A lifestyle blog
Having read my post on punctuation last week, my lovely friend Jan sent me this. Simply saying on the reverse: Saw this and thought of you Good job she clarified it was because she had read my blog and it wasn’t just a general statement on my character! I love it
Yay, Tara is back from her amazing trip and we now have a new theme for the Gallery this week: The letter C. I was wondering about taking a picture of Champagne, or cake, or maybe even chocolate. Any one of which I am well known for. The latter moreso than the former, admittedly. But then on Monday night an email dropped into my inbox that made me squeal
It is a shame but I can’t. I like to think of myself as a forward thinking woman, and as a feminist but I can’t bring myself to be defined by that word. I am fiercely supportive of women. Like to stand up for women whenever I can. Was inspired by women in Africa making a change for themselves and their families. But call myself a feminist? I am not
Our first contact with Comic Relief was always about raising money for them. And getting bloggers to come together to do the same. But when my fellow Team Honk members suggested Snowdon, well I just knew I wasn’t doing that. I knew I couldn’t. I am not fit and doing something like that as part of a group was a disaster waiting to happen. Half way up Snowdon was not
Or more appropriately misplaced apostrophes. That is the subject of my Ranty Friday this week. I am sick of them. Seeing apostrophes in the wrong place in documents produced by companies. And it is hardly difficult. Why do people find it so hard to get it right? I saw this picture in a garden centre last December and it made me scream. Not just one poster but all over the
Team Honk’s engagement with Comic Relief started off as firmly being about fund raising. That was what I had in mind when I contacted Emma Freud about getting bloggers on board. And it was that in mind that Annie and I went to visit them in December. Forty eight hours for three of us in Ghana came about as an off shoot of that. An amazing off shoot. A life
With all this news of a meteorite falling to the ground in Russia it seemed to make sense that this recently published book be the Mummy Barrow Book Club Selection for March. Alex, our central character is hit on the head by a meteorite at a young age and it quite literally changes his life.
Since coming back from Ghana it has all been about fund raising for Comic Relief. The first of the fund raisers being an epic challenge to climb Snowdon (not by me. I was Chief Clipboard holder at the bottom with all the next of kin numbers). At 4pm on Saturday after seven hours in glorious sunshine (but scrabbling over snow) a small celebration took place.
Oh yes, this week’s Ranty Friday is all about passports and the nonsense unfathomable form we have to fill in Now I like to think of myself as relatively intelligent. I dont have a maths GCSE and I am rubbish at grammar but I get by. English is my first language so red tape and form filling is relatively straight forward generally. Until it comes to filling in passport applications.
No, I don’t mean that sense of “ahhhhh” as the first mouthful of wine hits your tongue at the end of a long week. I mean Wine Relief from Comic Relief. There seems to be nothing that Comic Relief don’t have a paw in (by the way, have you heard the speaking clock? Dial it from your landline, 10p goes to Comic Relief). And Wine Relief is just a brilliant
Vapiano Restaurant — A review I am not a big fan of “concept” restaurants. I often feel that the concept is just that and that they don’t really work for the customer. So when I heard about Vapiano Restaurant being huge in Europe it felt like a concept restaurant. Pasta made in front of you and you had to queue to order? I have been in restaurants where they
My ears were pricked when I heard about a new study being discussed this week. A study done in the US by Dr Jennifer Kam recently that looked at 500 high school pupils and their conversations with their parents about cigarettes, marijuana and alcohol. And whether parents should be admitting to taking drugs.
