We stayed at home this weekend. I know, unheard of. Saturday was virtually all sport on the telly. Started at 12.30pm with Everton v Man Utd (come on you Blues!) and P stayed up until 1.30am watching Camillo Villegas and Paul Casey fail to finish the golf in Arizona before the daylight went there ( Read more... )

Last night we both noticed that it seemed to have gone a little cool as the evening progressed. Didn't think to investigate further ( Read more... )

I visited on of my favourite shops this week - Lakeland Limited. This is the kitchenware/household gadget shop that has all sorts of things you didn't know you needed. I reported a while ago that I thought the cafe was crap. It must have been a widely held feeling as the cafe closed about 3 months ago. I hadn't been since to see how they had ( Read more... )

1. I've been bad at responding to your comments. Forgive me ( Read more... )

I was extremely excited last Friday as our new recycling bins arrived. (What? I lead a boring life, what can I say?) It made me wonder how much other places on the planet enforced recycling ( Read more... )

While I was mooching around in the house yesterday I was listening to the radio. There was an article about some bloke who is putting forward the theory that we should all survive by owning only 100 things. Literally 100. As this is never likely to happen to me apart from a house fire I wasn't listening properly ( Read more... )

And people ask me how I fill my time - looking worried that I may just waste away at home on my own ALL DAY ( Read more... )

For the second time in less than a week I have managed to wash a paper tissue in the machine wash. And to make things worse I think they have probably come from sleeves of MY garments, so blame cannot be shared with anyone else ( Read more... )

My cleaning is continuing. I have an extremely low tolerance level for cleaning (which will be no surprise to you at all) but I feel I have to report that the shredder overheated yesterday. I had to leave it for a while and come back... It gives you an idea of the volume of stuff I found that needed dealing with! Today I have to get the ' ( Read more... )

It tells you something about my life that I am actually quite excited about the arrival of new washing machine. But it's true ( Read more... )