I love my new garden gnome!

I'm trying to be frugal, so I'm using our woodburner to keep us warm instead of using the central heating. There's rat in our wood burner! This morning, shivering and feeling like Cinderella on a particularly bad day, I carefully opened the little door of the wood burner to put some logs inside, and create...

'I'm in a hurry to get things done, I rush and rush until life's no one. All I gotta do is live and die, but I'm in a hurry and don't know why.' This song keeps playing in my head. Because I feel rushed all the time. And just like Alabama 'I don't know why'....

For years I let myself be inspired by the hairdo's of pesky little soap stars. You know those little boys who go from baby to toddler, to teenager with a drug habit, and then turn 21. All in two weeks. So for years my boys sported longish hair. But today I looked at the straggly...

  In june 2021 we finally got solar panels. Since it's been a year, and being the housewife that I am, I started to worry: 'Should I clean my solar panels?'  After doing some research I'm glad to report that the answer is:  'No, the rain will take care of it.'  I love rain. 

It's one of those things I want my daughters to know: the importance of keeping track of your monthly cycle. I track mine in my trusty Moleskine. I put a smily face on the day my period starts. Because I don't mind getting my period. In fact I welcome it as an opportunity to take...

Apart from my student days, when I lived in an student flat, I have always had an open plan kitchen. And I'm not even a fan! I mean, why would you wánt people to see you pottering about, trying to create a meal? Not to mention the fact that a week later, people may come...