Dr. Beckmann Colour & Dirt Collector Sheets
So school approaches – and with it the dreaded return of the laundry pile. I love the summer months, with its limited washing of shorts and tees – yes, even in the ‘summer’ we can expect in good ole Blighty. The trouble is – I’m a lazy laundress. I am. I’ll separate whites and coloured. Mostly. But term time the uniform all gets bunged in together – grey trousers, red jumpers and white...
Thinking Slimmer – 1 week in.
So a week ago, I started listening to the Slimpod for under ten minutes a day. I didn’t diet. I didn’t make any conscious changes to what I was doing. I didn’t set out to starve myself of all things delicious in my usual I’m-Losing-Weight-Now fashion. I DID notice changes. Differences in my relationship with food. Changes in my food choices. Differences in my eating habits. Today I stepped on the scales. I had...
Spotted! A sign for my kitchen.
Fabulous sign from the the Fabulous The Contemporary Home. That is all.
Dr Beckmanns’ service-It
Dullness, I know. Washing. Machine. Cleaner. But don’t you get all sniffy yet. Because I was all sniffy – till I used it. And now my washing machine sparkles inside. more importantly my clothes smell better – and are definitely cleaning better. You know that bad smell you get when you leave the door closed on your machine? That’s from the bacteria build up in your pipes and oojamaflips inside the machine, where...
50 Books Every Child Should Read
You know how sometimes, you read something that makes you want to talk about it? Yesterday, I received one of those mails. It was just a newsletter, from one of my favourite Secondhand Booksellers, AbeBooks. By the time I made it to the end, I was buzzing. This is a very clipped part of the article, reproduced with kind permission from Richard Davies of AbeBooks – you can see the original article here. “Reading should be...