Chance browse around a dress shop – enticed by a nice bracelet in the window which was bought – led to a terrific find. A label called ‘JujuChristine’ with clothes in the ‘boho’ style of beautiful multi pattern fabrics sewn artfully and randomly together. Figure hugging tops and flowing skirts. Coats and jackets too …. [...]
What could be nicer than lugging home a great big bag of fresh grown veg from your village veg Show? Our Village Hall was full to bursting with tables of flowers, veg large and small, cakes and fruit pies, jams and chutneys plus the Tombola, examples of childrens’ work from school, ladies giving out cups of tea [...]
Debut novel ‘Ruby’s Spoon’ by Anna Lawrence Pietroni. A random pick up at the library which proved to be engrossing. Set in the Black Country of the 1930s. Exotic Isa Fly enters the life of 13 year old Ruby. Isa is on a mission to find her sister – to satisfy her dying father’s wish. [...]
Let’s all get rude and get rid of pushy salespeople. Everyone gets that knock on the door from time to time… Jehovah’s Witnesses and energy companies, tree fellers and conservatory suppliers, roof repairers and carpet cleaners …. isn’t it time to get rude? Rider has been known to be very naughty with people intrusive enough [...]
A Parish Council Clerk’s job is often fraught. Due to streetlights being replaced and City Council Contractors dragging their feet, we had no Hanging Baskets last year. This year Councillors and Clerk spent hours on phone and emailing to drive the Contractors to get the lights up. Then ditto to get them painted. With days [...]
Whoops… another pair of socks disappeared into the gap between the washing machine and the wall. Not the first time a sock or a hankie or something vanished before it could be grabbed and either hung up to dry in the utility room, or put into the washer. Rider had devised a solution… not having [...]
This film, directed by Tarsem Singh who is currently directing The Immortals with Mickey Rourke, is one you should watch. Set back in the day in Los Angeles when silent films were getting going, the story is about a little girl with a broken arm and an injured stuntman with a broken heart. The two come [...]
