A lifestyle blog
.Hot Cross Buns Recipe You know this thing where I can’t really cook? Well I can’t. Not really. I don’t really follow recipes properly and I often change things which means my kids do that arched eyebrow thing when they try something for the first time. This week that has happened with the above hot cross buns. They look like normal hot cross buns don’t they? Well they
. On Wednesday of this week I went online to order my mum some mother’s day flowers. It might be a tad late for some but my mum has been abroad for a few weeks so I decided to get them delivered when she was back in the country. Went to complete the order, and feeling lazy decided to use Paypal because I can’t remember my debit card details.
. This week a number of things have happened that have brought it home to me just how old I am now. Properly middle aged. I am pretty sure I won’t see 90 so 45 really is the hump in the middle of my life. And not in a maudlin way but this week I have been thinking about the signs I am getting old. The first sign being that
. They say that Africa gets under your skin. I don’t know who “they” actually are but “they are right. I have been lucky enough to go to Africa three times now with Comic Relief, although flying visits to Tanzania, Ghana and Kenya it has left me with a real taste for the continent. And I want to see more of it. I want a holiday in Africa because
. Sounds like an agenda for a cracking weekend, doesn’t it? Well in addition to that it is also the title of a book out tomorrow from Choccywoccydoodah, one of my all time favourite shops in the world. Though there are in fact two of them: the flagship store in Brighton and the Mothership in London. It goes beyond that though, Choccywoccy is not just a shop, it is
Dutch Speculaas Recipe. This time next week we will be heading home after spending Easter with Canvas Holidays in Dunirell. We are thrilled to be working with Canvas Holidays this year as they celebrate their 50th birthday, along with Mr B. It will be the first time I have been away with Canvas Holidays since I was about 12 so it is going to be great to see just how much
With the weather looking like it might brighten up a bit over the coming weeks and Easter on the horizon, our thoughts have turned to sorting out the house, ready for summer. Since this is easier, and cheaper, than getting my body ready for summer which is possibly what you thought this post was going to be about. First of all we have sorted out the small spare bedroom which
. There is no denying that things around here have been neglected recently. And whilst we have a cleaning lady to do the loos and kitchen and chuck the vacuum cleaner around once a week, the house is looking a bit shabby. This coupled with more sunlight streaming through filthy windows and there is no denying, I needed to get my finger out and get some cleaning done
. Oh my God, have you heard about John and Debbie? No, what on earth’s happened? They are getting a divorce WHAT?!!! But they have been together for ten years. I thought they were really happy together Well seems it is all over Why? He slapped her and split her lip OH EM GEE that’s appalling. Is she okay? Not really. He screamed at her for ages first and
. is that they are their own worst enemies. I have never seen behaviour like I have seen from fans of One Direction fans this week on Twitter. Or actually, any week on Twitter. They are a completely different beast. This week we have heard on the news that Zayn, one of the merry bunch of five lads thrown together by X Factor five years ago, has left the
. Whilst I have been trying to save the world in the past few months Mr B has been holding down a stressful job with a four hour daily commute and, in his words, “keeping the home fires burning” whilst I have been away. No mean feat and so to say thank you I dragged him off to Birmingham last weekend to the Photography Show. Photography is something
. Rather than dashing up to Birmingham and back in a day we decided to make a weekend of the Photography Show and our “Press tickets”. Well as much as you can at the NEC in Birmingham and check into the Premier Inn. As if I haven’t seen enough of Lenny Henry during all our Comic Relief shenanigans we thought we might catch up with him somewhere on the
