Friendship is a wonderful thing, often taken for granted but always missed when it's no longer there. I was going to write this post a few weeks ago but life got in the way and it seemed fitting to post the images now, given that it's half term and everyone's looking for things to do... Continue Reading →
The Vertigro modular growing system at Grand Designs Live
Regular readers of the Moregeous blog will know that we've become partial to a bit of grow-your-own greenery of late, and this invention we spotted at Grand Designs this weekend is a superb idea. A modular and free-standing unit, the Vertigro is a vertical vegetable patch, herb garden or flower display with the limited space... Continue Reading →
1.1.11: Cat litter & cottage pie – how (not?) to start a year
I've spent New Year's Eve in some funny places and there are a few where I can't quite recall where I was, but this one, where the chimes of Big Ben and the fireworks of Fallowfield could be heard as I scraped out and cleaned a cat tray in my cold and drizzly garden has... Continue Reading →
Food: Magical Narnia Nosh with the Manchester Gastro Club
I recall very vividly reading C.S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe during my top class at primary school and loving every word, writing an extensive review and having it pinned up on the wall by Mrs Scary Ormsby, I was so proud! The books were magical then and continue to capture my imagination... Continue Reading →
Food: Heaven is finding yourself on a cake tasting panel
Regular readers of the Moregeous blog will have noticed a few recurring themes: property renovations, events in West Didsbury, random injuries.... and cake. As a confessed self-employed stresshead, cake plays a major role in my life for it's comforting, uplifting, fortifying and pleasuring qualities, it never fails to make me smile. Unless it has jam in... Continue Reading →
Project Green Tea – Lush menu gets a great M.E.N review
Delighted to read the review of Green Tea in tonight's Manchester Evening News, they gave the new menu a resounding thumbs up. Jenny & Xioana have worked so hard, they definitely deserve this very positive feature. Green Tea’s new décor is suitably fresh and modern, with dark wood, crystal light fittings, shell-toned accessories and white... Continue Reading →
Working from home = domestic goddess
One of the benefits of working from home all day is that you can do something a little more constructive with your breaks than what is the home-workers equivalent of hanging round the water cooler, surfing the Daily Mail TV&Showbiz page. Don't pretend you don't do it, you're only lying to yourself 😉 Now, be... Continue Reading →