A lifestyle blog
#OnScreenOffices This is a collaborative piece I remember when I first heard that Lord Sugar’s office on the Apprentice isn’t his actual office and feeling as though I had been somehow massively ripped off. Not that I actually watch The Apprentice mind you, but I have seen enough trailers to know he has a secretary who sits outside in an ante-room and says “Lord Sugar will see you now”.
How Technology Can Help with Parenting This is a collaborative feature Technology has a reputation for damaging parents’ relationships with their children due to children being constantly distracted by televisions, tablets, and phones. We worry that their devices and games are having a negative effect on their ability to concentrate and communicate with us. However, have we really considered the benefits of technology when it comes to parenting? Smart Homes
This is the gin kit for you if you have ever wanted to make your own gin but haven’t known where to start. Making gin is easy, you just put juniper berries in vodka, right? Wrong. That’s like saying you can make decent wine by adding a grain of yeast to a bottle of grape juice. You can’t. Don’t ask how I know, but suffice to say you don’t live
How to start living for you Collaboration When you’re a mum, it’s easy to find yourself wrapped up in mum life. And while that’s absolutely perfect, and you’re likely to find that you’re an amazing mother because of it, you could also lose a bit of yourself in the process. Because you are a you, as well as a mum. And it’s important to make sure that you’re making
Thinking of visiting Iceland? These are my top tips if you are visiting the east coast of Iceland anytime soon This is my second post detailing our stay in Iceland. Part one is here: West coast of Iceland, in and around Husafell and covers days one to three. Day four and we left Husafell with heavy hearts and headed to our next hotel, on the east coast of Iceland for
The first of our travel diaries from Iceland. This first one is of our first few days in Iceland when we were on the west coast, staying at Hotel Husafell. Lots of people have asked me where we stayed, the names of the places we saw, and generally what we got up to during our recent week in Iceland. So what better way than to post our diary! Trouble was
This is waffling but I have just been to an Elevate event and I am feeling a bit philosophical. You know I love a window, right? So much so that I did a whole load of blog posts called Window Wednesday because I wanted to share my love of windows. How they frame a picture beyond. Allow you to be drawn to them whilst in the room. Or just blow
I binge watch a lot of TV. I can no longer be bothered to watch a TV programme and then have to wait a week for the next one (current cases in point: Baptiste and Mother, Father, Son. Watched one of each and promptly forgot about them and when the next one came on I had forgotten half the plot) so I tend to binge a whole series in
We need to send more thank you gifts THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE PIECE Don’t you think? Don’t you think that sending thank you gifts is something we just don’t do enough? Or RGFNPR as Mr B and I call them: random gifts for no particular reason. Something that just says “I was thinking of you”. Twice this week I have wanted to thank people properly though because they have
Planning a couple’s holiday after the kids have left home THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE FEATURE It sort of crept up on us really. There was no big fanfare. No countdown. Nobody saying out loud “you do know that you can now go on holiday outside of term time, and in fact you can leave the kids behind, don’t you?”. But this is the situation we now find ourselves in.
What is a christening and is it still relevant? This is a collaborative feature There is no denying that the number of christenings performed each year has been steadily in decline for the past few years. Latest figures suggest that it is only 1 in 10 infants are christened, but why is that? Well it could be because numbers attending church have also been on the decline,
3 top tips to increase the kerb appeal of your house This is a collaborative feature. You know about kerb appeal, right? How attractive your home is the second a potential buyer sees it from outside, before they have even got out of the car. Some studies suggest that a property increasing a property’s kerb appeal can increase the asking price by up to 25%. Poor kerb appeal,