by Jess | Apr 29, 2011 | My life
I hope you’ll indulge me today, dear readers, because I want to tell you a little story – a very small slice of the life of Joan Bentson (nee Staines) – otherwise known as my Granny. To tell her whole life would be the work of years, so today...
by Jess | Dec 25, 2008 | Sustainability, thrift
From my earliest days, I remember this practice of a Christmas morning. We would never rip into presents in gleeful abandon (not having any siblings probably helped with this), but carefully unwrap them, sliding a finger under each piece of sticky-tape and almost...
