Hi everyone Moving home in the UK can be very stressful as it was for us, and it had quite an impact on my physical self and I shall be talking about that in my next post (not to worry,
A glimpse of our streamlined and de-cluttered apartment



Hi everyone Moving home in the UK can be very stressful as it was for us, and it had quite an impact on my physical self and I shall be talking about that in my next post (not to worry,

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
An update on my pledge to not buy new, I’ve bought my one annual pair of new shoes, but they’re not Doc Martens. They’re flat and comfortable brogues with a hint of wackiness as they’re silver in colour. Not only

I haven’t always been this tidy. But a small flat makes you put away stuff quick. At this point in my life I don’t leave things lying around as there aren’t any spare rooms for things to be just dumped.

I’ve had another purge of my wardrobe. I decluttered a great many things before I moved in to this little flat, and not just clothes, but kitchen equipment, books, ornaments and pictures. Why is this item here, I asked? Do

Did you have a good Christmas? I did, but gosh, if you think I look a bit tired in the pics below, I don’t mind admitting that cooking and hosting the Christmas feast is a tad fatiguing – plus I’m

As most of you know I’m down-sizing big-time to a flat (or apartment, as they say over the pond). It will have 2-bedrooms, a living area and a small kitchen and bathroom. And no garden. I’m ready for this. I

I used to hang on to clothes that I didn’t wear, especially if they had been expensive to buy. ‘Oh, no, I couldn’t possibly throw that out’, I’d say, ‘as it cost x, and, you know, it would be such
I haven’t made any New Year resolutions yet, although I have some aims: to exercise and write more. I might tell you about these and other goals for 2015 in another post. But I just have to tell you about
I’m better now than before, but it was quite fluey (the bug we had) so I’m not going out to a New Year’s Eve party. Yes, still not quite myself, a bit post-viral and the stye is better but lingering,