So, a new year. Hoping for good things. As of 6 pm UK time today (Sunday) I’m officially retired. Anyway, I was thinking about what to do with a first-of-the-year post and decided I didn’t feel the least like looking… Continue Reading
I thought about doing this tomorrow, and then later today. But we are all in different time zones and, to mess with Robert Frost, “I’ve got things to do and promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep”.… Continue Reading
Hannukah finished last week (see pic of last day candles below). It’s the last week before Christmas. So far, work has been decent but not mad. But I looked back at late December 2022 and for unknown reasons there were… Continue Reading
In places where it gets cold and snows I expect green, sappy, spring-ish fragrances are very welcome during autumn into winter. Well, here – where the road into the village just flooded for the fifth or sixth time this rainy… Continue Reading
Happy December? It’s been very cold here – like unusually – for the past few days. But we’re back to milder and wetter mid-week. I don’t have much today. I am waiting for a sample order and am now into… Continue Reading
Yes, really. I like Victoria Beckham and what she’s done with herself. Not your usual celebrity makeover. She wasn’t my fave Spice Girl (actually, I don’t have a favourite Spice Girl). But she seemed more in the background that Sporty,… Continue Reading
We’re talking paying for perfume today. I love perfume. I know we all do. We wouldn’t be faffing around here if we didn’t. But, in maybe the last year I’ve become a lot more aware of how some things that… Continue Reading