A lifestyle blog
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,
First of all, just to be clear, whilst I have been involved with fund raising for Comic Relief for the past few years and have made a couple of trips to projects with them I am in no way affiliated with them. Not paid by them (never have been) and have no official role with them. So anything I say here about the white saviour furore is just me
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
This is an advertisement feature ****************** Not everyone gets to travel frequently, which means not everyone has the opportunity to pick up some trade secrets along the way. Hopefully, the top ten travel tips provided here have proven to be useful one way or another. But some rules don’t apply when travelling alone—or with sensible individuals—compared to jet-setting with infants. Having another person entirely dependent on you can be stressful
How to live your best life This post contains products sent for review Want to know how to live your best life? Just make a decision that you are going to do it. That you will do the things you previously never would have done, even if you only do them once, though the chances are that having done it once you will want to do it again. Last year
I have been travelling for almost my entire life, having gone on my first holiday (to Benidorm) when I was 18 months old. Since then I have been very lucky to get away most years, and even spent six years an an ex-pat flying back and forth a number of times a year. This means that I now see myself as a bit of a travel expert and thought
Making the most of small bedrooms As I mentioned in a recent post, we are in the planning stages of all sorts of house refurbishments as we are about to inherit enough money to get all the fiddly jobs done around the house that we have been meaning to do for ages. First up is the bathroom, but after that we have a small box room that have never
7 things to look for when selling your home Selling your home can be a tricky business. Let’s face it sometimes it’s hard to see the faults in your own property. Or to work out what you need to do or change to make it more appealing to prospective buyers. After all, trends change. One-minute wallpaper is back in fashion, the next it’s all about the flooring. So, you need
It is finally time to plan our new bathroom With the sale of granny’s bungalow after she passed away last year, comes an inheritance that means we can finally do all the things to our house we have been promising ourselves we would do if we ever have the money. If we can get somebody passed the offer stage on the bungalow and get it to completion, that money
