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…
Getting those extra gifts for the best family in the world – that is always a challenge isn’t it. The shops in those gorgeous holiday villages always make their giftware look so enticing and to a certaine xtend I like to shop in each and every one of them, just Read more…
We usually think of Christmas time as the main present and gift buying season – this of course starts just after Easter as far as the shops are concerned. There never seems to be a gap between the seasons now and just as soon as one event has come upon Read more…
Just as we’re heading towards the Christmas and year end, the possibility of grim weather comes with it. I’ve never known such changeable climatic conditions – when I was young we knew exactly where we were. Spring brought gusty weather with rain showers but these got warmer as we headed Read more…
Sometimes it can be a real struggle to think of something orginal and/or exciting for that special birthday or anniversary present. You wander up and down the aisle of your local store – or high street. Nothing jumps out at you to say ‘buy me, they want me . . Read more…
This is just the time where we need to get organised where gifting is concerned. The period between summer holidays ad Christmas always catches me out. I have these grand plans to get my list in order and have it all done and dusted by end of November. But of Read more…
Ah the heady cloudless blue sky of bright summer. Wow and what a summer this is turning out to be already. When we reach first week of the tennis tournament, we know that summer has arrived and if the pattern from the last couple of years, is the norm, then Read more…