I just realised that I hadn’t shown you my new passion - using outdoor rugs inside!! This is the new one that I just put down in the kitchen. Now, I know rugs in a kitchen and under a dining table are entirely impractical, due to the dropped food, spilled cooking stuff etc, BUT a rug under the table always LOOKS so nice! There is actually a practical element too - especially in this rented kitchen where the old Victorian floorboards have big gaps in them - the rug works as insulation and first thing in the morning, it feels so much warmer underfoot when you’re walking around with bare feet. So the thing of wonder about outdoor rugs is that some bright spark somewhere made them entirely synthetic, water resistant, stain repellant AND usually much cheaper than an ordinary rug of the same size. But lots of them actually feel and look like an ordinary rug. For example, last week, my 12 year old boy had been horrified to find that the only fruit I had in the fridge was a poncy pomegranate (...