On Monday evening we had a power cut. Everything went off half way through Eastenders (tsk.) Apparently there was an explosion and fire in a nearby substation. Some neighbours heard it, but we didn’t. It happened just before dusk, so one minute we had light streaming in the windows, next it was really dark. We…
Great British Bake Off Week Three – Give us This Day our Daily Bread
Week Three already and it’s time for Bread Week, and as promised Candice wore her red for bread lipstick. Did it bring her luck? Or did she suffer the curse of the Star Baker? The signature challenge was chocolate bread. Andrew did well with his Barmbrack while Selasi cooked his chocolate orange bread a little…
Wet -Word of the Week
This week has been a strange one, we’ve had the return to school which would be my obvious word of the week. Boo and the Little Man went back to primary school on Wednesday and Star started secondary school on Thursday. Such a big step for Star but I will talk about that later. The…
Eight Things I’ve learnt in the Past Eight Months.
I started writing this post last week as I reached my eight month milestone of having Transverse Myelitis. I started out by writing about what I can or cannot do now, but to be honest, it was pretty boring. I’m pretty sure you don’t want to know a monthly update on my condition, even if…
My Sunday Photo 4th September 2016
I know I’m a bit late this year but I’ve been trying to brighten up my garden a little and I bought some plants. I wanted a nice border of flowers but after OH began digging we realised that nothing was going to grow there. Before it was a garden it was a building site,…