Having your dad and his wife come round to stay at your flat can be a mixed affair when you’re a grown up. I’m actually enjoying it this time – we’ve had no major arguments in the first five days. First off, I had to get up with a stonking four day bank holiday weekend […]
It would be tempting to think that having your roof fixed by a burly bunch of roofers at great expense would be a bad thing. Not so, if one is prepared to look for the silver lining of the cloud that will hopefully not be pouring water into your bedroom any longer. It might turn
Small children are impressed by jewellery made from sweets. A classic example is the candy bracelet. This is a nasty piece of thin elastic upon which hollow compressed lumps of sugar and colourings are threaded. The elastic is tied into a hoop, with the coloured lumps resembling jewels along its length. They look like fairy
