Finding the chase and cutting to it

I don’t normally use capitals in titles, this isn’t a tabloid newspaper, after all, but proper nouns need that distinction… Eh? What? The Micawber Principle is this: expenditure less than income gives happiness, expenditure greater than income is penurary, as per https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Micawber_principle. This is a universal truth no matter religion, upbringing or income. Living within […]

fish are jumping and the cotton is high… Not so easy for some! It was my husband’s turn to do the weekly shopping and I think he went shopping hungry – big mistake, big supermarket bill just for two people! We have very little food waste.  But that is largely as we both take account […]

I think it’s very easy to see EPC, or energy performance certificates to the uninitiated, as being theoretical ideals and bearing no relationship to the real world. But over the 20 years they have been around, they have improved the estimates no end. As a nation, we understand that our winters are cold (and damp) […]

Eh? Few things in life are as good as enjoying time with friends, catching up on what’s been going on, and getting to enjoy the world going by your back garden. Oh, yeah? Yes. It’s well known that humans are gregarious and after the past couple of years, it’s great when old traditions start up […]