Smorgasbord Blog Magazine Weekly Round Up – 10th – 16th May 2020 – Relationships, ABBA, Ink Fish, Italian Tomato Sauce, Books and Laughter

Welcome to the Smorgasbord Weekly round up with posts you might have missed during the week..

It has been a full house this week with our regular contributors D.G.Kaye, William Price King, Carol Taylor and Silvia Todesco making sure that we have plenty of food for thought about relationships, music to dance to, recipes using ingredients beginning with the letter ‘I’ and the way you should be making the classic Italian tomato sauce.

We are seeing a lifting of some of the restrictions from Monday here in Ireland with bubbles of four people allowed to mingle, DIY and Garden Centres opened (I will wait a week until they get over their first rush of customers) and an extended exercise range of 5k. The Irish government are taking a very cautious approach and making adjustments every two weeks so that they can monitor the impact of lifting restrictions piecemeal.

Our tourist industry that welcomes 9 million visitors a year will be taking a hit of around 5 billion Euro as they face a two week guarantine period when they arrive. Restaurants, cafes and pubs are going to be the last to be opened which also means local communities will be struggling, and some businesses may never open again.

I am sure that countries will recover, but the world as we knew it is going to be changed dramatically, especially in regard to working environments and world travel.

I hope that wherever you are, and whatever your particular government is doing with regard to restrictions, that you will continue to take care when out.

Just a reminder that the new series of the Health Column – Project 101 – Resilience starts on Tuesday. I will be looking at the small changes we who are over 65 can make in both diet and lifestyle to improve our resilience to opportunistic pathogens that cross our paths. This includes addressing the key issues that have been identified at putting us at greater risk of not surviving being infected. Being 67 has made me conscious of the areas that I need to address and I have been working on these over the last nine weeks and I hope you will find them helpful.  I promise there will be some fun involved…

Now time for posts from the week.. and thank you for all your support, it is much appreciated.

D. G. Kaye Explores the Realms of Relationships – Forming Healthy Relationships – What’s Inside the Box?

William Price King – ABBA – Part Three – Mid-1970s

Carol Taylor – A – Z of Food – ‘I’ is for Icing, Ink Fish, Indian Black Salt, Infusing Immortalittea and Irish Stew…

Italian tomatoes sauce: the truth about “Marinara”

Part Six – Malta and the Far East 1946

How the Stable was Built 1936

Adventures in the USA – 1985 – Easter in New Orleans

Tales from the Garden – The Guardians

Etheree – Advancing Years

Drought Spain

UFOs at Sunset

Apricots – no honeymoon should be without Them!

#Scifi Richard Dee, #Romance Ritu Bhathal, #Thriller Carol Balawyder

#Childrens Deanie Humphrys Dunne, #Vietnam Chuck Jackson, #Dystopian Sandra J. Jackson

#Thriller S. Burke, #Mystery Lizzie Chantree, #Shortstories Anne Goodwin

#WWII – While the Bombs Fell by Robbie Cheadle and Elsie Hancy Eaton

#Memoir – My Ideal Partner by Abbie Johnson Taylor

#Memoir- My Gentle War by Joy Lennick

#SciFi – The Godsend: Innerscape: Book Two by A.C. Flory

#YAFantasy – The Curse of Time : Book One – Bloodstone by M.J. Mallon

Afghanistan – No More Mulberries by Mary Smith.. on offer this weekend 99p/99c

May 12th 2020 – Hosts Debby Gies and Sally Cronin

May 14th 2020 – Hosts Debby Gies and Sally Cronin

More seclusion humour from the senior team

Thank you very much for dropping by today and I hope you will join us again next week.. thanks Sally.