The awful events that took place on Friday 13th have been in and out of my thoughts all week. France are our neighbours, and I’ve visited Paris a few times. It’s a beautiful city, where so many people live, work and travel to. It is unbelievable to me that a group of human beings can inflict such…
Winter is coming – and not in the Game of Thrones, swords and sexy kind of way, with ominous tones delivered by a shielded hunk who looks more solemn than a bureaucrat at a funeral. Winter is actually coming, and it can play havoc with your health.
Autumn can be a very beautiful time of year, when the days are crisp and the sky is blue and clear. It’s very much a changing season when the trees and plants that were once bright and green turn to reds, browns and golden yellows. There are many jobs we need to do as homeowners…
When my teen went back to school a few weeks ago, we received the usual letters home asking for us to provide emergency contacts and details of information evenings that were planned. The usual stuff that kids and parents have to sort at the beginning of school. There was another letter though, that wasn’t the usual kind of…
Lands’ End UK are very much a new brand to me, but they have made a very big impression. I recently attended their headquarters in Oakham with a group of bloggers to find out more about them, and I really liked what I learned. Lands’ End UK are certainly going to be featuring in my…
A date night in our house was long over due. Daddy and I spend a lot of time at our computers which is sadly the downside of being me being a blogger and my husband being a software engineer. It felt like we were due to spend sometime nurturing our relationship. Now that autumn is here,…
Summer has come and gone and now it is time to decorate your home for the autumn/fall season! Filling it with appropriate decorations is a fun process, but it can be quite costly. However, you can save on your home decor by using coupons for this and other special occasions. There are also a number of…
My son’s girlfriend likes to bake cakes. It seems her whole family likes to bake cakes. Whenever there is an occasion, someone bakes a cake. She popped round this week and we got chatting about her cake making. I demanded to know what her ‘go to’ cake recipe was and she told me all about…
Having children can really change things in a relationship. You can both find yourself asking how do we get that spark back into our marriage, how do we make things exciting again? You can think that things aren’t going to change once you have kids, but for a lot of people they do and it…
Best Sofa to Buy For Your Personality Choosing the best sofa for your home is a big decision and one you need to spend some getting right. Buying large sofas for the family should be a relatively easy, exciting experience. But, more often than not, the process of purchasing a couch is much more frustrating…
I have been troubled for a long time about the conflict in Syria and news of the many refugees that make the life threatening trip across the Mediterranean to seek asylum in various parts of Europe. Images of children being dragged from boats in the dead of night have haunted me for sometime, and are…
Over the summer, Princess and I were invited to a very special sports event hosted by Soreen. We are huge fans of Soreen Malt Loaf, and we also know how important it is to encourage kids to be active so we jumped at the chance to head along to Loughborough University and find out what…
I love my MacBook Pro. If you follow me on social media or know me personally you’ll know this was a big investment for me. Seeing as I was going to be working on my blog more and more and want to develop a freelance career in social media management it seemed like a pretty…
I wanted to write a blog post that covered all the key elements to getting your blog off the ground in one handy place. The thing with blogging is there is so much to it. You are always learning and making tweaks to improve your blog, increase your reach and get your content writing out…
Hello everyone. Thanks for stopping by last week and catching up with my weight loss update. I really appreciate all the support your giving me, it’s keeping me motivated even on days when things aren’t going quite so well. It’s also lovely to read that some of you experience some of the issues I do….
These last few weeks I’ve been back on my weight loss mission. I’ve been sharing weekly updates of my challenges and how I’m trying to overcome them in my series, Thinking Thin. If you’ve haven’t stopped by yet, you can catch up with all the posts right here. I’m sure you’ll find some nuggets of…