Crochet Lamp

Slice a lemon in half and leave it sitting onthe draining board before you go away for a day or two. You will return to a scrumptiously fresh  kitchen… The torn pages of a book can be repaired by smearing the tear lightly  with the white of an egg and leaving it to dry… Clean…

Non,  Je Ne Regrette Rien  by Edith Piaf. Continuing with the French theme, mon cheres, this week I am thrilling your eardrums  with  a lovely bit of Edith, who did I think create the perfect music for ironing with- simply divine stuff for wailing along to as you tackle that gruesome pile of shirts and…

I felt the first tingle of Christmas this weekend and such was my fright I went into festive overdrive and anybody observing would have imagined that Christmas Eve had taken me unawares and found me midst of the kind of Mummy madness described in adverts that have many a feminist/male brow a-bristling. Heck yes: this…

So there you are tra-laing through your scrumptious little life, when oops! you carelessly lose your husband. So you wallow and wail and cry. You eat nothing but cucumber for a fortnight and convince yourself that having lost a stone he  is bound to be wowed all over again by your sheer beauty and fall…

Now a lot of people disagree with me on this, but I do not believe that for the most part, books are precious objects. Yes, of course there are books I will always treasure, books I rely on, and books that hold lovely, lovely memories, but I would never, ever keep a paperback I read…