One of the joys of looking after the home of an ancient relative is being able to poke around in the kitchen and other cupboards – during those quiet moments when attention is not needed in the sick room. . Read more…
I always need to have a pointer towards the perfect gift for anyone. I find it extremely difficult to just look through a store and find exactly the right thing. It used to drive me mad years ago. Hours and Read more…
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 . . 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 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 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…