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5 Simple Ways to Create a Happy Home Environment Our home environment is where we spend most of our time and therefore can have a significant impact on our mood. Whether you live alone, with a partner, or with a family, finding ways to create a happy home environment, is essential. Here are five simple ways to make your home one that lifts your mood every day. Display sentimental items
Have you heard about the Hello Fresh Recipe MatchMaker Ad — Feature If you are anything like me then you will regularly get to 5pm and think “shoot I haven’t thought what to have for dinner tonight and people will expect food in half an hour”. This will probably then be followed by a mad dash to the fridge, which you will open and stare into in the vain
Park Spa Warbrook House A couple of weeks ago I was asked if I would like to review the newly opened spa at Warbrook House, a local luxury hotel. It did occur to me that we didn’t really have any spare time in the next couple of weeks which, the more I thought about it, made me realise we should absolutely make the time to do it. Spending time
Simple tips that will instantly improve your family finances Ad — Feature These are challenging times. The world is creeping slowly out of a financial crisis, while domestically, the debate about what is going to happen with the UK exits the EU at the end of March is still generating no end of questions but not so many answers. Whichever side of that particular debate you might stand on, there
Caroline Hirons organised my face Not even joking. ACTUAL Caroline “possibly the most influential skincare blogger in the Western Hemisphere” (according to NewBeauty Magazine this month) Hirons has sorted out my face. Okay so maybe right now I do have a spot the size of a small Mediterranean Island on my chin but I see that as proof that what I have been doing to my face, thanks to
It may surprise you to know that the very idea of going to the cinema alone fills me with abject horror. Buy a ticket for one and sit by myself?! I might as well just get a sandwich board with “I HAVE NO FRIENDS” plastered on it and stand in the multi screen car park, surely? Apparently not. I spotted an article in Stylist magazine being shared online yesterday
Everyone seems to have just got back from Iceland recently, or are planning a trip to Iceland. Mr B and I currently fall into the latter group as we are planning a trip to Iceland next month, and so for the past few months I have been reading up on what to do / where to go / what we need. All of it useful info that I thought
Top tips for making the best cup of coffee It will come as no surprise to regular readers to find me talking about coffee on this blog, I do it fairly regularly (though I do admit that I drink it less often, I leave that to Mr B). We regularly attend the London Coffee Festival, and are the proud owners of a rather fancy coffee machine called the Dual
Have you heard about Treat Trunk? I don’t know about you but this is the time of year that I think “If I see another piece of chocolate I am going to heave”. What is it about Christmas that means we feel we are neglecting our family if we don’t have 17 different boxes of chocolates or chocolatey snacks on the coffee table? Or a whole basket full of crisps,
Toby Carvery take away Not me that’s for sure. True fact, my first job was in a Toby Carvery. Working on Sundays whilst at college it was my job to “man the rumbler”, the massive machine that peeled sackfuls of potatoes so we could then chop them into roasties. It was 1986 and I can’t hear Starship’s “We built this city” without being taken back to that kitchen in
If somebody says to you they are off to the upside down house you would be forgiven for thinking they meant a house where the kitchen is downstairs, and the bedrooms are upstairs. Or that there has been a disaster with somebody’s caravan falling off a cliff and landing on its roof on the beach below. In Bournemouth, however, this is an actual upside down house. Well to be fair
Welcome to part 2 of what I learned in 2018. I didn’t mean for this to be in two parts but part one was pushing 3000 words so it was time to split it up before people started reading and feel asleep. If you missed Part One, click here The world stopped for a while when the news broke that Kate, a mum of two, a daughter, a dear