Today, the last Saturday before Christmas is normally reserved for either frenzied elbow jabbing in the shops or equally frenzied searching of the house because I can’t remember what I bought or where I hid it. If I’m really out of luck, I do one followed by the other. Not today. Today, the prime weekend […]
Where was the last place you had it?
That, along with ‘just tidy up and you’ll find it’ or ‘retrace your steps’, are what my children hear every time they mournfully tell me that they’ve lost something or, worse, that ‘it’s gone…’. Apparently, among the many other things that mothers are supposed to be is the role of Finder, Rememberer and Keeper, particularly […]
Glasses Versus Contacts: Which Are Better?
There will come the point in everyone’s life where they get told they need their vision correcting, either with glasses or contact lenses. For some people, that will happen sooner than others. According to Statista, over 68% of people in the UK wear glasses, and the Association of British Dispensing Opticians says that over 6% […]
How to future-proof your bathroom for old age
I was recently commissioned by Mobility Plus to give my thoughts on what to think about when you’re planning a bathroom that might be used by older people. Bathrooms are often an afterthought – a joke almost. Somewhere that the unmentionable (giggle) things happen. The loo, the lavvy, the little boys’ room, the cludgee, the john, […]
You want the tooth…
From left the teeth were in apple juice, vinegar, coke, water and milk Things we learned from our dental experiment. No one knows what to do with their children’s baby teeth. That is no one except sister-in-law A (aka Healthandsafety) who suggested we carry out an experiment on ours. What else would you do? Make […]