Tag Archives: 2023

Friday Links:

Posted on February 3, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! It’s been a week… Low-cost housing: how can you escape the rent rat race? This makes me furious. These are all insecure housing options. Ma’s flat has some disadvantages but the best thing it has is security of tenure … Continue reading →

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A Day in Food: The Living with Mother Edition

Posted on February 2, 2023 by nicdempsey

I’m choosing to use this time with Ma to reset my diet, post Christmas, I’ve been trying to use things up edited the kitchen build, while I wouldn’t call it terrible I’m ready to get back to a bit more … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Things for 2023

Posted on February 1, 2023 by nicdempsey

As the allotment is going to be sidelined over the next few weeks because of the kitchen works, here are a couple of things I want to focus this season: Infrastructure We are pretty much done with major building and … Continue reading →

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The Kitchen and Plans for the flat

Posted on January 31, 2023 by nicdempsey

I’ve lived in my little flat for 13 years. When I was originally looking for a flat, the estate agent asked me to list the three most important things to me and I said a kitchen, unfurnished, I could put … Continue reading →

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Monday Miscellany: Living with Mother

Posted on January 30, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Monday! As you may have guessed from the title, I’m now at Ma’s for the next two to three weeks, if it goes into four, I may have to check into a hotel to preserve our relationship and our … Continue reading →

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Eat Real Food

Posted on January 26, 2023 by nicdempsey

I hope I’ve been honest about how I cook and eat food because it’s important. What we eat is important for our health but it’s not only that. We live in a world that is experiencing climate crisis. Where not … Continue reading →

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Sunday Music: Scritti Politti – Umm

Posted on January 22, 2023 by nicdempsey

It just popped into my head this week so here it is…

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Friday Links: If you think everything is fine, you’re not paying attention

Posted on January 20, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I don’t know about everyone else but it feels like 1992 (I’ve been saying that for a while), back then, things felt awful but I’d not really known anything else, Thatcher came to power when I was five, … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Soggy and Bedraggled

Posted on January 18, 2023 by nicdempsey

Despite the rainy weather, all the packing and moving and, the excessive socialising I did at the weekend. Ma and I did get a very short trip to the plot last Saturday. It was wet and looking bedraggled. It’s in … Continue reading →

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Monday Miscellany: Tired Already

Posted on January 16, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Monday! It’s Blue Monday today, the point at which the New Year stops being full of optimism and starts to feel like a grind! It’s fair to say that I’ve been feeling like that for at least a week! … Continue reading →

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