Referring to the rain, I said to a fellow Mum at the school gates: “At least the plants needed it though.” And she said, “You know you’re old when you start saying the rain is a good thing because of the plants.” She’s absolutely right of course.
Archive for the ‘Life in general’ Category
Life in general, My garden blog
Life in general
Hypothyroid Disease
I’m writing this blog for everybody else with this disease. I hope it may help; it may not, but I’m guessing it will be quite cathartic for me to finally write about it.
Life in general, Moving and Improving
Life in general, Moving and Improving
The things I have learned since moving to Somerset
Today marks the one year anniversary of when, by the light of my mobile phone, we found the keys under a flowerpot for our new house. Wow! I cannot believe it’s been a year already; but on the other hand, I do feel like a visitor when I go back to Tonbridge; and I do feel I belong here now. I have no regrets about our relocation at all. Here’s a list of a few things I’ve discovered.
Food, Life in general, Moving and Improving, Other things
Paint. (Farrow & Ball, Crown and Focus)
I have reviewed different brands of paint before, but I’ve never used Farrow and Ball paint until recently, and as I also just used Crown paint, I’m going to do another one.
Life in general, Moving and Improving
Alder King estate agents and The Countrywide Group
Life in general, Moving and Improving
Open fire advice
Life in general, Moving and Improving
Life in general
Life in general, Other things, Reviews
Living in Tonbridge
While researching areas to move to, we’ve found little reviews of towns found on the internet were vital – especially when we started looking in Wiltshire and Somerset – places we hardly knew at all. So, now that we are leaving it, here’s my thoughts on Tonbridge; having lived here for 30 years, I feel qualified enough to tell you!

