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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Small Independents To Shop From During Covid-19
The news cycle has been moving so fast these past few weeks and in the last couple it’s become clear that 1) many retail businesses are closing down altogether 2) many large retailers dependant on large warehouses are not adequately providing or are able to provide safe working conditions for their staff and so should […]
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