Your credit score is the same as your credit rating. In essence, it’s a numerical score or value between 0 and 1,000 (although the credit reference agencies’ scales vary). This score tells lenders how much of a risk they’re taking if they lend you money. It also determines what sorts of credit you can get […]
5 Simple Ways to Make Your Kitchen Function Better
Cooking at home is quickly falling by the wayside in favour of eating out or picking up packaged foods. According to the Harvard Business Review, only 15 per cent of Americans said they love to cook, 50 per cent said they actually hate it and 35 per cent are ambivalent about it. If you fall […]
Pumpkin festival at M&D’s – or something to do on a damp day in October
Seriously scary! Obviously stair-rods style rain wasn’t ideal, but in the end, it didn’t make much difference. “Bad weather always looks worse through a window,” said Tom Lehrer (I could have sworn it was Baden Powell or Kipling, but there you go.) So we put our coats on and went to the pumpkin festival at […]
Pumpkins v turnips
Boy One was moaning about the huge effort it was taking to scrape the goopy stuff out of his pumpkin. “You’re lucky you’ve got pumpkins,” said I. “In my day we had turnips and that was a horrible job – it took ages and the turnip stank. The whole job made your arms ache.” I […]
Strategies For Losing Weight & Keeping It Off
Losing weight is a difficult challenge in itself and keeping it off is even harder. You have to be fully committed to staying on track and following a plan of attack if you want to be successful in the long run. The first step is to educate yourself on what you can be doing differently […]
What did you do at the weekend?
Anyone else over 50 find it takes considerable effort to answer this one? A grinding of gears and a cranking look round at the two days of domesticity and idleness peppered by parental duties. “Pretty quiet. Nice, though,” does the job. I suppose no one is really that interested in anyone’s weekend until the answer […]
Hopes for Indian summer fade…
There it was, the first proper weather of the season. Storm Ali romped across the country causing considerable inconvenience. I had to change my plans and catch a bus. Heaven forfend. Boy Two abandoned his bus stop vigil when his hands went numb, and the garden is in more disarray than usual. It wasn’t always […]
Postcards from the hedge
Between the frothy sea edge and the jaunty awning of the cafe, there are people. Hot, flat people in tidy rows. Roasting and snoozing. Close enough to smell them but shut my eyes and I’m all alone. That’s when the idea struck me. Too lizardy idle to take a photo, could I just think about […]