A few weeks into the summer holidays and I wonder how Horseshoe Bay is faring? I say that because there’s approximately two tonnes of sand in my car. If everyone else is the same, is there any sand le...
Nothing says summer like warm sunny days and, oh wait, a lot of tank rain! The kids are finally off their laptops but Mother Nature is not co-operating with all the plans I had for outdoor summer days...
School’s out and the kids are delighted! I did point out that school has basically been out since March, but apparently there have been way too many online tasks and Skype calls for it to classify as ...
This is the year we said goodbye to bananas and hello to a pandemic, when we opened our eyes wide to racial prejudice and stood up for Black Lives Matter, when our National Heroes Weekend descended in...
Somewhere during the middle of shelter-in-place, probably around “friwednesday, the ninetwelfth of Maybruary”, I lost my exercise mojo.
I never really knew what day it was and was so caught up in the...
Following a recipe in Bermuda used to look like this:
1, Pick a recipe
2, Drive round multiple stores collecting ingredients for said recipe
3, Get home and start making recipe but realise you forg...
My granny turned 98 this week and we sang Happy Birthday over Zoom and watched her blow out candles.
Not 98 of them, thank goodness; my aunt had the forethought to just use two … two years to 100!
I ...
Well here comes May, and with it the beginning of the most unusual summer we’ve ever known.
I’m a sucker for real-life video interviews of nursing staff around the world and I just can’t wrap my head...
Life in the trenches of homeschool and work is somewhat crazy but, in between episodes of wanting to throw the laptop at the wall, we are surviving.
Fortunately, school seems to be done by early afte...
Remember when we just used to worry about the banana shortage? There’s nothing like a new virus going on an unauthorised rampage around the globe to shake things up a little.
Whether you’re nervous a...
