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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…