Monthly Archives: February 2016

Life Happened: A normal week

Posted on February 29, 2016 by nicdempsey

It’s not that I’ve had any really abnormal weeks this year it’s just that last week has been so normal. Honestly, nothing really happened. No dramas at work, I was in before around 8am each morning, got the work I needed … Continue reading →

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2016 Goal Recap – February

Posted on February 27, 2016 by nicdempsey

When my Oli wants to draw your attention to something that he thinks that you ought to have done but he doesn’t want to outright ask and appear rude, he starts a sentence with “Do you remember…..”. So at lunch … Continue reading →

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Friday Links

Posted on February 26, 2016 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I am more or less avoiding this week’s two big new items Brexit and Donald Trump. This is ’cause we have months more to think and talk and read about them and I just can’t this week… Happy … Continue reading →

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Blood Orange Syrup

Posted on February 25, 2016 by nicdempsey

Around this time of year the internet seems to be full of recipes for things involving blood oranges. It is citrus season but the obsession with blood oranges seems to be a mainly US thing because I’ve never seen them … Continue reading →

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Food and Budget Update: 13/02 to 19/02/2016

Posted on February 23, 2016 by nicdempsey

It that time of the week! Here’s this week’s recap on what I ate and spent on eating. I should start off by noting that it was a bad week not for budget or shopping but for eating because I … Continue reading →

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Life Happened: Small Children…

Posted on February 22, 2016 by nicdempsey

Last week was not an altogether great week. Monday was fine, after work I went to the Baxters to help with bedtime and get told that there was ‘no hitting, no throwing and no throwing stones’ in the Baxter household, so … Continue reading →

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Friday Links

Posted on February 19, 2016 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Here are this weeks links… Koalas are on the endangered species list and get chlamydia. The only thing I knew about koalas before that was that they aren’t actually bears and that sometimes they fall out of trees … Continue reading →

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Breakfast wraps

Posted on February 18, 2016 by nicdempsey

I am a creature of habit in lots of ways, I like routine and when I like eating something, I tend to eat it a lot until I’m sick of it. I’ve about reached that stage with my breakfasts, the … Continue reading →

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Food and Budget Update: 06/02 to 12/02/2016

Posted on February 16, 2016 by nicdempsey

It that time of the week! Here’s this week’s recap on what I ate and spent on eating… SHOPPING  This was the list for this week, which was quite long I tend to split the list into shops, so Lidl … Continue reading →

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Life Happened: Slogging through February

Posted on February 15, 2016 by nicdempsey

It’s the middle of February and February is the month that everyone has SAD. We’ve got through the difficult dark post Christmas days of January and are rewarded with another dark month. It is getting lighter but by teeny tiny amounts so … Continue reading →

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