Has it really been a year?! Well, fancy that, a year’s worth of shambolic ramblings from a Yorkshire Lass Down Under, you’re welcome world!! I often read posts that claim not to be fixated with the stats side of this blogging gig, but I find that like money, the people who have a lot of […]
The first place I usually look to when I want to escape is up: (But sometimes I find I’ve been beaten to it) Crowds are usually what I most want to escape from, so a long and almost empty pier can be very inviting: (And I haven’t felt the need to jump off the end yet) If all […]
So, after swanning around Magnetic Island on the Providence, and staring out at a marina full of lovely boats for six days from our apartment, we’ve come back home to our view of the Bay with a hankering for a boat again. There is a massive expanse of coastal waterways to explore on our doorstep, […]
Fifteen months ago I stopped eating animal and poultry meat. So far, so good. I’ve had a few teeny tiny bits of bacon in a quiche, an accidental consumption of some chicken in what I thought was a vegetarian rice roll, and two, crust-less and dolls-house-sized, ham sandwiches at High Tea……even I can’t survive on cake […]
I have the best of both worlds; the world of intellectual stimulation at Uni, and quite often (yes really) on WordPress, and the silly fun stuff I chitty chat about at home, and when I’m out and about with friends and family. Me and my children share a particular brand of silly and innateness that leaves us for […]
I present to you one beautiful bride, and declare my bias straight away because she is my daughter. After all the planning, the logistics of getting a wedding party, dresses, table decs, luggage, travel cot and pram, boxes of cakes, those bloody DIY lollipop bouquets, and the geriatric rellies, from BrisVegas to Townsville, and then […]
Where’s tha been lass? Well I have not been on Ilkley Moor Baht’at you’ll be glad to know. Confused? Well, you should be, welcome to my world, it’s currently made of lollipops. My wonderful daughter decided she would like a lollipop bouquet for her wedding instead of flowers. I searched high and low on the […]
Yes I know that’s not a proper word, what are you? the grammar police??! Life is absolutely redonkulously busy right now, and there is really no other way to describe it. I’m currently spending the Easter break baking a huge multi-coloured train cake for my Grandson’s first birthday party; testing nail polish swatches for a […]
Now what do we make of this? My new Italian cooker arrived this week and there is a pouting Italian man on the front cover of the operating manual. It’s a look I’ve seen before from the Playboy era, but they had fluffy pom pom tails and rabbit ears to go with it……and were (we have […]
A word used in a contemporary and bewildering context: I’m beyond talking about this, I’m beyond tired, This is beyond cool, It’s beyond rad, He’s beyond stupid, They are beyond busy, She’s beyond fit, I’m beyond over it, It’s beyond, beyond. So where exactly is this beyond, and how do we go any further? It makes a […]
