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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
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,
The menopause really is the gift that just keeps on giving. I think people were shocked when I listed the recognised symptoms of the menopause in this recent post: My thoughts on the menopause. The idea that the menopause is about more than just periods and hot sweats, that this pesky hormone imbalance can lead to disruptions in so many of the body’s processes is an eyeopener to
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
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
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
This is a collaborative post For the most part 2018 was rubbish. I certainly won’t be remembering it with any affection, that’s for sure. But in amongst all the poop, there were some lovely moments. Such as seeing Caity get married, it really was the most perfect day and she looked stunning. Mr B and I celebrated ten years of marriage. My granny had seventy people sing
I jumped at the chance to recently review some Visibly Vegan candles. After all, you know how much I love a smelly candle. I must admit I thought I knew quite a bit about being a vegan. Not that I have ever been one, though I was veggie for a while as a teenager. I know that it means that along with the obvious meat and eggs it also
This might be a controversial one but here goes. I don’t like the term #Gifted. To be fair it might not be something that is even on your radar, so let me explain. Us bloggers, or influencers as we are increasingly being referred to, are required by the ASA to mark anything that we have been paid for, or sent for inclusion in a blog social media, as an
I want to have a word with Deborah Ross about influencers following her comments in The Times this week. Help me out here Deborah. Why did you feel it necessary to pen a column in the Times this week where you said that influencers should be relabelled “Detestable Freeloaders”? Well I know what brought it about, your watching the programme about Cliveden and the inclusion of two influencers called
Let’s face it, I can’t be the only one who hasn’t quite grasped the idea that December starts at the weekend, can I? Can I? Anyone? Bueller? Which means I may have been a bit slow off the mark with advent calendars. And I know that the cardboard ones I had as a small child aren’t really going to cut it. Even the ones I had that were covered
It hadn’t really occurred to me to be honest, that technology is killing our ability to be spontaneous. In fact I was always thinking the exact opposite. That having so much information in the plan of my hand as allowing me to have more knowledge of what I could do if I wanted to be spontaneous. How finding ourselves with a free Saturday afternoon at home would