Homes and gardens… and a very naughty little rescue cat called Thomas! Founder #InstaHomesofWales 🏴
If you’ve been keeping up with my blog, you’ll know that during my childhood in the 70’s and 80’s, my parents grasped all the modern ways they could afford. This included what we then called technology but what we now call ancient! The ultra modern Trimphone! First of all there was a telephone. Not just … Continue reading Technology, it’s all relative
If you could build your dream house in the next 7 days, what would it look like? Good question eh? This is something I think about... probably a little too regularly! When I chat with friends, I sometimes bring up this subject and I absolutely love that everyone has a completely different idea. Some want … Continue reading If I could build my dream house….
Garden goals It’s that time of the year when I think I’m proud of my garden and then I look at Instagram... Blimey, there are some seriously impressive green spaces out there and the irony is that that some of them are not actually very green. I am green with envy!We have a small garden, … Continue reading How Green is your Garden?
I absolutely love old industrial style objects. I love looking at things and working out how to use them differently or display them. Last month I spent weeks working out what I could use as plant pots -something that would fit in my milk bottle holder. I looked around the house, around the office, around … Continue reading Repurpose and reuse
Joining Instagram back in 2017 was mostly for a bit of personal entertainment but I very quickly got sucked in - it was like a huge vortex of beautiful interiors. After a while I linked it to my Facebook and Twitter accounts and sometime after that I realised that most of my friends and family … Continue reading Instagram. Love it or hate it?
When did my obsession with the colour white start? I can specifically date this back to the first time I watched John Lennon at his white piano in the ‘video’ – a word not used much these days - to promote Imagine. Amazing words, amazing melody but those white walls! - The white walls! The … Continue reading White
Yes, I love chocolate. Not sweet, sugary chocolate, not boxes of chocolates (a nut intolerance makes them very dull indeed – Himself gets sole rights to any boxes gifted to us) but rich, chocolatey, chocolate! Some would say I get this from my Grandmother who absolutely loved dark chocolate but I think it’s a joint … Continue reading Chocolate, my other passion
As a small business owner myself this is always a tough one. I absolutely love the theory of supporting small business but, like all of you, I have a budget and the big bad chain store (quoting my fav film - give yourself a gold star if you can work it out) is usually more … Continue reading Buying homewares – Should I shop big or shop small?
When I was small we had a kitchen table (it was probably Formica) and everything food based and otherwise happened around it - apart from the Saturday night takeaway which was based on the standard 1970’s teak coffee table in the living room, in front of The Generation Game (Shut that door!). As I became … Continue reading Open Plan Living
I was brought up by a Mum and Dad who both had their feet firmly on the ground, at a time when 2020 sounded positively space age! Mum and Dad embraced all the 1970’s and 80’s had to offer – home ownership, car ownership, annual holidays in Spain and general convenience in almost all aspects … Continue reading Environment or economics? How should we shop in the 21st century?
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