This is a personal one on Ranty Friday today. So forgive me. On Wednesday night my daughter, the lovely C, got a phone call from an employee at Bowlplex in Basingstoke to say she was banned from entering the premises for six months. Right after she had been in. And had been in last month, and a couple of times in the previous few months. What had she done? Worked
Musings
Being fat
What must it be like for a child who’s parent is constantly grumbling about being fat? I hadn’t really thought about it before this week. I do a lot of reading on the internet. In fact the vast majority of my reading I do online. Downloaded books, magazines I subscribe too, even my daily edition of the Times, all delivered to my Nexus. It is rare, therefore, that I
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Musings
The Gallery — Dads
Ah, Dads over on The Gallery this week. And knowing this was the theme for this week I took a photo specifically for it (I don’t normally do that, I prefer to hunt through the old ones). That is my dad. I am the only person who gets to call him dad, you can call him Neil. If you are the teens you call him Pom Pom (C couldn’t
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Musings
Charles Saatchi and Stuart Hall
It’s been a bad week for women and justice. First of all yesterday Stuart Hall got sentenced to 15 months for offences against young girls, some as young as 9. Thirteen women in fact. Women that he initally said were part of a “vendetta against people in the public eye”. Two months ago he admitted to his crimes. He didn’t hold his hands up and admit to them immediately, he
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Musings
Should bloggers write a negative review?
It is a question that I see asked regularly in blogging forums. “I have been sent this to review but I hate it, should I write a negative review?”. My answer is always yes. As bloggers we value the trust our readers have in us to be honest when reviewing something and if never write bad stuff then the internet is just awash with praise. The fact that there is
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Musings
Ranty Friday — Revels
I can hardly believe I am starting a rant about chocolates but rant I shall, for this is Ranty Friday. This week I treated myself (I wish Treats would come back. If only so I can tell my joke: How do you get a peanut out of your ear? Pour in chocolate and it comes out a Treat. That joke doesn’t work with M&Ms) to a bag of Revels. I
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Nurturing
The Tea Maker from Sage Appliances and Heston Blumenthal — A review
The Tea Maker from Sage Appliances and Heston Blumental has arrived! And boy is it fabulous Last week really was a week of two halves. Monday started with me interviewing Myleene Klass, Friday saw me in A&E for three hours with a suspected broken ankle. But in the middle something happened that made my month. My year even. A Sage tea maker arrived. You might not have heard of
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Musings
The Gallery — Inspirational Women
Tara has gone for Inspirational Women as the theme for The Gallery this week in light of the news that when Elizabeth Fry is removed from £5 notes this week, women are no longer going to feature on any Bank of England notes. This has, quite rightly, caused outrage. A petition has been started to show that there are so many inspirational women in history, why are none of them
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Musings
Where I Live — Indoors
The lovely Michelle over at The American Resident has been doing some blog hop / linkys for people to document “Where I Live” and this week the theme is “Indoors”; Where I live — Indoors. I thought this was so fabulous that I would join in as her post is about the art she loves and about working from home, something I really relate to. Previous themes have included cities,
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Musings
Ranty Friday — Women
Well clearly I am not ranting on Ranty Friday about women full stop (do I now put a full stop after the full stop?) what with me being one and all that. What I AM ranting about though is women that belittle other women. I am seeing more and more of it recently and it makes me cringe. Women picking on women. Putting them down and just being plain nasty. Belittling
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Musings
The Gallery — Two
Two A simple enough theme on The Gallery this week, but what to show. The two of us? Two of my children (then what about the third? Which one to leave out?). Two glasses ? (too much booze chatter recently). And then on Saturday night we went out to friends for a barbecue and I saw my chance. Two photos. Of two couples.
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Musings
Mummy Barrow Loves — June
I have a real mixed bag of things to show you on “Mummy Barrow loves” this month. So shall we just get cracking? We have everything this month from a book and a game to pancakes and tea.