A lifestyle blog
With all the cold weather we have been experiencing – is Spring really here?! – you have probably been spending a lot of time indoors. Naturally, that means you’ve noticed those unfinished bits of DIY and imperfect living room décor more than usual. But enough is enough. You have decided to do something about it. Now you need a little help to create the perfect living room for you and
I am newbie when it comes to shopping from TV channels but when Ideal World recently asked me if I wanted to work with them I jumped at the chance. I have to admit that I have never really thought much about shopping via a TV channel, despite a very good friend of mine being a regular on one of them with her world famous chocolate brownies. Which is a
We weren’t even really meant to be in the Leake Street Tunnel on Saturday. Heck before we arrived I hadn’t heard of it, despite it being under the train tracks at Waterloo, our point of arrival into London whenever we travel by train. We arrived there as part of a group taking part in a “night photography tour of London” trip that I had booked through Red Letter Days for
Why you need a greenhouse this summer Can we talk about summer yet? Officially it IS spring but after the weather we have had over the past few weeks you might be forgiven for thinking you have missed it. Now the snow has gone for the majority of us though it is time to start thinking about what we want to do in the garden this year, and for a lot of
Turn Wasted Corners of your Home into Useful Spaces Having kids is fantastic, but there are a few drawbacks. One of which is that their stuff tends to take over a bit. The older they get, the more interests they have. In no time at all, your home is overrun with kids´ bits and bobs, leaving you with very little space to call your own. Now, I am not complaining.
Two things happened this week, well two things that weren’t snow related. The first was I did some much overdue blog maintenance and finally created a Thermomix category to share my posts on this kitchen gadget. And I re-jigged some existing posts about it, naming the series “75 Reasons to love Thermomix”. I have no idea it will become 75 reasons, I mean I know there ARE seventy five
Two things. Firstly, photographs of me on this blog are as rare as hen’s teeth. Secondly, slogan sweatshirts in my wardrobe are rarer that dinosaur poop. So to get the two things combined on one post? Well that means that something worthwhile must be happening. As part of our trips to Africa with Comic Relief, Annie, Penny and I were privileged to visit some of the projects supported by
4 Ways to feel more refreshed before travelling long haul Travelling long haul can be a tiring, by the time you’ve made your way there and managed to make your way through passport control, you then have the actual flight to get through before you’ve made it to your destination. If you’re on a long-haul flight it can be even more tiring, so anything you can do before hand to
What do you call a booze cruise without a cruise? Sounds like start of some dodgy joke, right? But seriously, if you get the train from Folkestone rather than the ferry from Dover, with a view to a day of buying booze, what do you call it? We pondered this as we sat in the car park waiting to board the 09.20 to Calais last week. We also pondered lots
6 Ideas to Spruce up Your Holiday Home Finally and perhaps thankfully to some, the worst of the winter period is past and with Spring a month away, it will soon be coming to a close. So now would be the perfect time to start planning a few ways you could spruce up your holiday home. Whether it’s for you and your family to have a little something extra
Have you ever fancied rebooting your life? If you are anything like me you do it about four hundred times a day. Sometimes it is something small you want to change like finding a way for you to not have to empty the dishwasher for the third time. Sometimes it is something huge like dumping 48 years of emotional baggage and running off in a floaty white dress like the
Brain teasers Humans have toyed with brain teasers since the dawn of recorded history. The oldest surviving brain teaser can be found in the Rig Veda, a book of Sanskrit hymns which dates back almost 3,800 years ago – though no one alive today knows the answer, which is quite frustrating, to be honest. Almost everyone loves a good brain teaser, regardless of whether they are in in the
