Hey, thanks

Funny thing, this Thanksgiving business. We used to do the good old haughty Brit act, scoff at it all a bit, question the sense in taking a couple of days off work and cooking turkey only to do a very similar thing again a month later, and rather rudely ignore it. But next week we [...]

A room of one’s own

  Our DIY date night actually took us out of the house this week. Kind of. We crossed the thirty or so yards from our house to our guest house, me all the while cursing the giant hay bale that is now our winter ‘lawn’ (the sooner we pull that stuff up for good, the [...]

Notes to self

  1. Fill spice jars. (It’s all very well putting up a new spice rack  – and very smart it looks too, all neat rows of bulbous glass jars from IKEA – but it’s been over a week now and said jars, although very pretty and quite arty in their empty state, are no good [...]

Randy Vanwarmer, anyone?

  An unfortunate side-effect of my job is that it feeds my own little interiors addiction. So when I write about fake grass I want fake grass. When I cover chandeliers I’m online buying one for myself. This week, to tie in with the upcoming cover story, my obsession is with wallpaper. (I reckon it [...]

Dear Abby…

Dear Abby, I have quite an unusual problem. It’s not my husband, or my child, or my colleague at work. It’s my house. You see, Abby, the relationship is just not living up to our (or is it my?) expectations. When we first met, I saw its potential and really thought it could change. I [...]