Cleaning your solar panels

My younger sister surprised me with a toilet paper roll holder. I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It wasn't even my birthday. I hope she isn't trying to tell me something... Oh well, I'm just going to consider it a sweet gift, and leave it at that! Here it is: It's nice...

We were having dinner, and I was bored senseless waiting for my seventeen year old daughter to finally clear her plate. But what's a parent to do?! You're supposed to teach your kids to stay at the table until everybody's finished, so I was held hostage by my own parenting etiquette. This meant I was...

Look what I found at the local thrift shop: This great dress only cost me 7 bucks! It has got everything I like in a dress: flowers, it's bright and happy and it's comfortable. The only possible drawback is that my sister, the one who is getting married, thinks it's a bit too loud... What...

I always wear A-line skirts.  Ever since Trinny and Susannah recommended it for pearshaped women in their show What no to wear. A-line skirts skim right over bulges and bumps, and kindly hide them. But my skirts are getting old, and they're not in fashion. Which makes it hard to replace them. So when I...

Because of the current fashion trends I'm not often tempted to buy myself new clothes. But last week I stumbled upon this beautiful green, velvet skirt with pleats. Normally I don't 'do' pleats because they can make you look fat. But these pleats don't! Skirt with elastic waistband = comfortable The skirt has an elastic...

I was wandering through a Walmart lookalike shop, looking for things I didn't know I needed, when this German family crossed my path. The mom only had eyes for the merchandise, so the dad was condemned to the role of Lone Parent. You can look, but please don't touch! As they passed the glassware he...