We've all done it, sat down with a coffee, maybe exhausted, maybe bored, but for whatever reason we've picked up our phone and started scrolling, or maybe it should be called stalking? Too strong a word? Let's see. It all starts off innocently enough, friends have just come back from some far flung corner of…
Christmas is a time for celebration and tradition. Every family has their own traditions, passed down through the generations. Some of them, like Grandma's carrots, are so intrinsically linked to Christmas dinner it would be unthinkable not to serve them. That is until, someone forgets the recipe! I didn't even know it was a real…
This is not the post I was writing this afternoon. What a day today has been 08/09/2022. The day Queen Elizabeth 2nd died. She was my queen. I was her subject. She optimised what it was to be British. The outpouring of grief for this amazing lady is not surprising. I myself have now been…
I first started looking into making homemade treats for my dog Loki when the vet said he was overweight. The veterinary nurse that was tasked with working out how much food Loki should be fed came up with an amount of dried food larger than Loki was eating at the time. He was adamant that…
There are no prizes for guessing the content of this blog post. The situation that unfurled over last Thursday night, before the first weekend of the summer holidays was horrendous for all concerned. For we, the residents of Folkestone who woke up to roads gridlocked by bemused holiday makers and frustrated lorry drivers it was…
I don't want you to think I had an unhappy , because I didn't. I had the childhood I had, it was all I knew. I know now I had a tough childhood. In secondary school I had very low esteem, but I was independent. I knew how to fend for myself, I was confident…
Being so young I had no idea why I was so afraid of the dark, nor why I hated being in my bedroom quite as much as I did. I didn't question why I felt like this, I just accepted, this was life, I assumed everyone felt the same. It was to be many years…
I can't remember when it first started. I was a child and as such I accepted. I had faith in and believed everything I was told. I have such strong memories of some things, yet others, my first day at school for example, I have no memory of. I have spoken before of my quest…
It's been a long time since I cooked something worthy of shouting about. I'm not a professional cook, I used to make wedding cakes and cater parties, that sort of thing, but at the end of the day I am a forty something housewife trying to make the best of the first class produce grown…
As it was I had plenty of time to ponder on the morning's happenings. I waited in the hospital car park for 6 hours. Not being allowed in with Bree, because of Covid restrictions. I caught up with emails, read all of my Twitter feed, took a picture of the new Nightingale Hub being built,…
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