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A Thrifty Tip for Valentine's Day Decorations
I have a money saving hint for buying decorations for Valentine's Day (and many other special occasions). In my local garden centre, all the Christmas produce is being sold at 75% off. Looking at the...
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LighterLife Fasting - How Easy is the 5:2 Diet?
I'm into the second week of my 5:2 diet plan using LighterLife Fastpacks on my fast days. After week one, my weight had dropped by 3 lbs even though I had enjoyed an Indian takeaway on one of my...
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TalkTalk Mobile SafeApp - Protecting Your Phone and Your Family For Free
The TalkTalk MobileSafe security app for Android is available exclusively for TalkTalk Mobile customers. It provides a unique range of security features to protect your phone and your family on the...
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Cheer Yourself Up on Blue Monday
Today is officially the 'most depressing day of the year'. A combination of post Christmas blues, winter weather, low motivation, failing New Year Resolutions and financial troubles conspire against...
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Secrets Behind Beauty - An Infographic
Escape and unwind by creating a real pamper session at home with indulgent bodycare products.This post is a PR Collaboration.
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A moment that mattered from 2013
2013 was a funny old year. With much of the early part of the year given over to Ian's operation and long, slow recovery, my memories are a bit of a blur. It took a long time for Ian to get himself...
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New Year, new budget: move away from old habits and start saving money!
They come around every January, those brief moments of virtue and determination known as New Year’s Resolutions. They don't always pan out, but we use them to give ourselves ideas of what we need to...
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Poorly Freddy
It's been a tough week. Freddy got poorly on Thursday night complaining that he couldn't 'swallow the water in his mouth'. That was the start of a horrendous virus that has only just started to...
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To tattoo or not tattoo?! And what to do when it goes wrong!
For my first wedding anniversary back in 1998, Ian and I had tattoos done. I had a simple bracelet style tattoo around my wrist and Ian had a dragon headed sword design on his upper arm. We arrived...
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My 2014 Reading List - 10 books that will change your life
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplification for Collective Bias and its advertiser.I love to read. Escaping...
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Wish I Was There Photo Competition #AFWishIWasThere
The January weather is wet and miserable. The sky is grey and the rain is unrelenting. Not a great way to start the new year. As I sit and look out of my window at another dull day, my mind is...
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The secret of the perfect Mother’s Day
January is in its final days which means that edging ever closer to the promise of springtime. This starts me thinking about special days that are coming up such as Mother's Day. So now is the time...
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Kalixa Pay - helping you to manage your finances at home or away!
There is no getting away from the fact that many of us are struggling to manage our finances in this economic climate. Times are hard with prices in supermarkets going up every week. The price of...
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Why banning bespectacled animals on T-shirts is not a good idea.
Tesco have just announced that they are banning a range of clothing featuring animals wearing glasses alongside the words 'geek' and 'nerd'. But is this decision the right thing to do?Of course as a...
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Mathseeds - Get a Free Four Week Trial Today!
We are fans of Reading Eggs, an online programme which features motivational reading games and phonics lessons for children aged three and up. My little boy Freddy is quite a reluctant learner, but...
View ArticleGlasses Wearing and the Negative Connotations of being a Geek
Today I wrote this post about clothing featuring glassing wearing animals in response to an article in the Daily Mail that I read this morning. As a parent of a glasses wearing child it resonated with...
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LEGO vs Zombies - A Carcraft Challenge
Carcraft have set us the challenge to play out an exciting, high octane action scene featuring a LEGO vehicle. So me and the kids set to work to make our own mini-movie with the car as the star! We...
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Jelly Jamm Toys
Fans of Jelly Jamm are going to love the new range of Jelly Jamm plush toys available to buy now from Amazon and The Entertainer. Jelly Jamm is a kids' show celebrating the friendship between some...
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Some Lovely New Children's Picture Books on Review
The Boy Who Ate Everything by Clemency Pearce, illustrations by Richard Watson Top That Publishing RRP £6.99If ever a book was written to appeal to my 4 year old son, it was this one. The rhythmic,...
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Britain's Best Blanket Fort Competition #blanketfortcomp
The Furniture Market is hosting a competition, challenging families to build Britain's Best Blanket Fort! They'll be looking over all the entries and the most fantastic fort will be rewarded - the...
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