A virgin garden

If all works out to plan, I will shortly be moving to a house with a virgin garden. I'm looking forward to getting it going and think I have learnt from my past mistakes here. But I'd love to have...

Breaking bones through falling on ice

The BBC and other news programmes are reporting record numbers of broken bones after people have fallen on the ice. Hospitals and emergency services are inundated. I haven't been out much, but just...

Where do you get your writing ideas from?

I always find it hard to answer that question, because they can come from all sorts of areas. Today I wrote an article about dealing with the fear of losing your job. That was because yesterday I was...

How long do you expect a multi-function printer to last?

I only had my last one for a few years and it went wrong. My husband dismantled it and checked it out, unclogging the outlet tube, but it still didn't work. I decided it would cost as much to call in...

What does it take to make you have a good clean up?

I've spent most of the morning vacuuming, and had a good clean up of my office which is in the garage conversion. I've been telling myself to do that for ages but kept putting it off. Later today I'm...