A lifestyle blog
Seems very appropriate that the theme today is “Family” as we have just spent a long over due weekend just hanging out at home with my parents. And also because it is five years ago today that we lost a member of our family. Rog, Mr B’s elder brother took his own life in the early hours of the morning and the Barrow family was never quite the
How Boden got me out of my comfort zone Black. Black is my comfort zone. I like black. I wear it alot. Am comfortable in it. And don’t have to worry about it. I can blend in to the background and not really stand out in a crowd at the bar. Not only is it pretty forgiving, you don’t need to have to worry too much about what
It’s been a funny ole week. As well as the usual working / home life balance there have been two trips to London. One to visit Comic Relief HQ and one today for the MAD blog awards. One trip to London in a week takes it out of me as the logistics around it are quite manic, to do it twice is… well, unheard of now. My
because blueberry muffins are SO last year. And because waffles just taste so much better when you have made themselves (and have the Sage waffle maker that we have you want to make waffles all day every day). The knock on effect of this is that we are getting through more eggs and milk than ever before. And becoming much more aware of the eggs we buy. I
I have had a hell of a week. As I type this madly on Wednesday morning I have barely stopped for the past 48 hours and am currently sitting in a hotel lobby ahead of more all day meetings. Yesterday I was out of the house for 12 hours, and its a bit of a blur. So I took this on Monday morning having seen the theme
I think we all know that to be the case, don’t we. But this time last week that was really brought home to me. I was asked if I would like to be interviewed to “create content” for the Toyota blog following our loan of the Prius Plug-in. I jumped at the chance, you know me, I love to talk. Especially when it is about something
The Booker Prize is as old as me, having been founded in 1969. It was formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction, and then the Man Booker Prize and is the leading literary award . It recognises the best book written in English and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year and whittles down a longlist of around a dozen books to a shortlist of six. It’s
God knows I love a good rant. Hell, I even used to have a weekly Ranty Friday on this very blog that was widely received, joined in with and looked forward to by many. Alot of people thought it was because I had to get something off my chest once a week when it actual fact it was so I could limit my ranting to just once a
I love a big sky. It is one of the first things I mentioned when we were in Cornwall at Christmas and as we headed down to Land’s End. Just the sheer amount of sky you could see. On a daily basis it is easy to forget jus how little of the sky I can see and just how much I love a huge sweeping expanse of sky. I took hundreds
I love fireworks. I mean properly love them. We had fireworks set to music at our wedding (Hard-Fi’s “Something for the Weekend” since you asked) and the budget for it was three times my dress budget. THAT is how much we love fireworks. Our summer holiday to France this year was timed to ensure we would be there for Bastille Day because every town has a
We have two apple trees in our garden, alongside a pear tree. All there when we moved in. I mostly ignore them to be honest. Well I don’t ignore them, I just sort of forget about them until I wonder why there are so many wasps when we cut the grass and have to step over all the windfalls. One of the great things about being part of
I have never been a great cook. I think everybody knows that. Least of all my long suffering family. But I do try. And recently I have been trying even harder to do things differently. Rather than the five things I can cook relatively disaster free, I have tried adding to that repertoire and branching out a bit. Listen I will never be Nigella or Delia Smith but I would
