Review: Dirty Dancing at the Orchard Theatre
Personalised Number plate as a Christmas gift
Sponsored Post¦ Are you struggling to think of a special Christmas gift for someone? I know that feeling too well. There’s only so many times in a row you can buy someone socks and mugs, after all! Something you may not have even thought about is a personalised number plate. It’s not necessarily something that most people would buy for themselves, but something that most people would absolutely love to receive as a gift.
5 beautiful gifts for baby’s first Christmas 2021
Gift Guide¦ There’s been something of a baby boom since the pandemic started. As such, there will be so many cute little babies celebrating their first Christmas this year! My Reuben was born at the beginning of January, so he’ll be one of them. He’s already loving the lights and sparkles. I can’t wait to includes him in our traditions and see what he thinks of his presents. What do you get a baby for their first Christmas, though? It’s not like they can ask for things. The best way to go is a mixture of fun and practicality. Here are my recommendations of presents that parents will love to receive and babies will feel the benefit of too!
Book Review: Everything Under The Sun
Book Review¦ I LOVED Everything Under the Sun as soon as I laid eyes on it. Children are naturally curious and it’s so important that we feed that curiosity. For them, every day brings something new and they’re so keen to ask questions and learn. This book has a question for every day of the year (366 so leap years are covered), all of which have been asked by children around the world. Experts from Heston Blumenthal to the Natural History Museum’s curators have provided the answers in a child-friendly way.
Best Foods To Help a Cold & Cough This Season
Guest Post¦ Are you concerned about getting sick during the upcoming cold and flu season? Even if your medicine cabinets are full of home remedies, healthy supplements and Wellements children’s cough syrup, you may be searching for natural ways to improve your immunity and soothe potential cold symptoms through your diet. The right foods can provide your body with crucial nutrients, help ward off sickness and help you recover more quickly if you do develop a cold or a cough. Whether you already suspect that you may be sick or whether you simply want to be prepared in case you happen to catch something, eating the right foods can make all the difference. Here are some of the best foods to help a cold or cough this season.
8 ways to cope with dark mornings
Contains Sponsored Link¦ Now that the clocks have gone back, we’ve been plunged into the dark wintery mornings I loathe. Along with dropping temperatures, it’s not exactly a great combination for motivation! I’m really not a winter person at all and I find it being dark when I wake up really tough. The last thing I want to do is get up and ready for work. It takes every fibre of my being to not just curl up and stay under the duvet for a few more hours! However, there are things that you can do to make the dark mornings a bit more tolerable!
Increase Your Home’s Value with these 10 Outdoor Upgrades
Collaborative Post¦ A major kitchen renovation or garage addition may be too expensive to tackle now. But you can make your home more enjoyable and more valuable with some less expensive outdoor upgrades. You will find some improvements such as a new decked patio (with butyl tape to protect your investment) giving you more living space, while others elevate your aesthetic, such as bifold doors or the addition of some lovely new bushes in the garden.
Review: Jaques of London toys and board games
Review – Gifted¦ Established in 1795, Jaques of London is the oldest games company and sports manufacturer in the world. Amazingly, it has stayed in the same family and is now on its eight generation! According to their website, “Jaques have been responsible for inventing many well known games, such as Croquet, Ping Pong, Snakes and Ladders, Ludo, Tiddledy Winks, The Staunton Chess Set, Happy Families, Snap and many more”.
We were recently invited to review a couple of their products and have been very impressed. See for yourself and shop at Jaques of London with a 15% discount by using this link: https://jaques.games/15off
Creating the perfect gallery wall with Desenio
Gifted & Sponsored ¦ For years, I’ve been toying with the idea of a gallery wall. Done right, they look amazing. Yet I’ve always shied away from it for the fear of putting holes in the wall only for it to end up looking cluttered and not as I envisioned. Last November, we moved house and we’ve just got to the point where we can actually start decorating soon (hooray!) Ahead of this, I’ve been using Desenio’s fantastic gallery wall tool to collate some of their beautiful prints into the perfect gallery wall for my bedroom.
A Handy Guide If You’re Struggling To Conceive
Collaborative Post¦ You may have everything you want in life and be exactly where you envisioned being. You might have the perfect career, the perfect partner, and the perfect house. There is just one thing missing, a baby. Unfortunately, struggling to conceive naturally is more common than we think. 1 in 7 couples have trouble conceiving. The longer you try to conceive the less likely your chance of conceiving naturally will be. If you are not too bothered about how you get a child you could look into other methods of having a baby. These include fostering, adoption, or surrogacy.
