Recycling tea caddies

. Well technically this isn’t recycling as I bought the tea caddies especially but I thought I would share as it is so simple and, I think, looks fab.   I first saw the idea on Pinterest a while ago where somebody had planted something in square Whittards tea tins, all different colours and standing on a window sill they looked fabulous. I have finally got around to recreating it

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The Gallery — Buildings

. You know when you read something in French and then you translate it and you think “well that can’t be right” so you do a Google translate on it to check on your rusty school French?   And then it comes up with the same thing as you just thought?  So you then think the website owner must have made a mistake? And then you wonder if this is

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Karcher K4 Compact Home — Review

.Karcher K4 Compact Home Review Buying a new pressure washer can be a bit of a head scratching moment, there are so many to choose from, where do you actually start?  Well I would suggest the Karcher K4 would be a very good place to start. Is the Karcher K4 any good? Well hey say a picture paints a thousand words so I am going to let you see for

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Treading Water and Fighting Fires

. It’s weird.  This is one of those posts that I am starting and not knowing what I am really going to say.   Well that bit isn’t weird, alot of my posts start like that.   The majority of them though, I know where I am going with it.   With this I don’t.    But I started this blog as a place to get things out of my

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The Gallery — My favourite place

. .     Halfway down the stairs is a stair where i sit. there isn’t any other stair quite like it. i’m not at the bottom, i’m not at the top; so this is the stair where I always stop.   For the last half a dozen years my favourite place has been right on the bottom edge of Barbados.  Where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean.  Just in front

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Gift Guide for a 21 year old

. What was I thinking when I decided to get 21 birthday presents for Caity’s birthday?!  Alongside deciding I would get 50 for Mr B who turned 50 five days later?   I must have been mad.   But actually thanks to the internet I managed to get all of them without even leaving my desk. These are some of my favourites that I got Caity The Easy Lock Now

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How to organise a party to remember

. This post contains links to some items we have been sent in return for a mention   If you are anything like me, you spend months organising a party and then the event itself goes in a flash and you think “blimey, was that it?”.    But your guests tell you it was a party to remember, and for all the right reasons.  Phew.   I have been to

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Top Tips for a Buckingham Palace Garden Party

I thought I should share my Top Tips for a Buckingham Palace Garden Party as we have just been to our first (and only I would think!). Tell all your friends. This is a huge big deal and you should really enjoy your moment in the spot light.    You have been invited to a Buckingham Palace Garden party! These events have been going on for generations and mark the

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The ‘Money Can’t Buy’ London Weekend

Ok, so just about everything on this weekend could be bought, so the title isn’t strictly speaking true, but….. Caity was 21 this month, and that gave us a bit of a (lovely) problem – what do you get a 21 year old these days? She’s moved in with her (also lovely) boyfriend so there aren’t really day to day things that she needs these days.  Anything spotted online or whilst out

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#HDYGG — Buckingham Palace

How does your Garden Grow (#HDYGG) is from Buckingham Palace this week!  I know. Get me.   We could have been in any park on Wednesday afternoon.  The sun was shining.  People were strolling, arm in arm, or in small groups.  Some were stopping to admire the plants, others to take a picture with the impressive building behind us.   There were even some dogs having a run.   Closely

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The only apple ice cream recipe you will ever need

This is the recipe you didn’t know you need.  It’s the only apple pie ice cream recipe you will ever need, even when you don’t know you need an apple pie ice cream recipe My inlaws arrived on Sunday for ten days and that meant one thing on Saturday: menu planning.   I need to be ahead of the game this week as there is SO much happening.  GCSEs, an

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Coffee shop culture

There is a coffee shop culture, you might not realise that if you are a grab and go kind of person, but I can assure you that if you are “get a cup and plan to sit and work for a few hours” type person it’s a whole different ball game. Can you work in a coffee shop all day? Good question, let’s find out shall we? 7.13am I am

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