Category: Fun stuff
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Swimming for Sport Relief
A couple of days after the event I’m still aching yet I’m incredibly proud of swimming 5k for Sport Relief. It was a challenge but it all took place in a friendly atmosphere and was actually a fun swim. All 200 lengths! I wasn’t sure what to expect on Sunday. I’d panicked myself that on…
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My charity swimathon
Well… I’ve decided to try doing something a bit different. One Sunday in March next year I’m going to swim 5k (in one go) for charity. I’ve never been that sporty but since living near Ponds Forge in Sheffield I’ve had less excuses. So about two years ago I started lane swimming, something I hadn’t…
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Photos: Poznan
In May I went to Poland for the first time ever. We travelled to a place called Poznan for a friend’s wedding. I wasn’t sure what to expect from Poland at all but it was very pretty and also thankfully pretty much everyone spoke English. I also haven’t been abroad that much before so was…
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Photos: Sheffield skyline
An afternoon walk is not a usual Easter tradition for me, but this year in between chocolate and a roast we wandered to a new bit of Sheffield for us. I knew the story behind the city’s amphitheatre and the Park Hill flats but I’d never walked up there before. I see them on an…
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Mini creme egg mini cupcakes
It’s that time of year when I start to bake with creme eggs. Over the last couple of years I’ve made cupcakes, brownies and shortbread so I wasn’t too sure what to do this time. I experimented making creme egg doughnuts, using custard and cream to make the white and the yellow of the egg.…
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July Book Club
At the beginning of the month Caitlin Moran released her first novel called How to Build a Girl. I felt a bit strange reading it because even if I wanted to change who I was as a teenager it’s a bit too late now, but there was enough to enjoy regardless. I will also admit…
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Book club: June
June has been an odd month, I’ve started stockpiling books again and I’m not actually reading them. This is not what my year-long book club is about. I realised in January that I was collecting books and not reading them, the downside of owning a Kindle. I just need to remember that as tempting as…