life

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, ...

Recipes for The Good Life ---- from RetiringGracefully 912 days old

I do believe that living well means eating well and luckily I have acquired the perfect cookbook. It contains recipes from the Ivy Restaurant by A.A.Gill. ...

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

[ ... ] PAST life now. We dont want to be rotting in a vast house and garden with children feeling obligated to come and visit. Now WE shall do the ...

Dawn Breaks and My Tooth Aches--- from RetiringGracefully 933 days old

[ ... ] to life in London grew louder, the bridge got busier, and my toothache got worse, so I'm off to the dentist. But you know, I miss the early ...

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

[ ... ] of our life in selling our flat and not looking for anywhere else until the money is in the bank (well actually an internet bank where we can get ...

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

[ ... ] life is too short----Now my 60s retro black polo necks seem a good option --except summer is coming. I am not a jeans and T-shirt sort of ...

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 ...