Five things to do in Sicily

  For a splendid vacation in the heart of the Mediterranean, whether you are an art lover, a historian, a food connoisseur, or a nature and sports enthusiast – Sicily is definitely the place to be. This is not only due to its long and rich history imbued with the spirit of over two millennia of cross-cultural interaction (which makes Sicily a melting pot of diversity), the many UNESCO-protected natural

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Afternoon tea with my mum and Rice Dream

It is rare that I get to sit down for a cup of tea with my mum.  For all sorts of logistical reasons and also because a cup of tea is something my mum rarely enjoys these days.  Not since she gave up dairy a few years ago.    A kinesiologist has suggested that some health issues she had been having might be related to dairy and could well alleviated

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Window Wednesday — Guildford Cathedral

  It feels like ages since I have posted something for my weekly window post.  My love for windows and their ability to frame a photo hasn’t diminished but time to go out and photograph them had recently.  Last week we ventured to Guildford for a mooch on New Year’s Eve and to see if anything grabbed us in the sales and on the way back we realised we had

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Why you need Amazon Prime in your life

For just under £80 a year Amazon Prime could save your life.  Not in a CPR kind a way, obviously, but in a day to day stress relieving way.    That by paying that one off membership you get so much more.  And save yourself a whole ton of other one off delivery charges from other companies. Amazon Prime Now You know that feeling when you realise you have no

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Hello 2017

I am not really sure why I am writing this post but it feels like the first post of the year should be a proper one.  A formal one to mark the start of a new bunch of 365 days.   Like using your neatest handwriting and only underlining with a ruler on the first page of a notepad, before it all goes down hill five pages in.   Or

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Ginmas Week 5

Week 5 of Ginmas, our final week of a gin a day Week 5 of #Ginmas is now done and I have to say that at the beginning I really wasn’t sure if I would manage to post a gin a day for a whole month.  To be organised enough that every day at 6pm I would have a photo of each gin and a little bit about each one

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Ginmas Week 4

Ginmas Week 4 already! Another week and and seven more gins for Ginmas Week 4!  All of the above are the gins I shared during week 4 of #Ginmas over on social media (my month of gins, one a day for the whole of December) but wanted to record them all here too.   If you want to hunt them down then do look up The Gin Parlour who will

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Tips for Balancing Work and Motherhood

Tips for Balancing Work and Motherhood Balancing work and motherhood can be quite a complicated task for a lot of women, especially when the position is a full-time one. Quite naturally with the birth of a child priorities change and very often the topic of finding more time for one’s family suddenly becomes one of the most important issues. With the amount of stress that not being able to spend

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Five top tips for moving house with children

    Are you selling a family home? If so, not only will you have to contend with all the stress that goes with selling and buying, you’ll also have to give some thought to the practical and emotional aspects of moving with children. Here are five tips you can use to make the process of moving house a little bit easier if you have kids in tow. Warn children

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Ginmas Week 3

Ginmas Week 3 So apologies for this post being a day late.  Should have had it up yesterday but <insert long list of pathetic excuses involving a to do list longer than your arm and a five hour lunch with a client> …. Another week of seven different gins and Ginmas Week 3.  Eek!  I wasn’t sure this would actually work and that I would be able to keep it

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Christmas Around the World

Christmas Around the World Christmas traditions around the world fascinate me.  In fact any kinds of traditions do and this year I have made a concerted effort to start reinforcing some of our own.   You see things have changed over the past few years with us either being at Mr B’s parents, my parents, away in a rented cottage in Cornwall etc, but last year the teens said they

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Writing Christmas cards doesn’t have to be a chore

How many status updates have I seen on Facebook this week where people have said “oh god I have just spent hours writing cards and I am not even half way through”  or “I have cramp” or “I am so bored with writing cards now”.     I will tell you how many.  A lot.    Writing Christmas cards really doesn’t have to be a massive chore, all you need

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