My mum always used to say I was a 'faffer ' who liked nothing better than 'faffing around' with skincare and beauty bits . F A F F E R - to spend your time doing a lot of things that are not important instead of the thing you should be doing . i.e "Tracey … Continue reading S T Y L E | faffing around over lockdown …
I adored my Grandad. Today as we celebrate 75 years since VE Day I find my thoughts are drawn back to him. While he was alive he was just ' Grandad Clarke' to my younger brother Mark and I. My Mum's Dad who smoked a pipe , had an annoying budgie that sang. Enjoyed a … Continue reading L I F E | Grandad Clarke’s photographs
Morning Campers how are you all doing today as we enter week 6 of lockdown ?? I think its week 6 anyway - who knows ? [ I've just been advised it's actually week 7! Bloody hell how time flies when you ... don't do much ! ] Is anybody else losing track of the … Continue reading L I F E | lockdown PR
Hey Up Mum ... How is life up there on your cloud? Can you remember Monkey Magic [ how could you forget it was Mark & I favourite programme! ] Well that's how I like to envisage you ... zapping around on your super-powered - all singing -all dancing cloud It’s been a funny old … Continue reading L I F E | happy birthday mum
I was thinking. It happens I've found during lockdown a lot more than usual. Time, too much time at times ... to think, reflect , make lists and plans for when ‘normal’ resumes. That is if and when it ever does? Today I was a little stuck for any words. . Time 1 - Words … Continue reading L O C K D O W N | diaries day 24
Life as we know it has changed. 2020 the year we thought would be A M A Z I N G has turned into somewhat of a giant turnip! Call it what you want ... but Covid19 is not going anywhere fast. Curse it for ruining your plans. I did yesterday . I know it’s … Continue reading L O C K D O W N | diaries day 15
It’s a strange place to be . March 2020 . We know it’s out there Covid 19 - a silent , invisible and deadly threat yet until it effects us directly it’s almost as it if doesn’t exist. A case of “It happens to other people ... not us ?” We wash our hands rigorously … Continue reading L I F E | march 2020
I was contemplating last night. Not that much will be changing around ours during the lock down period. I don't have kids so there is no home schooling or need to entertain [ accept myself] . I’ll not be going to my part time job and I will miss that routine. It will just be … Continue reading L I F E | lockdown
the naughty forty diaries 