothing goes right, everybody who phones you up is having a moan, you have a to do list that gets longer not shorter, and it is just a
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The Gallery — I Made This
What a great theme on The Gallery this week: I Made This. Generally speaking in our house I don’t make things. I do the clearing up after other people have made things, or buy the ingredients for other people to make things. I am the least crafty (and by that I don’t mean sneaky) person I know. So finding something I made that I could photograph was tricky. Unless it
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What’s the Story — July 22nd
I love a linky. I love the idea of joining blog posts together and really bringing the “community” into blogging. I was, therefore, quite excited when I heard last week that Charly from Podcast was starting a new linky this week because I knew it was one that I would like to join in with. Not sure I will be able to do it every week but certainly will as
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Hair chalking
What? No you shut up Hair chalking. Actual chalk in hair. Yes, it really is a thing. And how do I know this? Well because yesterday I got to try it out. No not on my hair you mad crazy fool. I am 43. And, well, I say I got to try it out…. What I actually did was order it on Amazon (other, possibly more tax compliant, websites are