Hi everyone I’ve had an extraordinary run of luck with my charity shop finds this month and the last item I bought has to be the bargain of the year. More about that find in a minute. Yes, from just one charity shop (Age UK in Kemptown) I’ve found 5
Hello everyone I began this post on Monday when Brighton had an almost day-long torrential downpour, one of many downpours we had over the last week, but hey, this week the weather has improved and it’s sunnier and warmer now – hurrah! That means this post is a bit out-of-date
Hello again If you thought that the last post I put up was a little thin, apologies, I have been quite distracted these past few weeks. First of all, I took a couple of weeks to write a 3000+ word piece for My Other Blog. New followers I need to
I wasn’t exactly the first in the queue, but just after lunch on Monday I was in my local charity shop and wow, did it feel great to be back. It was also very safe as there was only one other person in the shop apart from the manager, which
Hello everyone There will be more about this at the end of the month but today (Monday 29th March) some of the severe restrictions we’ve been living under since Christmas are being removed, and we can now visit other people and sit in their gardens – three cheers to that! I
It’s mid-March, which is about the time we get very mixed weather here in the UK. Sometimes it’s freezing and when I read of other bloggers who live in the northern hemisphere having temperatures reaching 70F (that’s 21C to us and a warm mid-Summer’s temperature) I just marvel as it’s
Hello everyone This is a short post wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and gosh, don’t we all want that! I am restraining myself and won’t say too much about the circumstances in the UK but the situation isn’t brilliant, what with so many people being told,
Hi everyone And here we are, almost another month gone from this year. Are you finding that the weeks and months pass quickly? I am, and not sure why but the days do tend to blend in and merge together and there have been a couple of times when I
Hello everyone Did you know that last Saturday 10th October was World Mental Health day? Mind, the UK mental health charity, reminds us that mental health problems stretches further than the anxiety and angst a lot of us are feeling at the moment, indeed mental health problems are serious and
Hi everyone Three cheers! I managed to get through September without buying any new clothes, which was so good as, really, over the last few month I have bought far too many new clothes, all online, of course. Some were necessary to accommodate my expanding waist (!) but I did