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The Social Isolation Diaries — Week 10 Well this has been quite the week. First of all, the official stuff that has been going on that I want to document before I forget. We are still officially in lockdown but with some easing, so we can drive as far as we like but we can’t stay out overnight. It’s like being 10 again and knowing you have to
Percy Pig ice cream This post was originally written back in 2011 when Marks And Spencer first launched their Percy Pig ice cream lollies. The news they had now launched it in tub form came out recently and I couldnt have been more excited. Except because of the current restrictions on shopping, I cant get any! So in the meantime, here is a story of the
The Social Isolation Diaries — Week 9 Yes, fluffy socks because it has been freezing at times this week! So here we are, into week 9 of lockdown and a week after Boris made his speech setting out his “road map for easing the lock down” we are still baffled by what he was trying to say. The government’s message telling us to “Stay at home” mutated into “stay alert”
Stuff I have found myself panic buying because of Coronavirus It started with a new sideboard. Though the use of the word “new” in that sentence would imply there was an old sideboard. There wasn’t, there has never been a sideboard in this house. Yet as soon as the lockdown was announced I decided we had to have one for the office which duly arrived several days later. Knowing
Social Isolation week 8 Here we are then, another week under our belts and still almost 500 people a day are losing their lives to this hideous illness. Countless thousands of others lie in hospital beds away from their loved ones, whilst underpaid care professionals to their very best whilst risking their own lives because there isn’t enough PPE. The longer this now goes on, the more I see of
Social isolation diaries week 7 The numbers this week are utterly depressing. 178,000 people have tested positive for Coronavirus and heartbreakingly 28,000 have passed away. The daily death rate is still somewhere between 400 and 800 every day yet Boris Johnson has said we are now passed the peak. I am really not sure I believe that. People are desperate to know when the lockdown will be lifted, but
I know we can’t visit National Trust properties at the moment but we went to Basildon Park a few months ago so I have finally got around to sharing the photos for Window Wednesday in the hope you can add it to your list of places to go when we are able to travel again Basildon Park is one of the most modern properties we have visited because although it
The social isolation diaries — week 6 If we didn’t suspect it already this was the week that we finally realised Donald Trump is batshit crazy. He suggested this week that if bleach and disinfectant can kill germs on surfaces in a minute why don’t we start injecting it into ourselves in an effort to kill Coronavirus. No, seriously he did. Within 24 hours the likes of Dettol
A quick and easy lemonade scones recipe I have been making this recipe for about 20 years, simply because the first time I heard about it I thought it was just too bonkers to be serious. And then once I had done it a few times and realised it did actually work it became my “go to” scone recipe. It is also a great way of getting children involved in
I realised recently whilst doing some blog admin that I have quite a few ice cream recipes so I have rounded them up into my top five ice cream recipes to make it easier to find them all! Ice cream is one of those magic desserts for me. It can be really mundane or it can be knock your socks off incredible, and actually it isnt a case of the
National Tea Day As National Tea Day on April 21st in the UK is a day I felt I couldn’t let go unnoticed given that my actual name is T. Okay so maybe that is my nickname but it still feels like a day I should mark. There is also an International Tea Day in December should you want to read a post I wrote about that a few
The social isolation diaries — week 5 Is it really week 5? It feels so much longer than that to be honest, and in reality it actually is. The last time I went out for anything other than the supermarket was on March 11th when I went to Westfield for the day with the girls. Even then we knew lockdown was coming, and debated whether we should have gone at
