2023-09-25 15:01
So, though I no longer have to be in Cambridge, we still have a house up there. I think its a truth of life that you generally don’t investigate or act much as a tourist in places you… Read More
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2023-09-15 09:09
I have come to the conclusion that I don’t like not working. I went out with a mate last night and we had a long talk about the (generally male) addiction to work. Which doesn’… Read More
2023-08-30 08:47
An old friend refound, Z, was recently posting about her own losses and carrying on. Perhaps not funny at all how that set me thinking about my own. I lost a partner over thirty years ago… Read More
2023-08-29 12:47
Its funny, when I came back to this blog and have read my old post, I think the most common phrase I used was “It was a lovely weekend”. Well, it was a lovely weekend. Saturday… Read More
2023-08-21 13:39
Never, ever build something with a flat roof. Never.
We did. As I took my very long break from blogging, one of the reasons was we were building an extension to the house. For various… Read More
2023-08-16 08:31
You know the phrase, someone walks with a sway, style and grace and inevitably the words “Oh, they walk like a dancer” come out. Inevitably they have done there 10,000 hours of… Read More
2023-08-15 12:40
Can a necessity be a luxury, or do we just become so used to little luxuries they feel necessary?
I know I have various privileges. That’s a discussion for another day. However, o… Read More
2023-08-08 08:02
So Sunday was LL’s birthday. Given her druthers, she’d let birthdays slide by quietly and ignored. I like a bit of fuss, just a bit. Given it had been a hard few days before… Read More
2023-08-05 10:03
It was a sad day yesterday. Recently our first nanny, who we have stayed close to over the years, passed away. It was her funeral yesterday. Melanoma which over a number of years progress… Read More
2023-08-01 10:12
I am currently amongst the great and good of the unemployed. Long story, for another day. I have what is known colloquially as an executive coach. We are working through what I might want… Read More
2023-07-28 08:00
For my sins I am a trustee for an old and established charity. It is one I was involved with many decades ago, and I was very pleased to be able to come back and join the trustee board. Li… Read More
2023-07-21 08:02
On coming back to blogging, one thing I’ve done is go back and read my old posts. Fascinating, and sometimes a little dull. I had a lot of really nice weekends. The kids were also v… Read More
2023-07-18 08:33
Which is an understatement. Its been a whole decade since I last seriously blogged. I find myself at a change in life, and am going to try again. So much in my head that I want to get out… Read More
2023-07-13 15:22
Though I suspect I should say “I’m Back!”. I dallied with a blog back in the noughties, then life overtook me and I stopped. I would guess no one I interacted with back t… Read More
2012-07-14 16:46
So, in an attempt to avoid lying, I’m going to try to describe the process. For the sake of the scientific I’ve started with a list of ingredients, but need to put in fair warnin… Read More
2012-07-14 16:43
It is that time of year, and at the weekend I made the first batch. This is, quite possibly, my favourite pudding. Especially if served with a really good vanilla ice cream (I do make a rath… Read More
2012-07-14 16:42
This is based on a recipe from St John’s college Cambridge. The chef, Bill Brogan, delights in finding unusual and old recipies. I took his origional and modified it to work with one o… Read More
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