The Soaplady

 
These days, I aim to buy no packaging at all for my mail-order business …
This has been the case for the past three years …
All my packaging is recycled, and I can confirm that my customers don’t mind getting their soap enclosed in a clean Felix cat-food packet, or a re-mastered cardboard box … (well [...]

Hello everyone … :- )
I am writing this blog in a ridiculous position from a very low chair, giving myself a back-ache and arm strain … Why …?!
Because the cat is on my ergonomic office chair, that’s why …
(Note to self: I have just turned 51 years old, and I am not even the mistress [...]

 
I made my usual visit to Callanish Post Office this morning …
What I found did not uplift me …
Apparently the Callanish Visitor Centre at the Standing Stones site is in the process of applying to open on Sunday. There is also talk of a liquor license being applied for too.
 
In the Post Office, there has [...]

Yes, you guessed, the ‘come-and-get-me’ sign is on the door again, and I just thought I’d do a bit of an update, and post some pics, so you don’t think I’m just a ranting creature all the time … :- )
 
I have my friends Yvonne and Ian staying with me at the moment (got my [...]

I found myself listening to Nick Griffin this morning (for the uninitiated, the leader of the British National Party). I didn’t seek him out, he was just on the Radio this morning as I was working, and seeing him in my minds eye as not being uncomfortable (as I would) in the company of Eugene [...]

It has been such a lovely weekend … Warm, relaxing and sunny, all was well with the world …
little white lambies pronking about in the fields again, reminding us all that time goes on and comes around reliably, again and again …
I did a little dance with Mindy this morning even, when I came downstairs [...]

 
Now if this opportunity had been around when I was looking to move to the isles, I’d’ve snapped their arm off …!
Margo the Post-Mistress of the Callanish PO has her house and business on the market at the moment: here’s the house:

It’s a beautiful house in the main part of Callanish, just two minutes from [...]

I don’t think I’ve ever been as glad to spend christmas at home, here in Breasclete, as I am this year …
My absence at family celebrations on the mainland was the result of a decision taken way before the weather became cold and the snow started to fall - more due to extraneous factors, and [...]

 
Well, it’s a lovely crisp fresh sunny day here in Breasclete, although the temperature is definitely cold, and the roads were suicidally icy this morning when Mindy and I went for our walk around Callanish …
 
I desperately feel that I should be doing something ‘outside-ish’, like hanging out the washing, or closing down the garden [...]

 
My mum was the eldest daughter of a well-to-do family in Grimsby.
At the age of 15, she took up a scholarship to the local Grammar school, on the basis of her own talents. This was a big deal in those days …
Having finished secondary education, she then sublimated her own future within the future which [...]