I’ve done it, I’ve cleared my overdraft. A bit of prudent cash only budgeting and some saving of windfalls and back payments but I’m clear. I am in the black on my current account. I’ve written before about how I hate my overdraft but even now I’m wondering if I can manage without it and [...]
Another debt bites the dust
This is a follow up from my post at the beginning of the year when I completed paying back my mum. This week I made the final payment to clear a credit card and it feels good. I’ll confess that my budgets have been a little wayward the last few months, I started well with transferring [...]
Tidying for world peace ~ Art Deco style bedroom revamp
I’ve been spring cleaning – well more spring re-organising and wanted to share what I’ve achieved with my bedroom revamp. At the beginning of the year I had a rather half hearted attempt at the January Cure that was running on the Apartment Therapy blog, I managed about three weeks of it before getting distracted, [...]
The treacherous whisperings of our hearts
I love words but I still believe that what someone does as much, if not more, than what they say is how they should be judged. Actions speak louder than words. Today I’m pondering how we internalise other people’s actions towards us, how we take on board their decisions as being our right or our [...]
Self esteem; its a tricky bugger
*taps computer screen* Helloo! Anyone there? Ah right yes, now, so, its been a bit quiet here recently. It isn’t that I’ve not got lots to say, I do, its just that I’ve been feeling rather fragile and a consequence of that is that I’ve not got confidence in my voice. One of the recurring [...]
Tax refund phishing scam
On Friday I received the email below that claimed to offer me a tax refund if I downloaded the attachment, it looked plausible enough but I was worried that it might be a tax refund phishing email. I’m always a bit wary of downloads in unexpected emails and there were a few things in this [...]
Style icons ~ my mum
My earliest style icon must have been my mum. I look like my mum, its no bad thing. She tells a story that when she was living in Zambia in the 1960′s someone called her “Twiggy” at a dinner party, mum, not being too up to date with popular culture, thought the gentleman terribly rude [...]
My feminist life
I like to tell people that I’ve been a feminist for 30 years, it is more or less that amount of time but it also serves to remind that feminism is an active engagement over time rather than just a handy label. My introduction to feminism came via my friend Emily when I was about [...]
Spring style
I’m having a bit of a spring style crisis. I want a revamp but as ever I’ve the taste for Vogue but the budget for make do and mend, so I went back to the fabric stash and pattern collection and had a look at what I could use up. I’ve a collection of [...]
