Park It In The Driveway
Ah, the pleasure of having a driveway. When you don’t have a front garden, not even a little strip of pebbles or concrete, neighbours and passers-by staring in, a driveway is a dream of heaven. For me and you it is cars whizzing past or parking outside and blocking the light and the view. What…
I Really Must Get My Nails Done
A greeting card for every day, with an ampersand. And not just any ampersand, but one that is sitting there. You can tell it is sitting there because its ample bottom is plonked on the ground. And its foot is out front supporting it. And it is contemplating its nails. Its hand is raised in…
What Is Mothering Sunday
If you were to step back one or two generations, you were likely to hear Mother’s Day called Mothering Sunday. But what is Mothering Sunday? We thing of it as a centuries-old tradition for appreciating mothers. However, that is not in fact who the mother was. The ‘mother’ in question was originally not a family role…