Oh how I laughed when my neighbour’s grandaughter bought me a cactus as a thank you present. It seemed a very odd thing to get, but her mum told me that she’s had an absolute fascination with prickly plants and succulents since tiny and this […]
In this very hot and sunny weather, it can be a real problem to see when the sun streams in through large windows. Of course, we do love the warmth and all winter long, when it’s grim wet and snowy, we long for the sun, […]
My daughter has moved into a gorgeous stone property – right out in the middle of nowhere. Well, it’s near a main road but there are no facilities or even a village nearby. Everything is a drive away. This doesn’ worry them – they have […]
I do love a good magazine, particularly those at the high end of the market. Now that I subscribe to the best online source, I get access to absolutely any publication that comes out. It is so fabulous! I have been meaning to get myself […]
I have recently come back from staying down in the south with relatives. They have access to a truly magnificent out of town antique and second hand emporium – the like of which I have never seen before, except in the old market and bazaars […]
Sometimes it can be very difficult to raise the required energy and enthusiasm to go and hit the furnishing & homeware stores. It tends to be get in the car, race off to the nearest out of town emporium and then a dead stop. The […]
Ah the joys of chrstmas and the new year period are well and truly out of the way. We can relax and get on with the really important things in life. Picking holiday locations and organising the cottage . . . Choosing the new paint […]
Isn’t it funny how certain times of the year bring particular memories – for me just thinking about Easter reminds me always of one particular house we lived in. I always think of the sunny daffodil strewn gardens and blissfully happy days etc. Of course, […]
I was looking around our sitting room the other day – having been given the task of setting up dna decorating the Christmas tree, for which I am famous – only within my family circles, you understand! I had all the items available, the great […]
This is just the time of year when I feel most comfortable in almost everything I do. i suspect it is because I am an autumn birthday guy and as with so many folk I know, the time of year of birth does seem to […]
