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Lights Out 29 Jul 2013 | 04:05 pm
For the past eight-and-a-half years I've been used to living with a street light practically in my garden. In Wickford the street light really was in our front garden (though I believe technically th...
Surprisingly Successful Thrifting 22 Jul 2013 | 04:43 pm
Normally when I set off to have a hunt through the local charity shops, I don't go with finding anything specific in mind - 'cos that would really be pushing the 'luck of the thrift hunt' just a leetl...
My Shorts Are Nearly Old Enough to Vote 17 Jul 2013 | 11:36 pm
Yup, I'm wearing a pair of shorts that I worked out are nearly old enough to vote. I remember buying them in the Ann Harvey shop in Nottingham in the summer of 1996 - which makes them 17 years old. ...
Yay, Finally - The Continuing Saga of the Search for White Trousers 2 Jul 2013 | 04:28 pm
Well, the jeggings from M&S turned out not to be such a good idea. I looked like a cross between Max Wall and Humpty Dumpty plus, as they were a tad too short as well, my swollen ankles were prominen...
Reduced to Buying Retail 25 Jun 2013 | 03:23 pm
I've had a real yen for some white summer trousers ever since I stupidly put a pair back in a local charity shop, realised my mistake once I'd got home, went back a couple of days later and - they wer...
Alone Again, Naturally 18 Jun 2013 | 09:50 pm
After the most wonderful two weeks together poor old P has had to return to Hong Kong - he didn't want to go and I most certainly didn't want him to go - but what can you do when that...
Six Months is Too Long 9 Jun 2013 | 03:40 pm
Finally, after six incredibly loooong months, P is home for two weeks leave. We're halfway through those two weeks but we've managed to pack in an awful lot during the past week (and have much more pl...
Shopping Ad Nauseum 29 May 2013 | 12:04 am
During the nine years I was living in Essex, Bristol garnered itself another mega shopping mall - Cabot Circus. To build it a lot of the 1950's monstrosity that was Broadmead was demolished and this p...
Mum's Birthday Present 23 May 2013 | 06:44 pm
It may be a tad unconventional, but what Mum really wanted for her 80th birthday present was a bit of a makeover to her front garden. The bed in front of her living room window had become totally chok...
Second-hand But New 16 May 2013 | 08:13 pm
A couple of weeks ago - when the weather seemed a lot more promising that it is now - I got my summer clothes out of their storage box. When I'd hung them up in the wardrobe I realised that...
