Great New Bonus Credit Crunch Diet!

I remember once reading an article about cheat ways to diet. One suggestion was to turn the central heating down a few degress so that the body would have to work harder to keep warm and so burn more calories.

I can confirm it works. Due to a “catastrophic” leak in our plumbing I’ve had no [...]

Cider making in the West Country

Recently, with the world as we know it apparently crashing around our ears, I said to my husband “I think everyone just needs to calm down and concentrate on the basics”. “There’s the voice of the housewife,” he replied.

I don’t really understand any of the complex economics but I do think that we have lived [...]

Fat cats and fat people

Our media is swamped with doomsday reports of how we are plunging into a world of tightening our belts. I was at the supermarket this morning and decided this might not be a bad thing. You only have to look around and see how fat we are as a nation to realise we have had [...]