How times have changed – I was talking with a group of rather senior ladies last week, we were at a fund raising event in the nearest big town. We being of the country set, don’t you know . . . were discussing the lack of proper department stores in Read more…
It was a wonder sometimes how I managed to get through the year and suddenly it was christmas . . . panic hit me and I’d go round in a wild frenzy of grab and snatch present buying. This seemed to be the pattern for everything I dealt with in Read more…
When you have several celebratory activities in a month it can be bewildering, especially if you overspent during the christmas period and are still adjusting the budget! The best way to ensure you control things is to make a proper list, starting with your favourite address book, check out each Read more…
I am always ina quandry at Christmas and other major present buying times of the year. I let the event overwhelm me, worrying about who might like this or that, and did I get a simlar thing before. . etc. It has been the bane of my adult life – Read more…
A young couple I know are in the middle of house exchange – having sold their delighful and much loved starter home of extremely modes proportion, they are making their way up the mortgage ladder to a bigger, stone conversion offering much bigger rooms. This is all very exciting but Read more…
Chatting this morning to the kiddies who live next door – I discover they’d just returned from their ‘main’ summer holiday – a week’s all inclusive in Ibiza. Apparently they’re expecting to go away again before the beginning of the next school term. The kiddies were highly excited and said Read more…
It has always been a bit of a dilemma to me whether to give household items, for example, dinnerware or kitchenalia, as christmas and birthday presents. My own mother was absoltely anti such a practice and I can remember the look of thunder on her face when poor old dad Read more…
Oh how we partied recently. A relatives was having a shin-dig to celebrate a milestone birthday – the one between 20 and 40. She’s not a party animal by any stretch of the imagination, and I was amazed when she consented to her partner getting one organised for her. However, Read more…
I have a young relative who has set up home with her partner – using the bank of mum and dad to get on that mortgage ladder. There is so much to be acquired when setting up home together for the first time. Although they both had gear left over Read more…
I live in a fairly unexciting town that had one sole industry – literally, they made shoes. Thousands, in fact, probably millions , including for the army in the first and second world wars. The whole of the town seems had connections with the industry the huge numbers of factories Read more…