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• February 8, 2017

  Getting Started With a Bullet Journal – 5 Easy Ideas for Beginners

  In a bid to make better use of my time in 2017, one of the things I’ve started recently is a bullet journal. Bullet journaling is something I only discovered a few months ago (thanks Instagram!) and already I’m finding it really useful in helping me feel more organised and productive. If, like me, you’ve…
• February 1, 2017

  Five Reasons I Fell Out of Love With Facebook

  When I joined Facebook back in 2011, I thought it was pretty wonderful.  As a stay-at-home Mum with little chance to socialise, it provided an opportunity to ‘chat’ with other adults, look at photos of peoples’ holidays and keep up to date with the latest goings-ons of friends and relatives in far-flung destinations. I was…
• January 25, 2017

  Reading and Watching Lately – January 2017

  One of the things I love about winter is the chance to spend evenings indoors catching up on reading, movies and television, and as someone known to rummage aimlessly around the library, bookstore or Amazon Prime listings in search of inspiration, I really enjoy picking up recommendations for books, films and TV shows on other…
• January 19, 2017

  The Truth About Adding a Puppy to Your Family – A Survival Guide

  Ah puppies. We all love them, don’t we? I mean, who can resist their sweet little faces, soft velvety fur and big innocent eyes. But if you’re thinking of adding a puppy to your family it pays to look beyond the thousands of cute images you’re likely to see on the Internet and social media.…
• December 31, 2016

  Ten Things Turning 40 Taught Me

  2016 will be memorable for many reasons – including Brexit, the controversial US Presidential election, and the highest number of celebrity deaths in recent memory.  For me, though, 2016 has a very special significance, as it was also the year I reached the milestone age of 40; something that seemed very far away a decade…
• December 21, 2016

  My Favourite Winter Photos

  I’m the first to admit that Winter hasn’t always been my favourite time of year, and before the kids came along I could often be found huddling over my SAD lamp and complaining about the lack of daylight – probably due to working full time in an office and seeing very little of it except…
• December 19, 2016

  My Top Five Christmas Movies

  One of the best things about the Christmas holidays is the chance to curl up in front of the TV and watch a good old Christmassy movie, and one of my favourite pre-Christmas rituals involves getting out the festive edition of the Radio Times and highlighting all the movies and TV programmes we plan to…
• December 15, 2016

  No Bake Christmas Pudding Biscuits

  It’s the day of the school Christmas fayre, the cubs party or the local Christmas coffee morning and you realise that in amongst the hundreds of reminders you’ve accumulated since the beginning of December, you’ve forgotten you should have been baking. Sound familiar? Well, never fear, help is on hand in the form of these…
• December 7, 2016

  Sixteen Things To Do on a 48 Hour Trip to Edinburgh

  Edinburgh has always been one of my favourite cities, and as I lived there for a couple of years while I was a postgrad and first started working, it also holds a lot of special memories. So when GB and I recently had the chance of a short child-and dog-free visit for a Scottish Book…
• December 1, 2016

  How to Make a Book Advent Calendar for Under £10

  Now that we’re into December, our household’s Christmas countdown has officially begun, and instead of our usual choice of advent calendar I decided to do something a bit different for the kids this year and mark the countdown to Christmas Eve with 24 festive and winter themed books. This means that instead of opening that…