Sheila Bridge Blog
Yesterday I was able to spend quite a long time with the boys teaching them some English, playing with puzzles and looking at books. ‘Where’s Wally?’ is one of their favourite books, they are content to search over and over again at the crowded pages seeking out the little red and white Wally figure. Last... Continue Reading →
This was my first view of Beira as I arrived on Weds. My journey went very smoothly, thankfully. I was delighted to be reunited with both my suitcase and my friend Victoria. First impressions were fairly overwhelming: noise from the building site outside our bedroom. the street vendors with all their goods on the pavement,... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow I am setting off for Mozambique. I've been practicing my portuguese, packing my bag, and trying not to panic. I am going on my own to visit Casa Re'om, a home for street kids in Beira and I am very much looking forward to seeing Victoria who works there and meeting Oliveira and Angelica... Continue Reading →
Here is a really excellent piece of advice: 'NEVER EVER compare the edited, digitally enhanced, carefully presented highlights of someone else's life with the broken, wonky, slightly unhinged or painful reality that you know to be your own. Don't ever look at 'other people' and think 'wow, they've got it all together, their lives are so... Continue Reading →
What is a Watt Bike? And why would you want to go on one? Matt from The One Show is cycling from Edinburgh to London on a rickshaw for Children in Need and this evening he was shown training on a Watt Bike! I'm not going to or from either of those places and definitely... Continue Reading →
I am a 'woman of od'. Mainly this is because my mobile phone will currently not allow me to tap in the letter 'g'. If it doesn't sort out this (g)litch soon, I will have to (g)et a new one. So here, while I am a 'woman of Od' are some of the slightly more... Continue Reading →
I have just had to ring the bank. I was after a 'letter of no further interest'. It didn't help that I didn't know what one of those was or even why I wanted one. Nor did I have any other information they required. All I had were a few key words such as 'mortgage',... Continue Reading →
Well it looked like a nice day from my bedroom window. Even better it is my day off, I feel a bike ride coming on... better just check the forecast. "Stock markets are crashing, sub atomic particles are moving faster than the speed of light and Nasa predicts space debris falling from the sky" Great!... Continue Reading →
We have just had a holiday in Porec, in Croatia and liked it very much. Porec is pronounced 'porridge', which gave my husband the dubious pleasure of declaring every time we arrived by boat 'we are slowly turning into porridge'. We arrived by boat quite a lot because our hotel was on an island. The... Continue Reading →
Outrageous! What is this country coming to? Here is a pot of blueberry mousse. A mousse is a dessert usually based on whipped cream, fruit and gelatin. This one appears to have some very alternative ingredients: The words on the pot clearly state 'Blueberry Mouse'. Really? Would that be complete with droppings? I feel a... Continue Reading →
