The summer can be a very funny time to be organising large homewares, and o an extent, larger items of giftware. With so much emphasis on family holidays, there is often a conflict oer the finances available. However, to ensure the perfect giftware or homeware can be obtained, particularly if Read more…
There has been no let up in the amount of gift buying this last week, that’s for sure. With the Coronation in full swing, the shops in London have been full of all sorts of memorabilia – some of it is of very lovely quality and actually look fantastic. I Read more…
This time of year is so exciting for every stage of adulthood. When at the younger end, there are the love tokens and flowers aplenty, leading a little later to weddings and then christenings, hopefully. When that phase is over, then the sorting out of that forever home comes into Read more…
I have had a most expensive 2022. Having decided for a new year resolution that I needed to tidy up my kitchen, perhaps improve the state of the old worktop . . . . Funny how that one thought triggered an entire sunami of activity. I went in to one Read more…
As we approach the holiday season it becomes apparent that I’m not as organised as many other folk. I like to buy things specifically for the recipient but several of my friends and relative buy in a bulk lot of bits and bobs throughout the year and decide who’s having Read more…
As the summer has been and departed, we are left with the reminders of that scorchingly hot period. so many excessively sunny days! I am old enough to remember the one onme ’76. There were water shortages well before the ones introduced this year. We had to not use hosepipes Read more…
We all love to think of hot sunny days down by the beach don’t we . . . well we think we do. Lately though there has been such an surge in the take up of uk based holidays that the popular beaches are pretty much crowded from dawn until Read more…
Oh my goodness don’t we have to think about things carefully when buying giftware. When I was small we used to have birthday presents that came from Woolworths. Always reliably well made and worked for years. Today’s children have to be protected from loose buttons, wires whatever. the age group Read more…
It’s very easy to get into the habit of going on line to the biggest warehouse in the universe and just order absolutely anything our heart or houses desire. The lockdowns over the last couple of years has definitely put a nail in the coffin of the small independent retailer Read more…
There cannot be many families who have not thought about changing the way they hand out gifts. The Christmas thing is too well established to mess around with established practices. However many extended families agree that instead of small individual presents, putting an equivalent amount of money in the pot Read more…