My friends and I used to joke that I have enough clothes to wear a different item every day, without ever having to repeat an outfit. While it’s true that that was (is) a joke, the reality is that I have far more clothes than I need. The reason for the glut of garments relates to … Continue reading
For a long time I’ve been reading blogs and dreaming about the day that I’ll live in a huge house that is always clean, and my work is always all done, and I have children of my own to inspire. Before then, I’ve always thought, there’s no point trying to create provocations. My stepchildren are too … Continue reading
Late last year my husband volunteered our house for a New Year’s Eve party with our friends. Theoretically I was fine with the idea of hosting, but practically it was another story. Our house looked like a bomb site. And I’m not using hyperbole here, the house hadn’t had a proper clean in longer than … Continue reading
Lately I’ve been struggling to find the energy to do anything around the house/garden. Ordinarily I don’t get a lot achieved during the week and everything gets left to the weekend, only for some reason lately that hasn’t really been working out. This weekend, however, I had nothing planned so I decided to write myself … Continue reading
Nick and I moved into our house almost three years ago. It took me a year before I actually got everything unpacked and sorted. For some reason, in that haze of ‘organising’ I declared that we would keep all our household cables (you know, aerial points, chargers, ethernet cables, printer cables) in a tub together. … Continue reading
According to the ants, when the weather gets hot the place to be is my kitchen pantry. I suppose I should really thank them for that because it wasn’t until I was pulling everything out of the pantry to try to remove the trail of ants that I really looked at it. It’s a fairly disorganised … Continue reading
Way back wheno I said that I planned this year to do one post a month about a project that I had been planning to do for a while, but hadn’t gotten around to. I feel this project amply qualifies as I purchased the material to make it almost 2.5 years ago. At this time … Continue reading
