Early Mornings

For the last couple of mornings the news has been full of fog – blanketing our cities, disrupting flights but looking oh so pretty. We dragged ourselves out of bed this morning and went hunting for the sun rising though the fog. There are a few more photographs...
Photo A Day July

Photo A Day July

Every couple of months, the Photo A Day challenge from Chantelle at fatmumslim has some real doozies in the list.  And this month does! I am hoping it will get me back on track with uploading each day – instead of leaving all the 365’s to the weekend and...
Nikon V1 Review: First Impressions

Nikon V1 Review: First Impressions

I have been loaned the new Nikon V1 to use – and write about – for a couple of weeks. The Nikon V1 is a mirrorless camera which sits between a standard point and shoot and a digital SLR.  And it has changeable lenses. What I would like to try is the FT1...

Dukan Recipes: Portuguese Chicken

I’ve seen this recipe posted in a few places – there is also one called Paprika Chicken in the Diabetic’s Cookbook that Ken and I have been using on the weekends. I can imagine it would have been even better if I had marinated it overnight like...

Dukan Recipes: Chicken and Prawn Tom Yum

This was the easiest meal to prepare and quite honestly, hands down, the best tasting thing I have eaten in a long time (apart from the Burger King Steakhouse Bacon Burger that I ate on Saturday – sssshhhh!). The recipe makes enough – for me – for...