essentials

Family holidays – at large without a capsule wardrobe

June 26, 2012 By Ellen

Pan-icking about our holiday Was a time when my holiday packing might have resembled something from a magazine. You know – the top that goes from beach to bar and you tart it up by knotting your sarong in a different way and using your sunglasses as a necklace, or something. Once, in 45 years have […]

What are your daily essentials?

January 7, 2011 By Ellen

We all know we’re supposed to have five portions of fruit and veg every day. Most of us don’t and manage to mosey along without too much difficulty. I wrote a post yesterday for Ready for Ten about the prospect of libraries closing and how tragic that will be for our children – and their […]