Hello? Is anyone out there? Sorry for the lack of posting, it’s just that, during lockdown, there’s not an awful lot to report. Mr P and I muddling on – we haven’t killed each other yet, which is a good thing, but I think it helps that we have our own pursuits so we’re not […]
Here I am! I recently bought a new laptop after my old one died and subsequently forgot all of my passwords, hence my radio silence, and stumbling across a very old blog I wrote years ago – it was like finding an old diary – kinda cool. How is everyone? I’m working from home as […]
How are we all doing then? Coping with the Coronavirus? Stocked up on pasta and loo roll? I’m finding it all a total drag already and I’m not even self-isolating (yet). My birthday, which seems like ages ago when we could socialise and the pubs were open, was a great one. Having a Monday birthday […]
Just dipping in on a slow work day to have a go at a list I found on the lovely Hazel’s blog. Three things I liked about February 1. Celebrating Mr P’s 41st birthday with a night in a Michelin Star restaurant (Simpson’s in Edgbaston); 2. Our weekend in the Peak District – would love […]
I’d booked a weekend away for Mr P, the whippet and me a month or so before Christmas as one of Mr P’s gifts. Since then, it’s been postponed twice: once because it clashed with a good mate’s 40th birthday party and again because it could have potentially clashed with the F-I-L’s funeral and if […]
We had a great weekend celebrating Mr P’s 41st birthday. On Saturday, I surprised him with an overnight stay at Simpson’s, a Michelin star restaurant with rooms in Edgbaston. I think it must have been an old manor house originally – it’ s gorgeous Georgian building with high ceilings and exquisite cornicing. Our room was […]
My F-I-L’s funeral took place last Monday on a freezing cold but blue-skyed day. After a bracing dog walk in the morning, we all congregated at the family home and went in different cars to the crematorium. The turn-out was impressive, the service itself short but thankfully free of any hymns and religious readings and […]
Is it too late to still be bidding people Happy New Year? I’m going to anyway. Happy New Year. Our Christmas was one of ups and downs. Christmas Day itself was great – we hosted my mum, The Redhead Sister and Teenage D, Mr P made a massive fish pie, we played Pictionary and a […]
It’s been a funny few weeks. Mr P’s not been very well. It could’ve been something much more serious than it is but, thankfully – and I use that term lightly – his symptoms were all down to stress – stress from his recent promotion, his dad’s illness and perhaps not fully grieving for his […]
So, here we are, the next batch of 30 questions courtesy of Hazel and her wonderful blog (hazelsworldofjoy.blogspot.com). 31. What is something you’re tired of? Bloody Brexit. I don’t even care how people voted anymore or how passionately I feel about Remain, if I hear one more conversation about it in a pub or at […]
It’s been a slow month hence the lack of blogging and although I’ve done things, they haven’t been particularly blogworthy or something I really want to talk about. Then, the lovely Hazel (http://hazelsworldofjoy.blogspot.com/) posted this and inspiration struck so thanks for hauling me out of my blogging lull, Hazel! 1. What’s the best thing that […]
I’d been feeling a bit dicky last week, with a throbbing, dull ache in my lower back which I obviously didn’t help by doing a load of burpees on Tuesday evening. By Thursday, I had a cracking headache. I never take medication if I can help it, but it was so severe, it had me […]
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