Hello and apologies to anyone who tried to read a post last week and couldn’t. The blog was down for 2 days. It’s a long story as to why but a big thank you to Mr F who sweated over his Mac removing numerous files. (He has many websites on
I continue to declutter and that includes pieces of furniture as well as clothes, and I will be packing my suitcase for the cruise this week. Other odds and ends will be discarded as well. I do love the challenge of a good clearout! I’m finding that as I age
Hi I don’t know if this happens elsewhere but here in the Uk whenever the media publishes an article on the older population (as in from 65+) it is usually accompanied by a photo of either a sad old woman looking out of the window or a pair of hands
Hello And a big thank you for the thoughtful comments on my last post, which looked at climate change. I think it’s critically important that we don’t get too depressed about the situation. While there are huge issues to tackle (constant growth, transport including the car and flights, the use
Hello everyone And thank you for the comments re: MrF and the concern you showed. His follow-up clinic was briskly reassuring and we move on from there. Meanwhile, having at the time been Mrs Competence personified 24 hours later I crashed and didn’t sleep well for several days. I too
Hello everyone I see someone suggested I wear better shoes but here’s the thing, I’m not disagreeing, as I’m always on the lookout for shoes, but never seem to buy any. About a month ago I had a whole shop floor of shoes surrounding me whilst looking for a blue
Gail of Is This Mutton has already said that one of the best things about blogging is meeting fellow fashion bloggers and she is so right. Yes, it was last Saturday when we met to look at the Mary Quant exhibition, but we also spent much of the time talking
Hello again I’ve had a busy few days over Easter which was glorious for the UK. We had hot weather, which was lovely. I don’t usually like hot weather mainly because it doesn’t suit me (Sottish genes) and I’m suspicious of the heat anyway (more about that in the next
Hi everyone I’ve bought two more skirts, which aren’t featured here, you’ll see them another time. I am such a skirt person though, and always have been. Jeans/trousers/pants are so not my go-to item of clothing. But for a short time after I retired I wore jeans a lot. I
Hello everyone The beauty business – it’s a strange one. Think how it’s changed over the years. It used to be ‘let’s go down Boots’, after a frothy coffee in that new-fangled coffee bar. And once in Boots, the Chemist, you’d get a Helena Rubenstein lipstick or maybe Elizabeth Arden