The Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) award is a youth programme that was set up by Prince Philip, back in 1956. There are three levels of award, of which Gold is the highest. For a long time there has been the sense that the DofE Gold award is like a golden ticket into
We’re in the process of moving house. I won’t go into all the rigmarole involved in the actual move, in this post, I’ll do that later. What I want to talk about here is the major thing that’s keeping me awake at nights, and that’s how we’re going to preserve the food
As I explained in the July post, to achieve my weight loss success for August, I wanted to weigh no more than 14 stone 10 pounds (206lb/93kg) by the end of the month. Well, it wasn’t easy, but I hit my target: I ended July at a weight of 213lb (15st 3lb/97kg).
So far, our Baltic cruise had followed the pattern of one day at port, followed by one day at sea, and repeat. In this way, we’d visited Bruges and Copenhagen and now we would cruise into Stockholm. But, here, the pattern changed, Stockholm marked the first of five successive port days. Following
After Emma finished her GCSEs, last year, she decided to make use of the long holiday and raise some money for charity. So Emma and I went ahead and did the National Three Peaks Challenge, with my brother Simon in support. This year was Ceri’s turn to finish her GCSEs and she,
With the results of my latest scans showing that I remain cancer free, I have a six month window of opportunity to fill. Hopefully, much more than six months, but my next scans are set for then, and the wait for those results will, inevitably, derail me somewhat. But, for now, I’m
I recently did a post about which nuts and seeds were good for your diet?. To which the answer was, ‘Well, none of them really!’ Certainly not in any quantity. The reason for this was the high fat content of nuts and seeds. The thing is, though, that nuts and seeds are
Despite thinking that my weight loss success in June was tricky, July has got it beat. But, I suppose, ‘success’ is a relative term. Towards the end of last month’s post, I wrote: “In all honesty, my idea of weight loss success in July is that I’m the same weight as I
After the hectic and crowded nature of last year’s package holiday to the Dominican Republic, this year we decided to go the other way. When the girls were younger, we had some lovely one week villa holidays, usually in May. So, this year, we thought we’d try a variation on that theme
This post is the third in a trilogy, encompassing some of the conversations I’ve had with my daughters about the current state of sexual politics. The first of the posts looked at Feminism, and the second at Toxic Masculinity. This final aspect of the topic ties everything together, as I discuss Gender
