From the category archives:
Good morning! I’m up early and the house is very quiet, so different from back when the children were small, but this feels good. For the most part I feel like I’ve got it right this year; Christmas will be more about family, than the gifts. As I sit here I realise that our house, [...]
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This post is inspired by saving for travel’s post about loving her forever cottage and the treasures in it. A few of my treasures (and the things that survived the de-cluttering!) 1) The Gates. A print that we bought in 2005 on my 40th birthday trip to New York. Central Park was filled with snow and deep saffron [...]
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Well it’s almost here and I’m glad. If you celebrate Christmas, you’re perhaps like me and happy when the day finally arrives and you can actually sit down and spend some time with your family and loved ones. This year we have all three children at home for a few days and we’re going to make the most [...]
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If you follow me or some of my fellow blog friends on Twitter you’ll know that we talk about TV programmes quite a bit; we like watching TV. So instead of a post about why you should save money by cancelling cable and ditching the TV, regular advice on frugal/simple/finance blogs, here’s a lighthearted one that says the opposite 
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I think the first thing that bought it home to me that another child was moving out of the house, for his second year of University, was the lack of shoes on the hall shoe rack. What was as overflowing pile of size 11 trainers, is now a well organised, half empty rack of work [...]
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