A lifestyle blog
We recently spent an afternoon at Taste of London as guests of our friends at The Firepod We hadn’t seen them for awhile so we were keen to find out all about what has been happening over the past couple of years with their pizza ovens. If you don’t know about them, do look them up. We have been huge fans of theirs for years (since they were on Kickstarter
I originally wrote this post as a back to school organising post because it went live in August but actually the tips I shared are useful for any time of the year, and particularly in Janaury. For years I have organised our family’s life with an A4, day to a page diary. I cannot begin to imagine how many hours of “what;s happening./ what do I need / where is
I have been increasingly thinking about turning off the outside world because my phone buzzed at 07.18 this morning. Not for the first time, and as before, not my alarm, I had turned that off at 5am when I had finally given up on sleep because my mind was whirring, but by a text. A text that had been sent with a query that needed to be dealt with fairly urgently.
Off the beaten path holiday destinations Exploring new places is something everyone should do in their lifetime. You can learn so much from visiting a new city, country, or continent, not just about the culture, history, or people of that place, but also about yourself. Travelling is rewarding in so many ways. You can gain so much life experience from opening yourself up to new adventures, new foods, new languages,
We are all busy and have busy lives. With family, work commitments, social life, and so on, it can leave very little time for other things. But there is something that you can do that can be a real benefit and add more value to your life, and that is through volunteering and looking for ways to help your local community. There are a lot of things that are
If you know anything about me you will know I love a back story which is why I love Cocochi Candles. With all the gins in my collection I know a bit about either the reason it came to being, or something about the distiller. Products only come to exist because somebody decided to make it happen. It doesn’t matter if that is a gin, a candle, a piece of
4 ways to get more culture in your life I think it’s true that many of us would like to be a little more cultured. We probably read some classics at school, visited the occasional art gallery and maybe watched a black and white French film and tried to figure out what was going on by looking at their facial expressions and for most, that’s where it ends! Being cultured
“What do you mean you don’t have notifications on for emails and only check it a couple of times a day? I am still getting notifications on my phone as they arrive, so why aren’t you?” I was incredulous. The very idea that my husband didn’t get a red dot on his home screen that alerted him to the fact I had sent a message that needed his urgent
7 Day Basket is a recipe book, written by Ian Haste, that might just be a life saver for many busy families. I have always said that I don’t have a problem with cooking every night, I have a problem with the planning of a week’s meals and the buying of the ingredients. I sit down to menu plan, often with a ton of books or my online Thermomix recipe
The White Horse in Dorking sits right in the heart of this picturesque market town, nestled in the Surrey Hills. The drive there was gorgeous, along pretty country lanes, through typically English villages and then down what has been described as one of the best high streets in Britain. As the great Simon Calder once said, if you want to travel you should really start in your own back
How to decorate your home with personalised decor Our homes are often considered reflections of our inner selves. For example, we might end up painting the walls a colour we love, we’ll add garden furniture that we absolutely adore if we spend a lot of time outside, and we might even create custom artwork to add to our interior. There are plenty of different ways to personalise your home
Every year one of Mr B’s oldest friends, Rupe, (met at uni 30 years ago and part of the crowd in this blog post about memories from Germany “old”) hosts “Luke’s Memorial Cricket Match“ a cricket match in memory of his son Luke, who died suddenly a few years ago aged 12. Held on Luke’s birthday it’s a “lads vs dads match” and the day also raises money for