Silent Sunday…

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Over the past few months I’ve been having quite a bit of fun playing with new technology. As Gav has been an IBMer for around two decades now, it’s usually him who plays around with technology but this time it’s been what I’ve termed “blogger” technology – and although I’m never that clever in figuring…
This whole week has been a bit of a downer – and we’re only a few days into it. I wasn’t in the best of moods last week and then what feels like since the dawn of Sunday, one thing after another seemed to go wrong, or feel unjust, and on top of my general…
Just like Handy Manny, we celebrated Cinco de Mayo in style this year. Thankfully Mr. Lopart and his sabotaging furball Fluffy were nowhere to be found, but thanks to Discovery Foods (and the hard work of my husband at 11 p.m) we enjoyed our own mini Mexican fiesta! Since I can’t cook take any credit…
My love affair with Gin is nearly as long as my love affair with my husband, and began (and nearly ended) at my 18th birthday party in March 1994. Raised in the Midlands on a weekend TV cocktail of James Bond movies (Saturday nights) and Formula One racing (Sunday afternoons), when I reached the grand old age…
Would you drive, with rough directions scribbled on a piece of A4 without a mobile phone or sat nav, into the crazy urban jungle of London with two small children? Me either. But I did. I even managed to reach my destination fifteen minutes early (I allowed for thirty) and only had to pull in…