When we travel for holidays, whether to stay in hotels or with family, it is great fun to look around at the locality and compare things like kitchen and living stores. I’ve just come back from a stay in the US. Living Read More
Back in the 1960s this family went to a local secondary school that was brand new – so new that we had to wait for the developers to get off site before the first class could entere the segregated playgrounds. I was Read More
On a visit to a working museum set in an old copper mine complex brought some very unexpected pleasures and experiences. After the obligatory rid on the train down into the bowels of the earth – well a few hundred metres anyway, Read More
When you get invited to someone’s house to carry out a crafting project, there is usually the delightful prospect of home made cake or biscuits to be relished. Joining in with friends in such simple pleasures is a way of being rewarded Read More
There was a gathering of senior ladies in our village the other evening. A veritable group they were too. The function was an twice yearly get together of local village groups belonging to a well known national federation specifically for women. This Read More
Here’s our ultimate guide to the most popular layouts of kitchens today. Essential Work Triangle The three factors of the often described function triangle would be fridge, drain and the variety. Devices could be split up using the traditional designs; in various Read More
There’s a new programme on day time tv that is based on the usual home refurb formula but is geared entirely to kitchens and bathrooms. The premise being that a hapless couple of owner has started to work on one of these Read More
There’s something very relaxing about watching videos of somebody else doing household things like cooking and housekeeping. There are millions of online stores selling everything you could possibly imagine and the online video channels where you can see snippets of all kinds Read More
We all know what we like by way of eating out. Those special times when you just want something that you don’t cook at home for instance. The italian pizza parlour or the chinese restaurant. They’re familiar landmarks on or high street Read More
It always saddens me when the last of the summer’s tomato harvest get taken in. No more popping down to the sunniest spot in the garden to collect the days ‘takings’ and instead, I have the remaining few bunches of very green Read More