Dinner time. It was a favourite part of my day when I was growing up.
At 6pm every workday evening, a ‘supper-time symphony’ would occur in my family home. Dad would walk through the front door, Mum would sing out “up to the table”, and my brother and I would race each other furiously to our chairs. Continue reading
“Blessed are they who have the gift of friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts” ~ Thomas Hughes
I can’t quite believe it, but my daughter turned eight last week. When she was born everyone said “time will go so quickly, don’t forget to enjoy her”. They weren’t wrong. It just feels like yesterday I was stroking her precious cheeks, in teary awe at the beautiful creation before me.
At Christmastime in 1917, a speciality store in Kansas City, U.S.A. ran out of red, white, green, and holly embellished tissue sheets (sold as gift wrap).
The owners of the store were brothers, J.C. and Rollie Hall who improvised by bringing in French decorative ‘envelope lining paper’ from the manufacturing plant of their greeting cards. It sold out so quickly they decided to produce their own sheets, and this marked the beginning of the modern-day gift wrap industry.
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