Choose Your Unfavourite Colour

We all have our favourite colours – the ones on the rack which irresistibly draw our eye, the ones that lift our mood just by looking at them.
But what’s your unfavourite colour – the one you’d crawl across broken glass to avoid wearing?Continue & Comment

Two Ways to Look at Stuff

I’ve always gone for the traditional method of decluttering: subtract the unwanted. Marie Kondo suggests the opposite approach: subtract everything and only add back what you really want to keep.


Have you ever tried that approach? How much of a difference did it (or would it) make, do you think?

Favourite Socks

Have you ever had a favourite pair of socks? What was it about them that made them special – the colour, the texture, the memories attached?
IMG_20150905_112054My current favourite socks are my favourites because I made them myself. Admittedly, they give the impression of badly burned legs, but the point stands: it was I who dunnit.