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Rubber Chicken – Soup Day
As promised a few days ago , here’s how I make my chicken soup. You should know by now that I’m evangelical about Rubber Chicken , so-called because you stretch the chicken as far as it’ll go. I get 7 meals (4 main meals, 3 lunches) out of…
Are You Set in your Ways?
This was originally posted to my column on the Sixty & Me website a couple of weeks ago – and now you can read it here too!! It’s not just our joints that we need to keep flexible as we get older. The trouble is we find a way of doing…
A Civilised Human Being
I’ve been looking for a lodger since November . No lodger has been forthcoming until now. But now, like number 9 buses, three come along at once. When I first decided to look for a lodger, my initial plan was to only have women to stay…
Nerd Alert!!
I’ve been husbanding my resources for exactly a year now. I’ve kept a log of what I’ve been spending on food. Every. Single. Penny. There’s a spreadsheet. There’s a graph. I know how much I’ve spent each week. I know how much I’ve spent…
One Year On, Six Months On
One year ago today, my husband left me. He’d told me he was leaving back on the 8th of January, and since then we’d been living a strange sort of life where we were still under one roof but not living together. That part is a bit vague…
It’s Nice to be Nice
But not to other people – we all know we should do that. This is about being nice to ourselves. I think that’s harder. In Why Should You Care I wrote about filling the kettle and putting a teabag in a mug so that when I get up in the…
See Naples and…
In my new job, we have to book time off. Not so unusual – but it wasn’t like that in my two previous careers. In teaching you just get the school holidays, no option. And when you work for yourself you can (theoretically) take time off…
It’s Valentine’s Day
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The Price of Fish
120 years ago today my Great Grandfather, Alexander Murray, left the fishing port of Anstruther in Scotland on board the ‘ Bernicia ’, heading out into the North Sea. The boat, and her crew, never returned. This was written by another…
8 Advantages of Working from Home – and 8 Disadvantages
Storm Ciara is beating itself against my windows, and I’m due to leave for work in a couple of hours. I was (still am) running a limited company with my husband (the one who left nearly a year ago). For me that meant working from home. I…
The Nights are Getting Lighter
I made breakfast in daylight for the first time in ages the other day. And yesterday I started work at 7am – which still involved driving there in the dark, but not for much longer! There are flowers on the clematis – spring is springing.…
What Colour Do You Feel Today?
How do you feel? I mean, how do you really feel? Happy? Or depressed? Or?? It seems to me that we’ve started to think that if we’re not feeling happy then we must be feeling sad. And if we’re feeling sad we must be suffering from…
