Entries from October 2008

Housework the easy way

October 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

At 81 years of age, my grandmother still cleans her kitchen floor every day with a rag, on her hands and knees.  She tells me that by scrubbing it by hand she gets a better clean than she would get with a mop. I don’t deny this is a fact.  My grandmother has a sparkling [...]

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2 crutches and a baking tin

October 14th, 2008 · No Comments

The whole point of being organised is so that not all is lost when something unexpected happens. The beauty of planning and preparedness is that (believe it or not) it gives you a lot of flexibility later.
Case in point: in an act of complete stupidity last week I fell over and landed entirely (and heavily) [...]

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Tags: Budgeting · Cooking · Eating