We had some ambitious weekend plans – on Saturday we were going to spend most of the day at a kid birthday party our friends were hosting on the other…
Meri, Meri, quite contreri
Month: July 2023
The headings are inspired by our failed house survey, where the surveyor explained that he usually orders his remarks ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’, but in our case…
There is absolutely nothing coming up for sale in the property market that ticks our boxes, which are: I get email digests from some of the property websites and the…
Project House has returned to square one. The surveyor told us the house we wanted to buy was nice, but maybe, possibly, likely cracking in two. It’s taken all this…
An idea that struck me this week was something I heard on the Rest Is History podcast (this episode). They were discussing how different generations react to the previous generation’s…
I went to a networking event for Imperial alumnae last week and had some conversations that felt very zeitgeist-y. A bit like if they made a film twenty or thirty…
Thinking about some of the ways my older son hasn’t yet grasped what is expected in social situations, I had an idea that might help him. And it might help…