A lifestyle blog
The irony wasn’t lost on me that as I read this article: Garbage about being amazing because we get up at 4am earlier in the week I was in fact lying in bed at 3am wide awake and resolutely refusing to get up. Because I didn’t need to. Nobody needs to get up at 4am. Unless they are feeding a baby Or Louise Minchin Or working shifts. You really don’t
Yesterday was International Gin and Tonic Day so I thought I would mark this occasion in the week with sharing some fun facts about gin, so here are the 7 things I have learned since I started drinking gin. Little did I know back then that one day I would have a whole category on my blog dedicated to gin. Since starting to drink a few years ago I have
Just the most stunning window on Window Wednesday this week, from Winchester Cathedral. The window above might be one of the most impressive windows I have ever seen. And Winchester Cathedral might be one of the most impressive buildings I have ever entered, it being one of the largest cathedrals in Europe. Even back in the day (and I am talking 1500 years) ago it was a place of importance.
It was a dark day yesterday. With the returning of a not guilty verdict in the Ched Evans Case it seems the British judiciary has taken a nasty turn. A man formally convicted of rape has had his sentence overturned by his lawyers throwing the victim under a bus. Lawyers paid for by his future father in law who has thought nothing of defending a man who has cheated
You may have missed it but this week an Indian Airline has introduced Child Free zones on flights. This seems to have split the traveling community straight down the middle with half saying “Hoorah, keep the screaming brats away from me” and the other half saying “stop being a pompous arse, you were a child once”. It might not surprise you to know I am in the latter group.
I was going to start this blog post with a bit about Unilever’s massive profits so I googled “Unilever Profit 2015” and up popped their entire published financial statement for the year. It made for interesting reading until I got to the point where the CEO said We are further strengthening our innovation funnel while shortening innovation cycle times, stepping up our digital capabilities and rolling out a global
This is another National Trust property that is just down the road from us and where we ended up on Sunday when I declared I was going out for an hour. Little did I know how steeped in history it was, and linked to one of my favourite children’s books of all time, thanks to E H Shepard. I wrote about him, and his drawing of the mill appearing
There’s wind on the river and wind on the hill . . . There’s a dark dead water-wheel under the mill! I saw a fly which had just been drowned- And I know where a rabbit goes into the ground! When my children were little I was ever so slightly obsessed with Winnie the Pooh. With the stories, the poems, the friendships in the stories, and the illustrations.
Don’t look at me like that. Red kidney bean chocolate cake is an actual thing, made with red kidney beans, and if you watched Best Home Cook on BBC last week you will see that one of the contestants attempted this in one of the rounds That programme reminded me that I had written this post a few years ago having made my own. Made partly because I was
I remember Furby the first time around. They were the MUST HAVE Christmas present one year when my three were small. It had to be a red one. The red ones were sold out. The only parenting issue worse than a sold out Christmas present on Christmas Eve is stepping on Lego at 3am. There is nothing else. There was nothing else that Santa could do that year we
Sport in this house is a case of love it and embrace it, or, well, leave the room. We have all the sport packages Sky can offer with all the additional sport channels you can find. We have online betting apps (always bet responsibly kids) and it is a huge part of our weekends. Not playing it ourselves, don’t be ridiculous. Watching it on TV though. If
You are expecting your first baby? Congratulations! You have a lot of new and exciting adventures ahead of you. But at the same time you are also heading into the unknown – while you may have cooed over your friends babies and waved many colleagues off on maternity leave, actually going through these things for yourself can be daunting. While you have your nose buried in every baby book
