I just got a windfall. No, I don’t have an aged aunt who has bestowed wealth on me in her will. I didn’t even receive any cash. But I felt as giddy as if someone had just given me 1,000 Sterling or Euros (the same these days). The reason: I didn’t, after all, [...]
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Credit crunch tip: Make do & Mend
Posted in Design, Living Home, Musings, tagged credit crunch, mend, wartime thrift on 9 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Time to stock take and stock make
Posted in Living Home, Musings, Work-life balance, tagged chicken stock, frugal meals, making stock, stock taking on 9 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s the time of year when we all navel gaze and dig deep. It’s winter. There’s little on the horizon by way of holidays, warm weather or good news, and we’re probably trying to make sense of our goals for the coming year. We yearn to make 2009 work out better than 2008. We plan [...]
A last-minute present that lasts the year
Posted in Design, Living Home, Musings, tagged last minute Xmas gifts, magazine subscriptions, Maison Cote Sud, Mediterranean interiors on 22 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s finally arrived. A pristine issue of my Dec-Jan issue of Maisons Cote Sud, a French deco magazine. My husband gave me a subscription to the magazine as a present four years ago. All in all, a magazine subscription is the ultimate 11th hour present solution – quick to buy online, no wrapping required. It’s a hardy perennial [...]
Blankets of warmth not snow for Xmas
Posted in Design, Living Home, tagged Add new tag, designer blankets, heirlooms, hip hotels, lambswool, Malta, Malta electricity bills, Melin Tregwynt, Wales, Welsh blankets on 16 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post follows on from my one of yesterday advocating thrift in Xmas present spending. If you don’t have time to rummage around flea markets in the next 9 days, or find that ideal retro bargain on eBay for under £10 (also euro 10 these days too), you are going to have to go for [...]
