Soup Week

  After last weekend of the disastrous eating, lovely as there were celebrations.  It was just the wrong foods eaten which started Friday evening and went on until Sunday evening!!!, oh dear. So, all last week for my lunches I made a squash soup, the recipe is for a spicy one but as I can't …

It’s National Chocolate Week

hi everyone Found out this afternoon that it's national chocolate week, how good is that.  So does that mean you can eat as much chocolate as you like and tell people 'Well it's national chocolate week so I am supporting this fabulous week'. That's my excuse I would use anyway, although I actually don't need …

Delicious recipes

hi everyone I can't believe it is the end of the weekend yet again!!!!, where has it gone just flown by and so has this week. Spoke to my daughter Friday evening and she has no voice so had to cut that short, she decided to go to the out of hours doctors yesterday and …

Just the two of us

Hi everyone It's just been the two of us since Thursday and until Monday night, yay. Daughter enjoying all her outings, paint and foam parties.  Basically enjoying herself with all her friends and boyfriend until they start their studies next week and getting in the wee small hours. Our son is in Norway enjoying the …

All back to Uni

hi everyone Well, my daughter has now returned to University on Sunday, yay, I can now get her room spring cleaned. Actually my son and husband could not wait any more for me to tackle it so they both went in and hoovered and dusted and cleaned the surfaces, then they dumped everything on the …

My daughter has returned already!!!

  Hope you have all had a good week, it has just whizzed by. Well as you can guess from the title my daughter decided the other day that she was bored stiff and decided to grace us with her presence for a couple of days.  We did say about going up later but no …

Celebration No. 3

hi everyone Just a few days late, as usual can't get myself into gear and forget to post!!!! Well we had our 3rd celebration last week, my daughter's birthday she is now 22 (yikes), she wanted to go away for her birthday, again (last year she went to Marbella for her 21st) so this year …

Just one slice please

hi everyone Happy Bank Holiday Monday of what is left of it. This week my husband and myself are at home with my daughter and my son who has taken this week off as his birthday is coming up this week, cannot believe he is going to be 25 yikes, I feel old.  Next week …

Keeping healthy and fit

hi everyone Well it's the end of the week yet again, and my husband and I have done a whole week of this new eating regime, well he is doing it more than me as I am at Weightwatchers but it keeps me on the straight and narrow a bit more than I usually am, …

Lovely day today

hi everyone Today we were privileged to be taken round where my son works, at McLaren head office. It was lovely to see where he works and see lots of different racing cars etc.  Here is just a couple of pictures which we were allowed to take, unfortunately can't say too much about what they …