Happiness Inside And Out

Happiness Inside And Out

I was thinking about songs the other day as you do , I had but for a brief fleeting moment a thought about sunshine . When you actually think there actually a lot of songs about rain , there could be more than there is about sunshine ?!

It's Raining Men > yes please 

Why does it always rain on me ?

Raindrops keep falling on my head 

It's raining its pouring 

April Showers 

I think to much !

I 'm beginning now to think about my outside space for the hot glorious summer we will have , if the days could do these consecutively that would be amazing . Last summer in my garden I placed a ladybird hotel in my garden and a bug hotel , now I haven't seen any ladybirds yet , not like you can knock on their door and ask ! In the bug hotel it looks like we're expecting leaf cutter bees which do exactly as their name suggests. I think these leaf cutter bees will emerge next Spring or so I'm told.

Isn't nature wonderful ! I'm looking forward to finding more discoveries in my garden .

I had no idea there were so many species of bee over 200 in the U.K ! and bees are indeed our friends , don't forget if you see a struggling Bee revive it with some sugar water solution .

Death In The World Of Parent Blogging ( Mummy Blogging )

There is an article floating round the Blogging world which is pretty much death to mummy blogging and how they are ending it all , it is a very well written article, whilst highlighting much with that is trite in the world of blogging . For example having "PR friendly in your bio " this makes me giggle but each to their own personally I would love "I eat PR's for dinner " ( but apparently you can't do that)

No one is reading your blog ?

So what



Never mind you can console yourself with that box of review chocolates  oh no chocolate diet it is then ? NO diets are good, no they aren't ,oh I don't know consoles self with a chocolate covered rice cake & I have nailed it.




Give up Blogging ?

Write an article on how you will give up blogging , then bask in the admiration of the people that love you .....


Keep Blogging as You 've seen the light and you have a super new look to your blog anyway .

Laugh and the world laughs with you or at you ...



Actually I should be pegging out the washing but I am writing this instead , weird how blogging does that do you !


What ever you do there is life in Blogging yet perhaps from a more personal level and who cares if it is read .

Blogging Is Friendship

For a world class introvert and worry boots like myself you'd have thought I would have steered away from doing the digital dance , you'll not find me on snapchat or periscope those aren't mediums that really interest me. You'll find me on my blog( obviously that's where you are reading this ) or Facebook or Twitter , Instagram originally I came late to social media first finding Facebook and the wonderful world of comping . Through comping I made friends many of who are indeed bloggers and these are life long friends I'd go to the ends of the earth for and whom I'm indebted for looking after me when I need it as I do have social anxiety. But pushing me on and nudging me here and there I get through it often distracted by cake which I'm trying very hard to resist .

When in a blogging conference always take notes.

Always take pictures of willing friends 

Always heed advice you find in the loos 

Also when you need the logo and the ladies is closed you use the men's bursting in saying 

" is there a man in here ?"

You realise that you've lost some of you inhibitions all be it for a day or two.

There was no men ....

Friends are like clouds they give you the lift you need .

Blogging no rules , no slave to stats just

Blog and Chill 

Oven Baked Asparagus , Bacon, Hard Boiled Quails Eggs With Smoked Paprika Hollandaise

A starter for two or a main dish for one , all hail the asparagus season which is as fleeting as a butterfly in the Spring breeze.

Ingredients 

Asparagus 

6 Quail Eggs

2 tablespoons of olive oil

Salt to season 

2 tablespoons of hollandaise 

Half a teaspoon of smoked paprika 

Method 

Preheat the oven to 180 c

Place the asparagus in an oven baking tin 

Toss in the love oil

Season with salt ( sea salt would be nice for this )

Place in the oven for around 6 minutes if thin Asparagus or 12 minutes if the Asparagus is really thick

Fry 2 slices of bacon to top the Asparagus

You can be boiling your Quail eggs as the Asparagus bakes in the oven 

They'll only need 2 minutes then will need to cool down , you can pour some cold water on them. They're a little tricky to shell but keep patient.

Take your Asparagus out the oven 

Mix two tablespoons of hollandaise with half a teaspoon of smoked paprika .

Artfully arrange the asparagus on the plate and place the bacon on top , scattering round the Quail eggs which have been cut in two.

Dribble the smoked Paprika hollandaise over the dish.

Oven Baked Asparagus , Bacon, Hard Boiled Quails Eggs With Smoked Paprika Hollandaise


I am sharing this with Simple and in Season at Feeding Boys and a Firefighter.

Review Of Doctor Faustus

We've just got back form London after seeing Doctor Fautus with a chap called Kit Harrington in , I wasn't really ofay with Game of thrones as to me Jon Snow was a newsreader . I had read the reviews before we saw the play where as my husband and son choose not to , I like to be forewarned as they say . Other people don't like to read reviews but I like to have a quick dabble with them , it is really all a matter of principal , after all it has been a long Winter.

I say anything that can draw the young ( millennial folk ) into the theatre all the better and yes the current Fautus has a re write from one perhaps high on Space dust ( that is a sweet that pops in your mouth ) leaving my teen somewhat bemused in the first half but bemusement is also delight.


The theatre really should be an assault upon the senses of the mind and heart and make you feel good to be alive , good that the brilliance of the surreptitiously written word is celebrated over 400 years later. It was a good 26 years since I had seen Doctor Faustus and when I did see it it was perfomed by the pupils of Bedford Modern School.


This was Fautus who took on the persona of David Copperfield meets Darren Brown and within this there's a restful tranquility from the brooding nature of Jon Snow and as mentioned less clothing too !

Debauchery abound , gasps of disgust melting into bravo for a brave take on a classic, taking your Auntie could have consequences especially if they're your prim and proper Auntie but if they're your raving Auntie ( who is prone to nudge nudge wink ) then you're good to go.

All in all a refreshing production for the modern era .