A lifestyle blog
The older I get the more I realise it is the small things that really make me happiest. No longer is it the grand gestures or events that have taken months to organise. Nope. It is the little every day things that make my heart sing. This was really brought home to me this weekend when I bought the little milk bottle above. An insignificant little thing, that cost
I am a huge fan of Micro Scooters and have written about them before, most notably here: Micro Scooters and the humble apology where I had to apologise after I was a tad disparaging. Since then I have come to love everything Micro Scooter do and they have been huge supporters of Team Honk. When they approached me this year and asked if I would like to
Technically I am not allowed to mention Christmas at home until after Ellie’s birthday tomorrow, 16th November. But this post is not being written at home, it is being written at my inlaw’s house so I am not actually mentioning Christmas at home and therefore, well I think I get away with it, don’t you? Do you remember when advent calendars were a single flimsy piece of cardboard and very
That is an awfully big number isn’t it? And if you know anything about what is going on in the world at the moment you will know the significance of it. The number of lives lost in the First World War and therefore the number of poppies planted in the Tower of London Moat. Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red began being planted back in August and continued
This weekend there was a bit of a furore on social media about something that Elle US tweeted, in case you missed it: Plus Size?!!! What? On what planet is Myla Dalbesio a plus size model? You can see her ribs for crying out loud. Planet fashion industry, that’s who, and it drives me mad. But more importantly than that, I think it is dangerous. Myla is,
Did you even know that such a day as National Fountain Pen Day existed? I didn’t until recently. There does seem to be a National Day for everything these days so it is hardly suprising. And if you are as bigger lover as stationery as I am there is even a whole week to celebrate the love. So when I was asked what I wanted to choose to spend my
You can’t beat a great food partnership. Fish and chips. Tuna and sweetcorn. Rice and peas. Spaghetti and Bolognese. To name but four. And Oxo are well aware of that and have now come up with something rather clever to add a little mealtime magic partnership to some old family favourites. A little something to give dinner a magic jooz. how do you
That’s an odd picture for The Gallery theme this week, I grant you. Not particularly spectacular. Though rather lovely, I agree. You will have to forgive me for being a bit self indulgent because it’s been a funny year for me as a blogger, and an odd week. I think this year as I get some time off over Christmas and New Year I will be in quite a reflective
Stuffing your stocking with Sage Appliances Last Saturday I co-hosted an event with Harriet from Sage Appliances in their test kitchen in Chiswick. Mr B, myself and half a dozen other bloggers got to play with all of their fabulous kitchen gadgets whilst preparing a backwards lunch. It wasn’t meant to be backwards but we got a bit excited about the ice cream maker and made Oreo ice
The Barrow family have a lot of love for Wales, and have endless happy memories of the place. So when I decided I wanted to try out a recipe using tea as an ingredient Mr B said “why not make a Bara Brith”. Why not, indeed, especially when I can rename it Barrow Brith. Did you see what I did there? Clever, huh? As I set about making
Thermos #OvernightCoffee challenge Funny how a year ago I wasn’t drinking coffee and now I can’t get enough of the stuff. And from going to the London Coffee Festival solely to meet the guys from Sage Appliances I am now jumping at the opportunity to attend coffee related events the minute they drop into my inbox. Buying coffee beans based on their roasting date and now fluent in flat
I didn’t. But there is no escaping it, Hallowe’en is now big business over here, certainly if this recent article in the Guardian is to be believed: Happy Halloween for retailers It was all a bit too American for me and felt a bit like we were sending our children mixed messages where we tell them not to accept sweets from strangers but then we were accompanying them on
