A lifestyle blog
How to get in the bank holiday party mood This is a collaborative post Right, the weather forecasters are telling us that Easter weekend in the UK is going to be hotter than Marbella so that means one thing, invite everybody round to ours and have the first barbecue of the year. It can then be a good practice for the two bank holiday weekends in May, God, don’t
Gringotts Wizarding Bank You would think that after visiting over a dozen times Ellie would be over visiting Warner Bros Studio Tour, but nope. Actually nothing could be further from the truth. And you might think that having been so many times there would be nothing new to see. Not so. Especially this year as Gringott’s Wizarding Bank opens in its biggest expansion. Lined by towering marble
Need a career change? Here’s how to make it happen This is a collaborative feature After some years of doing the same thing, we need a bit of a change. It makes sense, though, as a lot of people look for a new place to live and shake up their style a bit once they become bored with it – but, for some reason, it seems like changing your
Who produces your favourite wine? Do you even think about it? You know, who is behind the label? Once upon a time my parents owned a vineyard? For ten years they lived at Chateau Masburel, turning it around from being semi derelict and producing third rate wine sold to a co-operative, into a stunning home and a business that shipped award winning wine worldwide. During that time, and
#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
