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Fa la laaaaa!
I fancy starting a blog. I won't be poncy and pretend it's anything amazing. It'll just be my ramblings about my uber-exciting (well, sometimes...) life and things that interest me and make me happy....
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Car boot sale bargains
Aaah Sunday mornings. Nothing better than a lie-in, followed by a leisurely and drawn-out breakfast, reading the papers. Nooooo, not me. I often choose to spring out of bed at 7.30 and jump in the car...
View ArticleMy failure on the Dukan Diet
10 days til holiday. PANIC! I want to lose weight quickly (I’m about a stone heavier than I’d be in my ideal world), and not look too blobby in a bikini. As anyone who knows me, or follows my incessant...
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Gel nail polish - the future....!
It's official, I'm addicted. I've had gel nail polish done 3 times now since early July, and I honestly can't see myself using 'normal' nail varnish any more. Firstly it's a bore to put on and I ALWAYS...
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From Dukan diet to Slimming World
So, I failed at Dukan. It was just horrible eating so much meat, and so much processed stuff such as fizzy drinks and sugar-free yogurts in some desperate attempt to satiate my sweet tooth. At the end...
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Photo-a-day-ing again?
I first did a Photo a Day project in 2007 on Flickr, and I'm pretty sure I made the full year. At the start I knew absolutely nothing about photography and doing the project gave me a fantastic...
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Day 1/366 - One of my favourite things
No, not alcohol. This gorgeous little glass with star shapes cut into it. I found it in an antiques shop in Wimbledon Village years ago, when I still lived and worked in London. I think it was a fiver....
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Eye make-up my way...
I don't profess to be an expert in eye make-up application at ALL, but as I've been doing it the same for over 10 years and I've had a fair handful of kind compliments from Flickrerers on my eye photos...
View ArticleAn evening with Danny & Ben from Thunder
Having been a fan of the band Thunder for more years than I care to admit to, I decided to get tickets for 'An Evening with Danny & Ben' (Danny Bowes being Thunder's singer, and Ben Matthews, their...
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My January Glossybox is here!
So after finally giving in last month and subscribing to the monthly Glossybox (www.glossybox.co.uk) and being very pleased with its contents, my second box has just arrived.As Mr G is such a prolific...
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Pilchard Curry recipe - try it, you might like it!
A girl at work is an absolute superstar at making curries. She gave me a recipe for Malaysian pilchard curry, after I revealed Mr G's tendency for hoarding things, including tins of pilchards (he had...
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Slimming World sweet chilli pork burgers & Thai cucumber salad
I've reached my target weight now, but making an effort not to put it all back on again, so am sticking to Slimming World-friendly recipes most days of the week (weekends are a different story,...
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I developed an old film...
Poking through a box of old things, I found a 35mm film that I never developed. The excitement! What tales from the past did it hold? Would they still be on there after what must be at least 10 years,...
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New flavour Pimm's - blackberry & elderflower
Went to the Swan pub in Pangbourne last night to have a glass of wine by the river. Just too late to change my order, I spotted a bottle of Pimm's behind the bar in packaging I didn't recognise. Asked...
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Taste Test: Lotus caramelised biscuit spread
A long-time fan of those little individually-wrapped Lotus biscuits you get in meetings or hotels, when I found out last year they also made a Lotus biscuit-flavoured SPREAD, I was very keen to try...
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Best hand cream in the world EVER (IMHO)
I keep meaning to tell you all - and I DO tell people on a regular basis - that this is the BEST hand cream EVER: It's Balance Me super moisturising hand cream. Believe me, I've tried all the fancy and...
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A visit to the Mulberry Factory Shop at Shepton Mallet
Yesterday, I happened to be cruising the country lanes of Dorset and Somerset, when I remembered there was a much fabled Mulberry Factory Shop in not-too-far-away Shepton Mallet, full of discounted and...
View ArticleA tale of forgotten poems
I've started a new blog - Poems from Mr Nash. It will be documenting a collection of nearly 100 poems my sister and I found inside books bought by our mother in the late 1950s/early 1960s, all written...
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A final visit to Jackson's department store, Reading
Jackson's department store in Reading closed down on 24 December 2013, after 138 years of trading. It was THE place to get your school uniform, balls of wool, and sensible underwear, among many other...
View ArticleToday's rant - domestic violence and gold-diggers
I was just going to tweet about this, but I can't get my thoughts across properly in 140 characters. So I thought I'd rant on my very dusty blog...This Johnny Depp / Amber Heard story is giving me the...
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