Hallelujah it’s finally over and October is upon us once more. The evenings are drawing in, the mornings are darker and the smell of the fallen leaves and the cold air is positively refreshing. Plus, more importantly, Sugar Free September is behind me. And the results are in. Do I weigh any less? Absolutely not. …
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Hiatus from Sugar Free September
I have to confess the cake was divine. There was chocolate everywhere, sweets galore and biscuits aplenty. It was the ultimate in chocolate biscuit cakes made by the fair tender hands of my beautifully talented 17 year old daughter, iced and assembled by my good self and devoured by the whole family. I had been…
Progress on #SugarFreeSeptember
So here we are nearly two weeks into #SugarFree September and I have to report I have been quite well behaved. Despite a leaving party in work where there were sweets on every desk, at every corner and at every opportunity not one little jelly bean passed my lips. I know. I’m rather amazed myself…
Sugar Free September
The kids are back to school. The training sessions have resumed. Life is very quickly getting back to its crazy and frantic normality after a long, hot and lazy summer. So what better time to choose to go cold turkey on my drug of choice, my own personal poison than the start of term? …
Flat Pack Furniture
There are two ways of buying new furniture. There’s the old reliable way of going to the nearest furniture store, consulting with pushy sales assistants and eventually selecting the option most suitable. Or, there’s the other way. The one where you check out catalogues and wander around large international stores armed with a map and…
Spontaneous Beach Fun
We had the tiniest football you’ve ever seen, a long forgotten one discovered in the depths of the car boot. There wasn’t a bucket and spade to be found, not a hint of a surfboard, not a shovel or a kite, not as much as a tube of bubbles. Just four adults and five children,…
Hearsay by Aideen 