“Will you pop up to the shop for me Babs?”
I was fourteen, my mum had run out of something that she needed in order to cook our evening meal.  The shop was about 200 yards up the road, and we constantly shopped there for items that mum had ‘run out of’ throughout the week.  She [...]

You could be forgiven if you find this hard to believe – I do!. As Victor Meldrew would say, **I don’t believe it!**  For those of you who are not familiar with the British sit com ‘One Foot in the Grave’ check the link for a small clip of the catchphrase.
Just two days after the [...]

Our cat door/flap has been looking a bit fragile lately, and today it finally broke.
Replacing a cat door is a simple enough thing, you would think. You’d be wrong to think that when it’s our cat flap!  It went like this.
2pm.
Mo: “Babs, help me mark where the screws go for this new cat flap.”
Babs: (going [...]