Fiona Cullinan

After revealing my lockdown pot belly the other day, today started with a walk BEFORE breakfast. I read recently that if you do some activity before eating then you really, really look forward to breakfast. And since I really, really look forward to breakfast already, I wondered how many ‘reallys’…

The lockdown continues to ease. From Monday, in England, groups of up to six people from different households will be able to meet outside. So that’s pretty much all my local family. I’m sure a picnic will soon be arranged. Tonight I jumped the gun and met with my elderly…

Trigger warning: this is partly about body size and shape. This isn’t about weight gain/loss so much as how lockdown has changed my eating habits and fitness routine, and up-ended efforts to improve my health. The Zoe Covid reporting app has documented lockdown weight gain as a trend here. The last time…

Once again, after a long work day and a modern affliction of scriveners’ palsy of the mouse hand, I am thankful for a guest post submission. I have poured myself a painkilling restorative of gifted prosecco – more on which below – as is the scribe’s way, and now sit down…

GDPR when it came this day in May two years offered a fantastic declutter. I slowly unclogged my email and moved everything over to take-or-leave RSS feeds on Feedly. I kept only about five excellent email subscriptions. One is Roden from Craig Mod who lives and walks in Japan and…

Today I delivered food to four local households. I say food. It was rhubarb. Enjoy your sour and stringy crumbles, friends. Smother it with custard then kill it with fire. Thanks It was nice to say doorstop hellos to various rhubarb-lovers. It was also quite special to meet up with…

It’s a Saturday night and there’s nothing much exciting to tell. Just maybe know… …that I’ve finished Mad Men and revisited The Marvellous Mrs Maisel. So I’m now going backwards in time. …that I found a tiny oak sapling on my allotment and have brought it home and put it…

My lovely sister Chris has submitted a guest ‘Pants-Demic’ diary post – she has been doing maths battle with the cosmic accountant again while using the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein as a teaching weapon. So happy the ‘Mary Poppins of Maths’ has logged one of her typical lockdown days.…