A friend of my recently said, it feels as though we’ve been in lockdown for three years. Many businesses’ doors are still closed to the public. How are they coping? Especially, the smaller ones. I recently put that question and more to Emeka Ikechi,...
Finding time for yourself is every mother’s challenge. If there’s anything good that’s come from the current global pandemic, it’s that we’ve slowed down in one way or another. True, we are home schooling, working from home and dealing with other life demands. Still,...
February is the shortest month of the year and quite busy. In February there’s Chinese New Year, Valentine’s Day and if you from the Caribbean it’s Carnival season. This year all those big moments are happening within a few days of each other, albeit Carnival parades...
Growing up, I’d see my grandmother making breakfast, lunch AND SOMETIMES even dinner for the tradespeople who worked on our extended family home. Maybe because on islands, the tradesperson you hired was likely to be is a friend of a friend or something like that. In...
Christmas 2019, hubby, Ange and I were very sick. Poor Lil V ate week old leftover food on Christmas Day, we were that poorly. We rang in the New Year in Cinderford which was lovely but we still didn’t have the energy to as much as we normally would while on...
The third January in the year (18th Jan this year) is said to be the saddest day, Blue Monday. Some say was a PR stunt by Sky Travel who worked with Dr. Cliff Arnall in 2005, to find out when the saddest day of the year occurred. The aim was to encourage people to...
