I appreciate that it’s cold outside (actually it’s incredibly cold outside at the moment), and that everyone gets a bit under the weather sometimes, but that doesn’t excuse three things: excessive coughing, sniffing and throat clearing on public transport. And I shall explain why…
1. Coughing - OK so it’s an uncontrollable reaction, but seriously at least put your hand over your mouth, and if it’s so bad that you can’t stop doing it for 30 mins then perhaps you should be in bed or at least have a glass or water.
2. Sniffing - Blow. Your. Nose.
3. Throat Clearing - Perhaps the most annoying of all. Do I need to explain why?
OK I’m calm again now. Maybe I have been a little harsh, as let’s face it when I’m sick (which will inevitably happen sometime in the next six months) I will expect everyone to be sympathetic and excuse my sniffing/coughing/sneezing… though I will at least carry a big pack of tissues with me…
If I were to hazard a guess, I would estimate that over 50% of blogs written by a blogger who seriously intends on maintaining it contain a post apologising for not posting for weeks/ months. After noticing the gap of almost a week between posts from earlier in the month, I felt compelled to apologise and grovel and promise to write more regularly… But, I have decided that I wont.
Maybe it’s an English thing, but I spend half my life apologising for things, even when I’m not at fault - someone isn’t looking where they are going, they bump into me, and I say sorry. The apology has lost all sincerity through overuse… but that’s another issue for another post, what I want to explain is why I wont apologise for not writing in my blog (if anyone has foolishly continued reading up to this point).
In my mind a blog is somewhere where you can express your opinions, somewhere you can process what is going on in your mind, and somewhere you can share pretty pictures/ interesting articles/ fun videos. However it is not an obligation. Although of course the point of having a blog is to write posts for it, if we have nothing that we want to share then there is no point blogging about nothing… let’s face it we have all posted something for the sake of posting something and perhaps been mildly disappointed that we had to resort to it.
My reason for not posting (if I need an excuse, which I of course don’t yet still feel compelled to give…) is that I have been busy with work. I have had time to post, but not the energy. I have kept a list of ideas for posts (lots of tennis related ideas, which I suddenly realised last week was something I had intended to post about a lot), and hopefully I will get round to them in a speedy fashion, if not then don’t hold your breath for an apology… [I’m sorry if this came across as rude…]
I made a lemon drizzle cake for the Mr’s birthday a couple of weeks back, but have been slow to post it on here because it was a bit of a disappointment. Firstly it didn’t rise very much (which was undoubtedly my fault), and secondly it was just so extremely lemon-y. Far too lemon-y in fact. And we both like lemon deserts… Anyway, I have copied it out below and I’m sure an able baker can rectify it to make it more enjoyable.
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Having finally waded my way through all 90 pages of The Prince, it’s finally time for me to start reading something else. I would like to say that my slow progress through Machiavelli’s text was due to busyness but since I didn’t start working until last Monday there really is no excuse… still I read it, digested it, vaguely remember some of his key concepts, and now have the delicious satisfaction of knowing that I have indeed read it.
Now I shall be reading Saturday by Ian McEwan. I have only ever read one other book by McEwan, Enduring Love, which I enjoyed, so I’m looking forward to trying another one. The Mr’s father leant me his copy of Saturday so I guess I really will need to crack on with i! I will update you with my thoughts/ ramblings on it if I have any once I have finished it.

The Mr asked me to make a biscuit-y treat that he could bring into the office on his birthday last week. He had mentioned millionaire’s shortbread a few days earlier, and so I thought I’d take a risk and make it. I made ‘Black Millionaire’s Shortbread’ which uses treacle and golden syrup instead of caramel, which results in a really rich end result.
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Dear reader I married him. Not quite. I am employed.