Making the house cosy for Autumn

Making the house cosy for Autumn

One of my little idiosyncracies is that I’m a bit of a social media addict (always that person who asks for your wifi code when I come to stay), who has tried – and failed – a digital detox on…

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Thirty things I did on Sunday

Thirty things I did on Sunday

As some of you might know, I’m currently pretty much house-bound with a stomach infection. Not nice.  I’ve been really having to force myself to rest, which I’m not very good at, as the Doctor told me that that’s the…

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Slow living

Slow living

Slow living is something that has appealed to me for a long time, particularly since I’ve been listening to the Slow Your Home podcast and learning all about the ‘slow home movement’.  As someone whose brain works at a million…

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A bathroom update

A bathroom update

Our bathroom has been a bugbear of ours ever since we moved in.  With peach walls, more cladding than a Swedish ski lodge, mildew that had grown its own mildew and fixtures and fittings straight out of the 1970s (literally,…

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Busy brain needs a declutter

Busy brain needs a declutter

I wonder if I’ll ever learn to manage my diary better. You’d think I would have learned by now that having plans every night for a week leads to all of the things that generally make me wig out –…

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