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    Jun
    18
    2020

    The burning question eating away at us all in these trying times - 'What if we run out of parsley?'. Well fear no more, because I've accidentally grown enough parsley to make garlic bread for the entire United Kingdom (incidentally, can you do anything else with parsley? Please. I have so much parsley.)...


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     18-06-20

     garden, plants, lockdown

    Categories: house, lockdown

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    May
    4
    2020

    My friend Sam told me about Corona Bingo. Fortunately it isn't a neighbourhood window bingo event because I'd definitely feel like I had to participate in that and it would be cold. Corona Bingo is where you tick off all the things you're doing that you thought were unique and creative, but in fact the entire country is baking banana bread and 90 of it is better than yours. ...


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     04-05-20

     house, DIY, baking, culinary

    Categories: Isolation, DIY

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    Apr
    19
    2020

    Flippantly taking our lives in our hands (according to everyone I told I was going to South Africa), we rented a car and drove from Johannesburg airport to Kruger Park. The other drivers were fine, everyone drives on the left (unlike in some countries where side of the driving road seems to be more of a suggestion than a rule), and the roads themselves were grand....


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     19-04-20

     South Africa, Kruger Park

    Categories: Africa, travel

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    Apr
    8
    2020

    The positive of going to Athens early March when Coronavirus was just starting to kick off is there were only four other tourists trying to see the acropolis. Negatives of going to Athens early March when Coronavirus was just...


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     08-04-20

     Greece, travel, Athens

    Categories: Greece, travel, Athens

    Greece, South Africa and Turkey

    There are lots of reasons people go on holiday. Mine is because we found a business class flight to South Africa for cheaper than economy. I've never flown business class, but most airlines...


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     09-03-20

     travel, South Africa, Greece, Turkey

    Categories: Travel, South Africa

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    Nov
    25
    2019

    Most DIY guides you read on the Internet are, rightfully, written by people who know about DIY and are good at it. So I'm here to fill the niche of DIY Guides from Someone with Enthusiasm and the Ability to Watch a YouTube Video....


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     25-11-19

     house, DIY, sanding

    Categories: house, DIY, sanding

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    Aug
    9
    2018

    Port Douglas is about an hour's drive north of Cairns and is supposedly nicer than Cairns. We wouldn't know, as all we saw of Cairns was the airport. The first thing that struck me about this part of Australia was how tropical it was....


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     09-08-18

     Australia, Port Douglas, Great Barrier Reef, Kuranda

    Categories: Australia, Travel

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    Jul
    5
    2018

    When we lived in Australia, we never saw the outback. This was due to a series of circumstances but the dominating factor was that we had a car in Melbourne and didn't want to rent a second one in the Northern Territory....


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     05-07-18

     Australia, Red Centre, Uluru, outback

    Categories: Australia, travel

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    Jun
    10
    2018

    I've been to Adelaide once before. When we lived in Melbourne, Dan and I adopted an Australian attitude to driving and drove 8 hours to visit my cousin Frances and her boyfriend Rob. This time, as we live in Edinburgh, it was easier to fly....


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     10-06-18

     Adelaide, Australia, travel, wedding

    Categories: Australia, travel

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    Jan
    2
    2018

    Since we were only spending 2-3 days in each place, and had planned to visit 7 places over our three-week period, we thought wed end our trip with a nice relaxing beach-front hotel in Drake Bay. Two hours from Manuel Antonio is a town called Sierpe...


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     02-01-18

     Drake Bay, Costa Rica, travel, Central America

    Categories: Central America, Costa Rica, travel

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