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...Blogging Every Day in May - Day 3
Today's #BEDM topic is 'your weekend morning routine'. This has always varied for me, as I've always worked weekends. On a working day, I wake up at 7.30, try to do all the stuff I need to do in 40...
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So, today's prompt in #BEDM is 'May the 4th be With You', which of course refers to Star Wars Day. While I could talk about Star Wars and how much I love all the films (yup, even the new ones. Film...
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...Blogging Every Day in May - Day 5
Today's #BEDM prompt is 'Cinqo de Mayo - Let's be Mexican'. Now I'll be honest here, I had planned to share a recipe (for three bean and chorizo chilli, which is first had in nachos and the leftovers...
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...Blogging Ever Day in May - Day 6
Today's prompt really stumped me. Passion Project - something I love doing that I'd like to make money from. The truth is, I like doing lots of things, but most of them I do to a basic standard. I...
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...Blogging Every Day in May - Day 7.
Today's prompt is gadgets. I am not really one for kitchen gadgets etc - we have a stove top kettle and only just got a toaster after two years without one. What I do like are media gadgets. My phone -...
View Article...Blogging Every Day in May -Day 9
Can we just ignore my lack of day 8 post? If I'm going to write about local history, I'd like to do it properly, so I'll do a belated day 8.So, to today's subject - Motivation.I had to think a lot...
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Blogging Every Day in May - Day 10
Today is World Fair Trade Day. For the last 10 years or so, I've been buying fair trade products where possible. As we live in a large town, one that is also a Fair Trade Town, It's getting easier and...
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...a fan of a spice marinade and BBQ weather!
On Tuedsay, some post arrived for me from Sainbury's*. The post was swiftly snaffled by Oscar, who likes nothing more than tearing a letter apart. I'm really glad that the actual contents were intact,...
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The Mum Files, pt 1
Quite a while ago, I talked about writing about my mum here, as a way to remember her. I find I forget little things as the years go on. I've just had one of those long, tangenty thinks with lots...
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...Summering (July 2014)
I remember, in May, saying I was going to be better at blogging. For some reason, despite college being finished, life feels jam packed and that idea went out the window. So, a catch up. July has held...
View Article... A political animal
I am really struggling to get back to blogging. I've missed August, full of weddings and anniversaries and birthdays. And until today I couldn't begin to write about the referendum, campaigning, the...
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...catching up - September.
...and suddenly Autumn is in full swing. The end of September has been filled with work, college, a wee bit of crafting, loads of reading, soup and stew, and dog walks where I indulge my inner five...
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...catching up - August.
August is my favourite non-Autumn/Winter month. August has our wedding anniversary AND my birthday in it. And this August also included theatre trips and nights out the wedding of our friends Gareth...
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...remembers
My mum died 11 years ago today, on her second favourite day of the year.This morning, my aunt Ina wrote about her relationship with my mum - as a sister and as her best friend. And it made me think...
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...wintering (November)
November has passed in a blur of work, college assignments,dog walks, and the odd gig or job interview (unfortunately unsuccessful, but there you go). I can almost see the finish line with regards to...
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... feeling festive - Christmas Trees and Afternoon Tea.
Sideboard - The Christmas Edition.As of last year, with the sad collapse of our trusty John Lewis Christmas tree , Dave and I have started getting a small, potted tree. My mum's tradition, which I've...
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...a Secret Santa again (Recipe post - Mince Pie Tiffin)
As I mentioned in my last post, part of Blogging Six Christmas (yup, that's what we call it!) is a Secret Santa swap. Each person buys a gift and also makes something. When it comes to making presents...
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...ready for a New Year (a festive catch-up)
Today is the last day of nine days off for me. I haven't has a long run of days off since June, and they were needed.I worked Christmas Day and Boxing Day this year, for the first time in 8 years....
View Article...making the best of the bleak mid-winter
So, after a 2014 filled with glorious summer and autumn and a mild start to winter, the second week in 2015 has brought full pelt storms - rain, sleet, snow, and brutal, Gale force winds. This week, I...
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...walking in the snow
This morning was the first time we've had proper snow since Oscar came to live with us, and since I'm on back shift today, I got to take him out in actual daylight. It snowed quite heavily, and...
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...all change.
So, in January, as ever, I was all 'I'm going to blog every week this year' and as is evident, that went out the window.The last two months have been very busy. I interviewed for, and got a management...
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...on the campaign trail.
For the next month, the blog Will be quiet. With less than four weeks to go and polls predicting every eventuality under the sun, and no votes cast, there's work to be done.Oh, but. Yesterday I met...
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...an activist (campaign experiences and the SNP landslide)
I mentioned in my last post that I'd been campaigning. If you told me then that I'd be sitting here having witnessed our candidate Gavin Newlands win by 9000 votes, I'd have laughed. Of course we were...
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...lately.
Recent happenings...I attended a conference on Supporting Older People with Learning Disabilities for work, as part of Learning Disability Awareness Week.I took part in the Anti-Austerity Rally in...
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...counting down summer (my summer in numbers)
Oh look. Yet again I've not blogged for two months. So, here's a picture by numbers run down of summer in Hughesville.7 - years of marriage to this guy 6 - books finished - here's three of them...5 -...
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