At this time of year, many of us look at the clothes, shoes and accessories our friends and peers choose to wear and wonder: when is it time to put away our summer styles? In recent years, the “fashion rules” have become more lenient in respect to when we can wear certain items or colours and still look sharp and presentable; for example, fashion experts now say that we can wear white, without fear of their ridicule, well past Labour Day. However, this does not mean we can throw all rules and common sense out the window. There are basic, and often practical, guidelines we should follow to avoid playing the fool, like so many fashion violators we see everyday at work or school. Continue reading
Author: Melissa Harrison
First Weekend Apart
Four months in and still surrounded by marital bliss, my new husband and I must be apart overnight for this first time. To make matters more pout-inducing, my husband’s trip will consist of not only one night, but two – he will be spending a whole weekend back home helping his father. This personal feature article will explore my actions, feelings and experiences during the first weekend apart from my husband. Continue reading
Eggs Everyway: How to Make Scrambled Eggs
Scrambled eggs: the favourite breakfast of Dick Van Dyke’s character, Robert Petrie, on The Dick Van Dyke Show and the first kind of egg most of us ever tried to prepare. Although scrambled eggs are easy to make, multiply conveniently and take additions well, they are also easy to mess up and make wrong. The following is my personal, fool-proof way to make delicious scrambled eggs. Continue reading
How to: Clean Your Washing Machine and Dryer
As I have previously mentioned, I genuinely enjoy doing the laundry and getting my very own washer and dryer was one of the best days of my life. My parents taught me how to clean a house from top to bottom at an early age; they taught me how to sort the laundry, how to remove stubborn stains and how to use the laundry machines. Unfortunately, they neglected to teach me one important thing: how to clean the laundry machines themselves. To rectify this oversight, I scoured the internet and all of my housekeeping tip books, donned my rubber gloves and learned how to keep those glorious machines clean, fresh and running smoothly. Continue reading