One of the best things we used to do prior to lockdown was go out for the day to historic houses and castles. We’ve always been a family that enjoys exploring historic towns – our holidays wer always centred somewhere that offered a cathedral or at the very least, a lovely old church. Then there’s […]
Category: Gifts
I’ve never been particularly keen on going round the shops for clothing. It was always painful when we had social engagemnts ahead that required the most dreaded thing for me . . . . the wife’s new dress! Oh my goodness that was always a nightmare and it still surprises me today that we managed […]
With so many changes to our clothing and gift purchasing habits these days, there is a definite shift away from meandering up and down the ‘high street’ as we are used to referring to it. Gone, slowly but surely are those leisurely hours just wandering in to each clothing store, grabbing several items and queuing […]
I was out with an old colleague recently – she lives abroad and ‘comes home’ once a year to catch up with family stuff. It makes a great holiday for her and me as we scoot around meeting up with all our former colleagues and old acquaintances. We have a wonderful time shopping for clothing […]
I have a large house, for one person, and as a consequence, I tend to fill it up with too many purchases throughout the year. Have an empty double fitted wardrobe or cupboard . . . . fill it with charity shop and other bargains. But enough. But lately I’ve been over whelmed by it […]
This is most certainly a busy time of year for most of us. I took out a rather ancient relative recently – she’s not mobile and struggles getting in and out of cars but we managed a sorti to a local garden centre that we know has very extensive stocks of festive cards, calenders etc. […]
I was helping out a family recently – just looking after their home and dog for a few days until the booked carer returned from a longer than planned sojourn of his own. To help further I cleared a cople of housekeeping chores. You could say my gift to them in this instance was to […]
I was amazed yesterday to see quite so many supermarket delivery vans whizzing about in my area. It’s not that many years since the very first of these started making their way, tentatively around these parts. It’s not as though we’re short of big stores to visit but with so many young families being very […]
Sometimes we get invited to an evening out with friends who just seem to always know what to wear and have an extensive wardrobe. It’s so easy now to order exactly the right combination of dress and jacket or tuxedo and dicky tie. However, in these also enlightened days – not so much store is […]
The tombola stall is one that I can’t stand dealing with when we have social gatherings. It’s not the goods persya but the sort of clientelle that flocks to the tombola and raffle stall do have a bit of a reputation in our village. There are two or three interbred families that are still very […]