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Review: Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
I had extremely high hopes for this book after having loved the first two Bridget Jones books, but I’ve left this book with a bad taste in my mouth, a taste of disappointment and things not quite going my way. I think part of it was probably that in the first two books, Bridget is
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Rodley to Apperley Bridge on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal
It rained massively yesterday (as you can probably see from my pictures), but when I woke up this morning I could see glorious blue sky out of my window (I really need to hang my blinds back up again!). I decided that I couldn’t really waste such beautiful weather, so I went for a walk
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Recipe: Fisherman’s Pie with Leeky Mash
(A Hairy Bikers Recipe). Serves 4. Ingredients For the filling 1 medium head of broccoli, cut into small florets 350g thick white fish fillets (I used Basa fillets) 150g smoked fish fillets (I used smoked Basa fillets) 400ml semi-skimmed milk 4 tbsp cornflour 4 tbsp cold water 150g cooked, peeled prawns salt and pepper to
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Review: Malala Yousafzai (with Christina Lamb) – I Am Malala
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably heard about Malala last year. She was shot in the head by the Taliban on the way home from school, and was flown to the UK to be treated in Birmingham. But until I read this book, I didn’t really know the details of what had
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Recipe: Chicken and Rice Bake
Ingredients (for two) 4 chicken thighs or 2 chicken breasts 4 rashers of bacon 125g rice 1 onion 1 tbsp olive oil 1 garlic clove 1/2 tsp turmeric 250ml chicken stock (I use one knorr stock pot in 250ml water) Salt and pepper to taste Method Wrap the chicken in bacon and secure with a
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Review: J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
I’ve been meaning to read this book for a long time, but when it came to it last year I decided that with my challenge to read 100 books in a year, something as long as this wouldn’t be wise. Although to be honest, if family problems hadn’t stopped me from reading, I would have
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Review: Beth Labonte – What Stays in Vegas
I seem to be getting through Kindle books faster than regular books recently, mostly because I can read them on my lunch break at work without getting a million questions about what I’m reading and suggestions for what I should read next. Don’t get me wrong, I love finding new books, but my ‘to-read’ list
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Review: Susan Willis – The Bake Off
This book was a hastily downloaded free kindle book to fill up an empty lunch break, although I didn’t quite expect it to be short enough to read entirely in an hour! I was most disappointed that the last 25% of the book was actually a teaser for another one of the author’s books, I
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Review: F. R. Tallis – The Sleep Room
Wow! This book was so far out of my comfort zone, I was in two minds whether to buy it. But I thoroughly enjoyed the story, the suspense and the characters. One thing that did disappoint me slightly was that I didn’t find it quite as thrilling as I could tell I was supposed to,
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Review: Milly Johnson – It’s Raining Men
It’s been some time since I last read a Milly Johnson book, but I recently started following her on Twitter and I found out that her latest book came out on the 1st August (with a launch at Meadowhall which I really wish I could have gone to). I’d usually wait and go out to
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A-Rod or A-Roid?
Well I know that there are going to be a lot of posts about this over the next few days (and I have already read a fair few myself), but it’s been a while since I last wrote a baseball post and I can’t stop thinking about this one. Last night, the long investigation was finally
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Recipe: Sticky Five Spice Gammon
It’s been a long time since I did any cooking, but since I finished work an hour early on Friday, I thought I might as well try out one of my food pins from Pinterest. The original recipe that I found on Pinterest had egg noodles, but we had none in the house so I
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Waddington Airshow 2013
It’s taken a while for me to get these pictures processed and uploaded, but I’m finally done! I love going to Waddington and this year was Cameron’s first proper air show, after we introduced him to Sunderland last year. It was so much fun, although very warm! That was good though, because the sky was
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Review: Miranda Hart – Is It Just Me?
Anyone who knows me will know that Miranda is my favourite comedian. I can’t watch her show without laughing hysterically, and it doesn’t matter how many times I’ve seen it, it’s still the same. So it was kind of surprising that I waited so long after this book came out to actually read it. I
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