School shoes. Flipping hate them – hated them when they were on my feet and I hate them even more now I have to pay for them. I know they’re necessary. Children need something to put on their feet, after all. And uniform is a good idea. Black, everywhere. Like my mood as we sit […]
Fun and Simple Ways to Pamper Yourself
We all deserve to be pampered occasionally; every now and then we need some time to ourselves so we can recharge our batteries and start to feel like ourselves again. If you’re feeling a bit burned out after the stresses and excesses of Christmas and New Year, then it’s time to start looking for […]
Why would you want to turn back time?
We’re used to outlandish claims from the beauty industry, and of them making up problems and products to fix them. So many cosmetics companies (or, at least, their marketing chaps) like to suggest that their overpriced unguents will turn back time. Time travel, if you will, to younger days. Like a Tardis, I suppose, in […]
Matcha of the day – the perils of trendy porridge
Show me the Monets
The shame… “Oh no, madam. The Monets are at Kelvingrove, we’ve got Manets, and Degas and lots of other stuff. But if it’s Monets you want, you’ll need to go elsewhere,” the lady with the badge at the Burrell Collection said gently. But her kindness didn’t soften it, Boy Three’s face fell. We were crushed. […]
The life-changing power of a good flask
One year my dad gave me a lovely shiny Thermos for Christmas. It wasn’t very big and it was my first grown-up vacuum flash. It re-launched an interest in hillwalking as, inspired by visions of hot ‘proper’ Feliz Coffee to warm a Munro top, I joined a hillwalking group. Obviously, a hot beverage on a […]
Christmas reflections: the empty grotto
It suddenly struck me yesterday. In Sainsbury’s in Braehead, since you ask. The Thing that had been worrying me this Christmas, and probably many previous ones too. I was in browsing the bog roll as Boy One was at the Saturday Sweep – the regular have-a-go curling session. It’s a new venture (curling not toilet […]