Diwali (Dīvali, Dīpāwali, or Deepavali) is a festival of lights observed on the 15th day of the month of Kartika in the Hindu calendar. For the second year, we’ve celebrated Diwali at…
The title of this blog, The Warmest Room, comes from the name of a Billy Bragg song. Which isn’t particularly great for getting it up the listings on Google, but it was…
It was all about the GOAT. In so many ways. Save…
Now that my Nan is in residential care, we had to begin clearing out our home in order to return it the the council. It’s odd to think that I will probably…
It’s rained all day, so as there didn’t really seem any reason to go out, we’ve holed up and had a mini-Sunday. I put the fairy lights on as it got dark…
I’ve been lucky to go out for lunch in Brighton twice this week, and to two of my favourite restaurants. Lots of new restaurants and eateries are opening up in Brighton, with…
Bonfire night. And my first weekday off from work in a while. We went into Brighton and had a cocktail at Bohemia and lunch at English’s. Then we came home and watched…
My last day at work for this week – not sure I’ve ever been so excited to have 2 days off. Not because I have anything planned, but because I could do…
Today I attended a Barnardo’s conference at the Royal College of Nursing in London. It was interesting, and nice to be going into the west end, rather than EC1 in the morning…