Mondays are all about finding new ways to pamper... What's pampering? That's looking after Number One, doing something nice for yourself, recharging your batteries 🙂 It's a major part - nay, keystone - of the Flylady programme. If you're nice to yourself, then you're better equipped to look after your home and your family. It's been… Continue reading Pamper Monday – Top Gear
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Pamper Monday – A Musical Interlude
Pamper Monday has come around again. Where does the time go?? I've had a nice winter week's holiday at home with the kids. Took a lot of gentle coaxing to get them out of bed this morning... Back into their ski suits, hats and gloves, out into below freezing temperatures and (yes, more) snow and in to… Continue reading Pamper Monday – A Musical Interlude
Good evening Vienna from Wonderful Copenhagen
I got a tweet this morning from Eddie Izzard. He retweeted this: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=90410227602&ref=ts It's a campaign to get the song "Vienna" by Ultravox to the number one spot in Great Britain. They were cheated at the post in 1981 by that irritating song "Shaddup You Face" by Joe Dolce. (Warning: Don't think about that irritating too… Continue reading Good evening Vienna from Wonderful Copenhagen
Menu planning Thursday – 14 January 2010
Not going to beat around the bush...here it is! 🙂 Thursday We've five extra kids coming for dinner tonight. It's DS10 turn to 'host' the school 'dinner group'. We take four kids (two boys, two girls) from his class home with us and they play together and then eat with us. Their parents turn up around 6.30pm and stay for… Continue reading Menu planning Thursday – 14 January 2010
High Five Meme
My nice (and very blog-savvy) friend Pippa at http://www.amothersramblings.com/ has 'tagged' me with a 'High Five Meme". Thank you, Pippa! 🙂 Pippa's name will be very familiar to regular readers...we were Christmas planning partners-in-crime! Aside being an excellent blogger, she is also a great tweeter. I only surround myself with positive people and she is definitely right-up-there… Continue reading High Five Meme
Jingle all the Way
I wrote in Wednesday's post that I was baking sausage rolls and listening to Christmas music. But I forgot to tell you about my Christmas CD collection! 🙂 If you see me at a party, I'll be the one who has a large handbag - I like to take my own music with me, just in case... I… Continue reading Jingle all the Way
These are a few of my favourite things (Danish bands)
It was "Spil Dansk" (Play Danish) day in Denmark last week. Which meant that the public radio stations played Danish music. All day. Only Danish music. The funny thing is that I didn't even realise that they weren't playing any 'foreign' artists because there's just so much darn good Danish music around! 🙂 So you don't… Continue reading These are a few of my favourite things (Danish bands)
Top 10 Gigs
Still on the music theme and still on list-making - two of my favourite things 🙂 Ten unforgettable concerts. Gosh, where do I start? Have seen more rock concerts than I can shake a really big stick at. Grew up with punk, then new wave, new romantics, ska, etc, etc and these days I'm listening to… Continue reading Top 10 Gigs
Ten songs that’ll get me on the dancefloor
Yes, we're back to wonderful list-making! 🙂 When I'm out on the town and have had a drink (or three), I always have the urge to go dancing. I love rock and electronica but if I'm out for a dance, then it's dance music I want to hear. That's why it's called a 'disco', n'est-ce… Continue reading Ten songs that’ll get me on the dancefloor
Top of the Pops
I think it was @softthistle who recently asked on http://www.twitter.com/ "What gets you out of bed?" Simple answer for me: music. Can get me out of bed, get me cleaning, even got me running (though Jonathan Roche, creator of 'NEWO' http://www.noexcusesworkouts.com/ can take the credit for me putting one foot in front of the other).… Continue reading Top of the Pops
Wonders of technology
When I was at school, I used to write a Fanzine and had it photocopied on the school computer. Not that I sold many copies of it. I used it basically as an excuse to try and meet bands that I liked, under the pretence of being a reporter. Incredibly, it worked a few times.… Continue reading Wonders of technology