Sometime in the middle of October I threw this silk top at the daughter to hand (No. 3) and rushed her outside to take some photographs while the weather was amenable to thin top wearing. Unusually foresightful for me, I must have had an inkling that early December would be pulsating with the panic […]

The John Lewis advert that has just popped into my inbox tells me this is Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) when people holiday, loll around indolently at home and turn their backs on shopping. This procrustean renaming of an innocent day seems a bit unjust as firstly, most recipients of John Lewis mail are […]