How to keep entertained on these long winter nights?  You could write long Norse sagas – and with “Beowulf” in the cinema, your time could have come here – or go for a little low-level entertainment with some cutting and sticking. Now lots of options for what you cut and stick. I’m not advising that you have to go full …
Category archives: Eco
Four wheels good, two feet bad
Time for an outing, and a return to flat-pack world, aka IKEA. Today’s mission: to secure thin shelves and cupboards for our bathroom, so we can order a mirror for the remaining space, and allow O to finish things off. For those without a car, trips to IKEA take on…well, certainly not mythical status, but …
Nota bene
I’m ready for next year. This doesn’t mean I’m doing away with Christmas (although an interesting T2 article on doing without it, and music (it being annual No Music Day today), for a limited period of time, in order to enjoy them more on getting them back). A few years ago, I started my Useful …
Sunday roast
You know the signs. Interest in gardening, cardigans, family history…among the list of signs that you are getting on. (Some of us have liked cardigans for a while, but we won’t dwell on that.) Perhaps one of mine is an interest in a little more tradition for the weekend, or something to mark the fact …
Haystack 101
Another title I planned a while ago, and on a much happier note. I’m no expert, but I’m fond of the odd haystack. Bountiful nature and all that. Going on holiday to the Isle of Jura most summers when I was growing up, a relative there still had a smallholding, and you could see him …