The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

Spring makes everything look filthy.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.