I’ve been looking to move, and I mean move. Despite intense searching, I haven’t found anywhere; there seems to be a ‘but’ with everything. My present home needs work, and then there are my belongings. I’ve even started looking into auction properties because I want to move back to London, which certainly isn’t the most Read More
Over the summer many places I went, either through a train station, in a shop, or just walking down the street. A beautiful scent captured my thoughts. It was all-powerful, intoxicating, mesmerising, and unforgettable. I just had to find out what it was? I was in olfactory suspense…it wasn’t an obsession per se, but more Read More
There’s not a lot of excitement in the High Street reflecting on my recent visit…shops…many are still shuttered…but hope! A new shop has opened called ‘Beryl’ lord knows why it’s called that but anyway…so I had to go in and take a look unfortunately there was absolutely nothing in my style…at least it’s something new…and Read More
Well not really but non-essential shops open tomorrow!!! Yippee…!!! After this very long wait what can we expect? Well a much reduced high street that’s for sure and big queues initially. Though it will be good to not have to ‘virtual shop’ and visit a shop that sells clothes…and just clothes…wow! That will feel strange Read More
Well a lot has changed since a year ago with my post ‘Survivors’ (click here Survivors… – Philippa Nestie ). Last week marked the one year anniversary of the original lockdown and here we are a year later still sadly locked down but slowly preparing to come out…small baby steps tentatively taken into this ‘Brave Read More
With the road map out of lockdown announced we can look forward to non-essential shops opening from mid-April. Good news but…in the meantime….I had a look around the essential shops and noted the other items they are selling. Unlike Wales and (I’m not sure about Scotland??) in England most other items alongside the essential goods Read More
Not long ago…but now…everything seems ‘frozen in time’, in ‘suspended animation’, waiting…for happier and dare I say ‘normal’ times…the mood is sombre, everyday places appear surreal through their absence of activity. Times are very hard and not much is open…it’s just so grim. So difficult to maintain any positivity but somehow we must try. 2020 Read More
Well thought I’d do an update to the ‘Last time I went to the Charity Shop’…and have to report there really is not a lot going on, I think about 25-30% of the usual shops I use to go to have either not re-opened yet or have shut down for good..which is very bad news Read More
With yesterday’s corona update delivered by the prime minister there are obviously lot’s of questions and concerns with some clarity needed! ‘Confusion’ reigns…but I digress…so as I have not been able to go on my usual round of shops, my mind drifted to some pictures of places I took before the lockdown…does anyone remember that…? Read More
Seems like a very distant memory long ago…(when in fact it was only March before the full lockdown). A different world where you could roam freely and only worry about certain aspects on your daily travel whether it be on public transport, down to the shops or a walk in the park. Now everything is Read More
With all the very bad news, the scary news dare I even say the Cxxxxx virus word? It’s all getting a bit much for me…I just can’t deal with it…Life is becoming like an episode from the 1970’s TV series Survivors (also I think there has been a recent remake?). Anyway with people acting ‘crazy’ Read More
Always wanted to visit New York…I nearly made it over there in the 90’s, but I got ill so the trip had to be unfortunately cancelled and I never got to experience the big apple…dam…I didn’t have the money later on as I was a cash-strapped student, so when I see pictures of New York Read More
So it’s not only High Street shops that are dwindling fast, but markets too. Some are still there but most are not in their original form, diminished, reduced and ‘sanitized’ in a way, at least that is what I am seeing. I know of at least five markets that have been closed and reopened only Read More
As my Charity Shop visit’s after the New Year was so overwhelming I have to follow up with a ‘part two’, namely to mention my total amazing bargain of a full and sealed bottle of Croft Original Sherry, yes obviously somebody did not like their Christmas present and I gained big time! As a Sherry Read More
It was the appealing advert of McDonald’s ‘Millionaire’s Latte’ that drew me in, I never usually frequent McDonald’s but I love latte’s so I thought why not give it a try? The name ‘Millionaire’s’ also got my imagination going, living very close to my ‘version’ of not only Monte Carlo but Las Vegas too, I Read More
With the ever hot weather the Boot sale season is in full swing and I’ve been gadding about ‘Boot fair country’ (I know it’s not a place it just feels like it…) I just love…never knowing what you might come across will it be ‘treasure’ or trash? I certainly don’t go there expecting to unearth a lost Turner, Read More
