Category: Monthly Musing

“This makes me feel very grown-up!” Not so small daughter and I were sitting at the kitchen table setting up a SIPP (self-invested personal pension) in her name.  Still at university, she did take...

I’ve got a day to myself today as my husband has gone to visit not so small daughter in her university city.  I waved him off at the station this morning, and in a...

I bought some fabric to make myself a t-shirt today.  I’ve been thinking about it for a while as I have a t-shirt that I really love to wear, but I’ve never seen the...

It’s the last day of December, and I’ve spent this week getting our house ready as my cousin is coming to visit us all the way from Canada on Friday. I’ve been decluttering and...

“Did you carve pumpkins when you were a child?” I went to see my osteopath this week and we got chatting about Hallowe’en.  She asked me about pumpkins, and I explained that when I was...

Sometimes, when I’m out with the dog, I imagine what it would be like if I had never seen where we are walking before. I don’t just mean the area or the particular path...