A lifestyle blog
I was contacted by Comic Relief this week to ask if I would like to come along to an event with which they are involved. Enough Food For Everyone IF, is a coalition of over 200 UK organisations campaigning for action by G8 leaders to eliminate hunger. Launched last week Big IF London is a huge public rally taking place in London’s Hyde Park on Saturday 8th June. And I
When I say “homeless person” what do you think of? A drug addict sleeping under a bridge? An alcoholic sleeping on a park bench? An ex convict sleeping on a camp bed in a half way house? A Big Issue Seller? What if I told you a couple of my friends were homeless? And not only that but that they were homeless because of something other than one of the
There is no theme for the Gallery this week but I thought I would show you a picture anyway. Well because that is what Wednesday is all about for me on the blog now. I rejoiced last week when something in Karen Millen fitted me. I love Karen Millen but she doesn’t cater to those of us that are large of nork or arse so it is rare I can
I read the sad news that KT Tunstall’s four year marriage had ended this week. Sad, but nothing remarkable in that or really worth me blogging about you might think. I found myself singing her “Suddenly I see” track in Specsaver’s this morning after I put on my new glasses this morning. We are fans of hers. We have seen her before, a couple of times in fact and she
No I am not ranty about unhealthy lifestyles, per se. Blimey, I am in no position to speak about unhealthy lifestyles (and any suggestions I may have had a biscuit for breakfast earlier this week, and I don’t mean one of those overpriced breakfast biscuit things, I mean a Digestive, is unfounded). I am ranty about a recent study that has found that, apparently, soap operas are promoting unhealthy lifestyles
I hate it. And I don’t say that lightly. I am a huge fan of social media (but then you know that) and yesterday morning I adored it more than ever. I learned I was a finalist in the Brilliance in Blogging awards (into the final six) in the Social Media category, but more about that in another post. By 4pm I hated it. News had broken on Twitter of
oh lordy. I wonder if Tara knew we had planned a party on Saturday night when she plucked this theme out of the ether on Friday for The Gallery this week. Drink. Drink I did. I am ashamed to say. Well it was for Mr B’s birthday and also because Eurovision was on and I was trying to avoid it. And because we had been sent an amazing blender to
London Dungeon — A review When I was asked if I would like to review the London Dungeons I wasn’t sure I could. Not because of any constraints on our diary but because I had heard it was super scary. So scary that grown women had to leave via the nearest “emergency exit”. Hmm well that sounds like a challenge to me and having done Thorpe Park scary rides, well
As so often happens with Ranty Friday, this isn’t the post I was going to publish today. I have five Ranty Fridays in draft as lots of things recently have annoyed me so I start the posts and then publish them in turn. This week’s has been bumped. Because yesterday I saw the above picture. Okay a picture that was taken in 2007 but that doesn’t make it any less
oooh new…. new shiny shiny things. I love new things. Who doesn’t? What to show you that is new? The new things I have been sent to review? Do you want to see a tube of hair removal cream? No, thought not. Ummmm…. how about the face cream that I was also sent to review? Ah no, I know.
Fifty feels like a real landmark birthday, more so than any that precede it. And so I wondered what might be on a 50 things to do before you are 50 list. After all I have written a “50 things I have learned as I turn 50” post, so this the list of things I should have done rather than have done. And maybe shouldn’t! This isn’t my list, it is
Yes I know, this is a post about blogging…. I know… I know… a blog should never talk about blogging. I know the rules. But do you know what? I don’t care. Today I am breaking the rules. It is just two years since I started blogging and I think you all know how passionately I feel about it now. How much it has become a part of my life.
