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…
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 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 Read more…