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Lockdown Diaries | Home Haircut
So I did it. I gave myself a full haircut, at home, while on lockdown. And even worse, without any clever DIY You Tube video How-To to guide me. It started off with a trim…
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Lockdown Diaries: Knitting To De-Stress An Anxious Mind
I’m not the greatest knitter. I can knit a basic scarf. But I can knit socks – it involves double needles, slip slip knitting, turning the heel and tricks that will navigate you way to a small woollen item…
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Lockdown Diaries: Cheating At Sourdough
You think you’re being highly original, then turns out you are not the only one, quelle horreur! To the extent that what you are doing has become highly mocked in some circles…
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Lockdown Diaries | Covid News Junkie Trying to Read
This weekend I picked up a book for the first time since lockdown begun. I have been dipping into my current Kindle selections, but with little of the usual gusto I approach fiction – in the pre-Covid days, reading late into the night, regretting it the next, then doing just the same the next day…
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Overnighting At Brownber Hall & Middleton Lodge
For February half-term this year, we hit the road northwards, destination Skye. A driving trip that packs in the hours, we made sure to overnight each way and the lovely Brownber Hall and Middleton Lodge were on the itinerary…