I don’t know what’s going on with the weather this summer. Up until a week or so ago this was the hottest summer I could remember in a decade. Now though it’s like it’s suddenly autumn. The days are cooler, it’s raining almost every day and the nights – the nights are really cool. I [...]

My husband’s home again this week. He’s on another mandatory temporary layoff from work. He had a layoff week in July and then followed it up with two weeks holiday so all in all he’ll be off for four weeks this summer. If they were all paid weeks off that’d be great, but he’s really [...]

If you read my last post you know that we had to bite the bullet and buy a new car. Well a new used car. I guess we could have waited and gone carless for a while, but with family out of town and my husbands parents getting older (his dad is 82) we feel [...]