A lifestyle blog
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
I hadn’t until recently when I received an email asking me if I fancied trying it out. It came at a time when my headaches were at an all time high and my healthy eating was at an all time low. The idea is a simple one, three days of nutritious soups and broth to help cleanse and detox your digestive system, leaving you feeling so much better at
I wrote about this phrase four years ago: Lessons to be learned in the wake of the Baby P case. “Lessons will be learned“. And yet here we are, with a different situation four years later but still hearing the same phrase being trotted out. I am sick of it. How many more people have to die before these bloody lessons are learned? Once again I wake up
World Gin Day 2017 is here! What a week. What a sodding week. And it is not getting any better is it? I have a bit of a “no politics” rule at home because we are all often on opposite sides of debates and I just can’t stand the arguing, though it isnt proper arguing it is just healthy debate. I tend to walk away when it
Dear BBC Like many people on Saturday night I was just thinking about taking the dog for a walk before going to bed when a news alert popped up on my phone that there was an “incident” developing at London Bridge. We all know that “incident” is not a word used lightly these days and that this was clearly a developing story. Knowing that friends were in the
