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I wasn’t really ready for it if I am honest. Speech day had been in my diary for a few months, I had booked the day off work and I had made sure the RSVP slip for the after presentation BBQ had been returned. But as the day approached it hit me. This was it. The last of my three children was leaving school. This is it.
My gin of the month for July is One Gin, a gin I whose story I have followed for a while, but that I only got to taste for the first time last month. I first came across it on Kickstarter, the crowd funding site and then in one of those weird twists of fate that happen sometimes I was invited to the launch party as a roving reporter
A rare blog from me, but I thought I would give you my perspective on our recent weekend away, before T gives you hers later in the week. Waterside Holiday Park invited us to come and try one of their new Safari Tents and T picked the first weekend in July, pretty much at random. Well, it was after exams had finished so there shouldn’t be a reason why
That is me above, right now. It isn’t, obvs, but it might as well be. So, regular readers will know that back in January another car drove into mine. Not nearly as dramatic as it sounds, I was stationary, he was doing 3 miles an hour. The damage to my car was minimal and as my car is seven years old I debated not getting the damage repaired at
Sandham Memorial Chapel is one of those unexpected gems that you wouldn’t know existed unless you had done your homework. You can’t even really see it from the road, other than a sign on the pavement, and a car park across the road featuring the National Trust logo. Mr B and his parents had visited a few years ago but I had been working so in search of something
We went to Brighton a couple of weeks ago and everywhere we went there are groups of women with sashes declaring who was the bride, mother of the bride, granny of the bride etc. Grown women wandering around the town centre on a Saturday afternoon with penises on headbands and L plates round their necks. If I am honest, it all looked a bit, what’s the word? Tragic. One
That’s what it boils down. Twelve kilos in 12 days. Lost. Gone forever. All as a result of doing the Chris James 12 day cleanse. I read the outer sleeve that came on my box of goodies nodding: Do your eyes and skin look fatigued? Do you sleep restlessly and wake up tired? Do you lack the willpower to kick bad habits? And do you suffer from mental lethargy?
Is Reducetarian the new balanced diet? For the past twelve days I have been vegan. Well that’s not technically true. I have been 98% vegan, except for the duck breast I had on a salad one evening and the wagyu burger I had last night I have avoided all animal products for almost a fortnight. As a committed meat eater this is a big thing for me. The whys will
No don’t pull that face. Don’t do what we all do when the adverts come on TV, and hit the fast forward. Bear with me for five minutes because we need to talk about tyres. Chances are you drive a car, or travel in a car with your family on a fairly regular basis. If you don’t, well you may be excused from today’s blog post. So,
The more I hear about Croatia the more I really want to visit. And right now I really need a holiday. I mean like I really need a holiday. I am exhausted and we don’t have a holiday booked this year (I am not counting the week in France at Easter, or the week in Malta coming up in September) so I am craving a stay at the
A couple of weekends ago Mr B said to me at lunchtime on Saturday “What do you want to do today?” My response was instant: “I don’t care, I just want to get out”. I love working from home but sometimes, particularly at the end of a week when he has been away and I haven’t left the house for a fortnight (other than a ten minute round trip to
A guide to smoking food Not the bad kind. My guide to smoking is the good kind, the kind that leaves you feeling like you have had a lovely flavoursome dinner. Not the one that leaves you reeking of nicotine and slowly doing untold damage to yourself. Smoking food is THE big thing at the moment. Just as pork can now only be pulled, and caramel salted, so many foods
