Retail & Shopping
Holidays are now as much back in the list of family essentials as they were pre pandemic days. There are adverts flooding in all ver the video channel that I prefer to watch when not working on articles myself. The current saturation subject is the holiday cottage – ranging from some bijoux little shack in […]
Oh golly gosh it does get complicated to try and organise stuf for a snowy norhern light filled cruise expedition. I’ve not done a great deal of travelling to parts other than the usually hot mediterranean, so having to get prpared for a oossibly snow affected trip is a new ball game. I have been […]
Just when the expensive summer holidays have been safely waved away – the thoughts of that lovely sunny villa holiday on the Algarve rapdily fading as the normality of domestic life hits us as we land, instead of crying in our beer, coffee, lemon green tea . . . now is just the right time […]
My word the airports in May were grim. Because the pandemic had caused airlines to revisit how they retained staff during pandemics, many of the cheaper end of the market find themselves without enough staff to do each plane. The airlines accepted furlough cash from the Treasury to offset the cost of paying staff salaries […]
Well after two years of covid restricted life, lockdowns, companies going bust, more people estimated to be at risk than actually happened etc. the country was in no mood for another set of regimented issues. This year when the holiday season started, slightly earlier in February, many families just went berserk with their spending. they […]
There was an occasion not too long ago when I was charged with escorting two granddaughters down into their city centre for the purpose of getting addiitonal items of school uniform and a present for their Dad’s birthday. Apparently this was a much dreaded expedition – the younger lass had been banging on about the […]
I thought I was dreaming a little while ago – living in a nice family house on an executive style estate with a standard sized back garden, I was surprised to hear chickens making that familiar clucking, hiccing sort of noise that chickens do. I didn’t think too much of that at the time, until […]
It can be so difficult in the winter months to generate any interest in shopping and retail therapy of any kind. I tend to stay indoors much of the time and only venture out for a healthy walk a couple of times a week. My mind cannot cope with the rest of me feeling utterly […]
Knowing all the way to shop for gifts, homeware, kitchenware, every kind of ware . . . . At one time we were content to go down to our local high street accepting whatever was in stock and, in our price range. For the longer term purchase such as new lounge suite, then travelling to […]
Holiday booking time is fantastic fun for families who would love to sit amid a pile of glossy travel brochures, all excitedly picking out this hotel or that. Or maybe they are more the adventurous types who like to take the less well beaten path to somewhere ancient and not easy to reach. I used […]