A work Christmas catch-up by Google Meet is about as good as it’s got this year for partying, but I wore a silly dress for the camera anyway, albeit with cardigan…
Just at the point at which we were finally about to burn our way through the last of this lot (and others), some more candles from the endless supply that…
You’ve seen this pattern before – and now the family heirloom Noritake ‘Dominica’ dinner service, our ‘Christmas set’ since time immemorial (in my lifetime, anyway), is all mine. All of it,…
Latest visit to my parents brought two summer skirts – one navy linen, the other black cotton, both mid-calf and very plain, too boring to even bother photographing – plus two striped…
Never like to turn down some interesting fabric, and while I have no particular plans for these three swaths, all with a sort-of midcentury pattern or feel, I suppose they…
As y’all know, I like a piece of pottery with an interesting glaze, and I do like a jug; but given the constraints of my own kitchen space, I now…
Not a find as such, but I’d been wondering what to do with my collection of Pony Club rosettes amassed many, many years ago – couldn’t quite bring myself to…
Did I say I had resisted the urge to bring home plant pots found on the street? Well, that resolution didn’t last long. I’ve dragged home a few terracotta pots…
What with this virus circulating, I am feeling rather wary of picking things up in the street. Last night I nearly brought home a pair of dark grey containers dumped…
Well, there’s not been a lot of opportunity for Usual Shopping lately, obviously, but I was reminded – whilst deleting a load of photos on my phone – of a…
