This is my entry for today's Mass Observation project. I am slightly concerned that it comes across like a pastiche of the ultimate unknowing middle class parent, and that this is the impression that will echo down the centuries. :/ ( Read more... )

We've officially given up house hunting for the time being, having made the decision to try to improve our finances (The Boy getting a job and me trying to get a new one too) before we start looking again. This house was a factor in that decision: at approx 40-50K more than we can spend, it's the sort of thing I guess we were hoping we'd be able to ( Read more... )