Work To Live

As a household, we hate food waste and whenever we can, we try to minimise throwing out food. This typically means making sure we have used stuff before it goes out of date, being quite open to using stuff beyond its Best Before, and freezing any leftovers we have - yep, this includes kebabs! Some waste is unavoidable, though. Whether it's the bits we trim off the fruit and veg we use, or the fact that the greens in our trug decide to hit turbo boost all at the same time, we do need to throw stuff out. This infuriates us! Being keen gardeners too - ok, so Sam holds most of the green fingers here - we would love to compost our food scraps and use them on the stuff we grow. You know, Circle of Life and all that? Traditional composting is messy if you have an urban garden, and we've never been that successful at it when we've tried. The mice liked to nest under the compost bin, which gave Mitzy endless fun, but apart from that we didn't have much joy. About a year ago, Sam...

If there is one lesson the recent Covid-19 situation has taught me, it is that people really care about toilet paper.  Never would I have predicted that in a world-wide crisis, the first thing all human beings would think is "do I have enough toilet roll to see me through the next 4 years?". If anything, it actually makes me feel a little more positive that should we ever be in that end-of-the-world situation, we will all have nice clean bums.  Another positive to come out of the toilet roll saga is that the local drug dealers have found a new venture. Toilet rolls, even those a little worn and used around the edges, is raking in more money right now that any illegal drugs. And assuming social distancing rules are maintained, there is no worry of getting in trouble with the law..... unless the rolls are stolen, which I expect most of them are, given you can't buy them in the stops!  Going back to the purpose of this post.....  Lee and I were completely unaffected by ...

We've only been skiing in Austria twice but it is quickly becoming one of our favourite countries to head to in search of good snow, epic parties and warm hospitality. With two other ski holidays already booked this year, we couldn't quite squeeze in a third week so had to settle for a long weekend, travelling Thursday lunchtime to Monday night.  We chose the resort of Mayrhofen as it is close to Innsbruck airport (just under an hour by car), has a good sized ski area with plenty of intermediate runs and, a well known après-ski scene. Nothing beats a cold beer and some 'singalong' Austrian ski hits to finish a good day's skiing! The holiday was booked through SunWeb, an online travel company specialising in ski holidays. Our holiday included the flights, transfer, ski passes and 4 nights half board in the  Hotel Zillertalerhof . We found SunWeb to be professional and responsive online, providing us with everything we needed to make the whole trip go very smoothly p...