August was a month mostly about my holiday to Cyprus, a place I hadn’t visited in seven years. August was therefore bound to be totally consumed by holiday shopping and prep and the bit I hate most, packing. Apart from a visit to Oka in Kingly Street which I absolutely loved this time round, I didn’t really go anywhere else, still that didn’t matter because I was heading to my first beach holiday in three years and I was beyond…
Life lately, it’s been hard to say the least. It’s flown by and I haven’t even been able to find my feet for ages and as usual when this sort of thing happens, I…
Go Go Fruit Basket is an on-line fruit delivery service based in Manchester which was launched in 2000 providing an interesting and wide range of fruit baskets for companies, parties and of course to…
After the crippling snow of March and five days of searing heat, April was true to its proverb because it pretty much rained through the whole of this beautiful spring month, the saying goes…
Comté is a cheese that I love a great deal and having just returned from Paris with mountains of cheese, one of which was a 24-month-old Comté, I was delighted to be invited to…
It really was March madness!! I had a busy month after a relatively quiet January and February. First came the snow which was a bit of shock, I know we’ve had snow before but…
Where did February go? besides the fact that it’s the shortest month of the year, one minute it was here and then it was gone, February is indeed a strange and very boring month.…
Valentine’s Day…. I’m not sure what to think of this day now that I’m older. Romance is so much more than just that “one day”. No longer deluded by the typical cliché - love,…
January!! We all dread the first month of a New Year and I’m no exception. From “new beginnings” “this year will be different” New Year’s Resolutions that always seem to get broken half-way through…
When I first started writing this post, I intended to post it before Christmas, but I came down with a chest infection and flu literally the week before Christmas. I can’t remember being this…