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Next month it is 10 years since I took my final A level exam and left school. This weekend I am marking the occasion with a mini reunion wit...

It's been a while since I made a cake for Free Cakes for Kids , but here is my latest for Angela who will be 9 at the weekend and who re...

As it's not raining for once, it's time for a little garden update. I have to say that the recent weather (torrential rain and high...

So, alarm went off at 8am today and although I could have easily slept for another four hours and probably should have done, I was up and ou...

It’s been a bit of a blogging slump too, and I guess for the same reasons.  Too much openwater swimming and triathlon , too much occupy...

So, less than 24 hours after starting yesterday's Long Swim, I found myself at Blenheim, ready to start my first ever triathlon.  I have...

This time a 3.8k swim at Lechlade, a pretty 3/4 hour drive away (so practically on my doorstep for once).  3.8k is the distance that I have ...

I've mentioned before that bananas can be somewhat a bane of the weekly veg box. Don't get me wrong, I love bananas and would be ...

If I'm honest, I haven't managed to do much to celebrate the Jubilee. Saturday was spent visiting a relative in hospital (the...

What a change in the weather to last week. At the start of the week, having heard that the water was hovering around 12C, I ordered swim soc...