My Love Story I was challenged to write down my “love story” which is actually not that straight forward as it isn’t your typical “we met, we fell in love and got married” kinda story. Added to which my “love” reads my blog. As do my children. And parents. Plus I really don’t want to embarrass anybody or make anyone vomit. So here goes. I had recently become a single mum
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It’s good to be back. Or is it?
Don’t get me wrong, I love travelling. I have been lucky enough to have done alot of it over the past 40 years, from campsites in France to amazing business trips to ski holidays to Caribbean beach holidays. I am priveleged to have seen an awful lot of the world. Indeed I lived in Saudi Arabia for six years (going out initially on a three month contract two weeks after
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Paris is just … well…. dirty.
People talk about Paris being the city of romance. Of love. Of wandering couples arm in arm, gazing adoringly at each other or sitting in the park sharing vin et pain. Certainly there was some of that. Today, though, two other things struck me. The first was that the so called Red Light district is right in the middle of the main route from the tourist attractions in the
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Musings
Some of the many reasons I love Twitter….
If you know me at all you will know I am a Twitter addict. My Tweets are rapidly approaching 16,000 and I think about 8 of those have been of any importance. Mr B quickly realised that if he didnt join Twitter too he would never be able to communicate with me at all and so signed up. One of the first people he followed was @stephenfry. Everybody follows him.
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How men and women prepare for a weekend away
A weekend away recently made me ponder how men and women prepare for a weekend away completely differently. For Christmas my parents gave us an all expenses trip to France and an offer of looking after the children and the dog. So as soon as we heard April 29th was to be a bank holiday we booked our weekend away to make the most of that “free day”. That
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Musings
So this is it….. I am now a blogger
So this is it then, I am now a blogger I cannot believe I am actually doing this. Blogging. Ooh get me. The very idea that anybody would want to read what I have to say on a regular basis. Well, I suppose several hundred Twitter followers cannot be wrong. Robots? What you mean some of those might not be actual real people? Right, so this is going to