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More cold wet water--- from RetiringGracefully 565 days old

I am sure Cornish rain is wetter than anywhere else!- it pelts down in big silvery baubles, slushing down the back of your neck, penetrating scarves, ...

I thought my Grass would be Greener--- from RetiringGracefully 918 days old

I hoped the grass would be greener once i was no longer employed, and, yes, thank goodness, it is! As it happens, I used to have the most beautiful lawn,(I ...

Scraggy Skin and Knobbly Knees---- from RetiringGracefully 940 days old

I've just noticed that my skin is different to how it used to be--it kind of falls in folds around my stomach a bit - I lost a bit of weight last year ...

The Art of Enjoying a Private View--- from RetiringGracefully 948 days old

Retiring, as we are,gracefully,we went to a private view of"Unknown Monet"at the Royal Academy last evening. We stood with half of Middle England, queueing ...

Tea leaves, Ironing, and Feeling a bit Flat--- from RetiringGracefully 950 days old

I sit looking at the old tea caddy decorated with an ancient scratched coronation picture. I am at Mrs B's with the last ever batch of ironing. She is ...

On friends and relations--- from RetiringGracefully 953 days old

We are slightly in a mid-life crisis, with aging parents hundreds of miles away, living in a big house with a huge garden and refusing absolutely to ...

One small step for me--never mind mankind-- from RetiringGracefully 954 days old

Today I cracked Fiendish Soduko in under half-an-hour! This is a record for me -- I have been addicted to Soduko ever since its introduction onto the ...

Things that go bump in the day--- from RetiringGracefully 955 days old

Living in a small space makes complete sense. We have cut our overheads dramatically, (and boy, did we need to!) but it needs care and consideration ...

Middle-aged Spread--(and we're not talking Flora here!) from RetiringGracefully 956 days old

Try as we may,our waist-lines seem to have expanded far too easily in the last few months.With summer slowly approaching it seems like a good time to ...

Country squire or City slicker? (Neither actually) from RetiringGracefully 957 days old

To Gloucestershire for the weekend, staying in a beautiful old farmhouse surrounded by fields of sheep, cows, and millions of daffodils in shaded dells, ...