You know when christmas is approaching – from the middle of August we get nothing but adverts in the stores and on tv. The power of advertising is quite something and it influences every decision we make. I do try to resist this for as […]
It’s getting to be the top sales period for out of town country stores and garden centres now. We’ve had the most exhausting and yet interesting summer period known in this country. Sales of anything to conserve and retain water for plants and lawns have […]
This is the season for us to sit back and take stock of the spring and summer we’ve just come out of. Autumn is a wonderful time for me – I was born in this period, so am biased of course. I do love the […]
It can be such a whirl of acticity when the family holiday has been and gone . . . . and everyone suddenly starts getting ready for autumn and christmas. There is a most definite step change in the atmosphere in the local shopping mall. […]
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 […]
