I have now been back at work for three weeks, and I haven't managed to write a single word for the Blog. It's been exhausting, stressful, and very, very different to life pre-lockdown, but I'm so glad that we're open again... For anyone who doesn't already know, my family run a pub in a small coastal town in Somerset. We re-opened three weeks ago, after three and a half months in lockdown, and it's taken all this time to get used to the new setup. We've had to remove tables t

The Daughter has been trying to persuade me to dye her hair blue and it reminded me of an ill fated occasion, back in my teens, when my hair turned orange! I must have been about thirteen or fourteen years old when I had the bright idea of dying my hair blonde. At that age, my hair was beginning to turn from ash blonde (which I deemed acceptable) to a boring mousy brown. In my mind, the least attractive hair colour of them all. I went into town with my school friends to pick

We had a very narrow escape this morning when I nearly sent a photo of my Husband, just getting out of the shower, to my Daughter's Art Teacher... Here's a picture of him with his towel draped over his arm, wearing a rather stony expression! All joking aside, it really was a very lucky escape. Although it would of made excellent reading for you all, had I accidentally pressed send, I don't think my Husband could ever of stepped foot in our Daughter's School again. And, for th