It’s only eight weeks until I make the move I’ve wanted for the last twenty years or more. I’m moving to Cyprus!! I can remember being on holiday with my parents at 18 years old and enquiring at a bank in Ayia Napa if I could borrow to buy an apartment. It’s taken this long but [...]
Hot weather’s arrived in the UK and in Cyprus and my arrangements are suffering here in the UK. It’s fine doing an arrangement and making it look stunning, placing it in the perfect position but it’s disheartening seeing your hard work wilting within a day of its creation.
So what can you do about it?
- Use the [...]
Well we did do Mother’s Day so it’s only fair dads get a look in too!
Though mum may not agree, our fathers have played a priceless part in our growing up too. Whilst mum’s been there to dab the tears and kiss it better, dad’s been there with the stoic advice and protection.
So, do men [...]
OK, whilst I can give you tips and ideas on what to do, there’s nothing like the real thing and I was reminded of that this week when a friend invited me to the flower arranging club she runs at our local church. She’s been arranging flowers as an amateur for years and has become [...]
Rarely a day passes when I don’t see a use of a flower as a gesture of thanks, kindness, love or consolation and many of these pass me by in the great scheme of things. However today I was privy as an observer in the right places at the right times to see just what the [...]
I recently visited an attraction called ‘World of Flowers’ in Devon, near where I used to live. They’d begun their quest about ten years ago carving huge flower beds out of the hillside in the shape of the countries of the world. Then, a few years later, rather than rely on just the flowerbeds for the [...]