I vowed to blog once a week this year and with being in the
second week of the year I can’t start breaking those promises to myself now. So
whilst I have nothing really to rant or rave about I’ll give you a little round
up of what is on my mind this week.
Goggles at the ready
I LOVE living in Oxford. It's everything I want from a
city, nice cocktails bars, trendy shops, lots of green areas and a lovely river runs through
it. This is the river I can spend summers punting on it, running by the river path and
generally enjoy the calmness of water. Then comes a good ole’ British rainfall
– cue bursting river banks, flooded main roads and never ending traffic jams.
Oxford is bad enough for traffic on a normal day, but when two of the main
roads that lead into the city are flooded my commute goes from 20 minutes to 1
hour. To top this off my car is in the garage, so the lovely boyf has been
taxiing me into work and spends an hour in traffic each way (now that is love and the benefits of a flexible employer on his side). We are
expecting more rainfall tonight, so tomorrow’s commute should be even more
interesting.
Naked Juicing
After a late night on Friday the boyf and I finally showed
our hungover and tired faces to the public at around 7pm on Saturday night, and
crawled over to Sainsbury’s to find supplies to feed our hungover souls (thanks
to no takeaway January we had to face the elements). Whilst walking around the
supermarket buying the essential hangover supplies (kettle chips, dip, chicken
wings) the boyf was checking out the milkshake aisle and got wooed by the Naked
juices, so spent £2.50 on a Green Machine to fuel our 5 minute walk home. It
made the scrimper (Indian) in me flinch to pay £2.50 for a small juice, when the
Sainsburys own 1 liter bottle was only £2, but they are totally worth it. If
you have never had a Naked juice before I urge you to try one – either flavor,
they are both wonderful. The norm is that when
we find a good edible product, the boyf and I try to recreate it at home, as
nothing beats homemade. However our beautiful blender would not be up to
the challenge of juicing, and would crush everything we wanted to juice into a
stodgy pulp – so we decided this year’s Christmas present to ourselves with be
a juicer.
With very little online research we headed to town on Sunday
to have a ‘look’ at the juicers; myself more worried about the size of them and
if we would have space in the kitchen, the boyf more worried about the price of
them and if we would have space in the bank account. After a quick trot around
Robert Dyas, we ended up in Argos within 5 minutes we have purchased the Argos
own-brand cheap as chips Juicer. We went with cheap because usually when we get
into these things it’s a complete phase that lasts a week; so dropping £150 on
a juicer would not warrant for now. Though if this phase becomes a daily habit
I may have to make the plunge of purchasing a ‘posh’ juicer. After Argos it was off to the
supermarket to pick up anything and everything we can juice. With an array of
fresh fruit and vegetable in hand we got home and made a cup of tea and discussed the mixed emotions we have of juicing broccoli.
With the excitement of the juicer downstairs and the
prospect of a freshly squeezed juice I woke up 20 minutes early on Monday
morning and made a freshly juiced carrot, broccoli, orange and apple juice and
it was so worth losing 20 minutes sleep too. It’s Wednesday today and I've
manage to juice every morning, and already feeling better for it (mainly
because I get about 4 out of my 5 a day by 8 am). It is also tasty and quick to drink, so maybe it won’t just be a phase but a permanent breakfast replacement.
I’m also itching to do a juice fast, but I promised myself
no fad diets anymore, plus I know it will drive me crazy as I’ll miss chewing
too much.
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| The Juice of our Fruits; Carrot, Broccoli, Orange and Apple |
50p Man
I caught up on benefits street last night and although I
did not like the way Channel 4 executed the show, I was touched by the 50p man,
Smoggy. From what I saw of him it sounds like he had faced a life of crime and its
consequences – he had learnt from it and all he wanted to do now was better
himself by doing the little he can, with frankly a great business idea. I won’t
give away the full story as some people are yet to catch up, but the entrepreneur
from Birmingham in my inspiration of the week, if he can find the energy and
spark to get up and make a change we all can.
More on his story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-25654789?ocid=socialflow_facebook_newsmagazine.
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