Fandango’s Flashback Friday 22 August 2025

From this week in 2013, a piece about the gift of giving – or, more accurately, the giving of gifts. As time goes by We were mulling over recently what present to buy for our daughter’s eighth wedding anniversary. Seeking inspiration, not to mention enlightenment and authoritative knowledge, naturally we looked online. At anniversariesbyyear.com (yes…

Lucky me

Today is my 40th wedding anniversary. So how appropriate that ‘365 Days of Writing Prompts’ should come up, on this particular date, with an invitation to “Describe what it feels like to…see a stunning piece of art”. I’m afraid I couldn’t even begin to describe what it feels like to see this stunning masterpiece of nature…

Me and my Guccis

Or should that be “My Guccis and I”? Whatever. “These boots were made for walkin’. Tell us about your favourite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.” Over the years, I’ve worn through a fair number of pairs of shoes. I can still remember some, so I suppose I must have been quite fond of…

Fandango’ Flashback Friday As time goes by

We were mulling over recently what present to buy for our darling daughter’s eighth wedding anniversary. Seeking inspiration, not to mention enlightenment and authoritative knowledge, naturally we looked online. At anniversariesbyyear.com (yes of course there’s a web-site for it) we discovered a list of ‘wedding anniversaries gifts and ideas by year’, both traditional and modern.…