Health & Lifestyle.
30 Birch Challenge (sponsored by Weleda UK)
I woke up one morning two months ago and suddenly it seemed I had dry dull skin and more cellulite! Granted, I had been grabbing more fast food than usual due to a busy schedule but I was drinking lots of water and exercising. My skincare regime was more...
Doing it Antigua & Barbuda Style: what cool looks like
What I love about the Caribbean is that we have more in common than different. Our feel-good, fun-loving and helpful nature surpasses our language differences. Who could stand still to the sounds from the region; whether it's soca, zouk, benna, the rhythm...
West Beach Littlehampton
It was so tempting to go to West Beach, Littlehampton, on Easter Sunday. In the end, we decided to go to the local pool. We already had our mini break which included lots of driving. The kids are simply happy to be outdoors anywhere. We had a wonderful...
5 Surefire Ways To Improve Your Flooring (sponsored guest post)
Flooring is the very important part of your home or a workplace so you must know about some surefire ways to improve and maintain the floor which are very necessary for a comfortable floor. Flooring is already a very sensitive project on which you cannot...
Tackling Childhood Obesity
I went on to BBC 5 Live Sunday Breakfast last week to give a parent’s perspective on the findings from the report completed by Dr Charlotte Hardman (University of Liverpool) and Dr. Prabeetha Patalay (University College of London). Links were found between...
4 hours in Canterbury
Recently, we spent a day in Broadstairs and overnighted at Holiday Inn Express Canterbury. The hotel was about 12 mins drive from the City Centre. Hubby pre-booked parking in the City using the Just Park app, so we wouldn't be stressed the following day....
5 hours in Broadstairs Kent
When hubby told me he had taken a few days off, while the kids were on Easter hols AND he wanted to go away for a couple days I knew our destination… Broadstairs. It’s been ages since we’ve been to Kent. Broastairs has been on my list ages. He agreed and...
An Interview with Founders of Twigs Naturals: Cheryl Ann Baptiste & Nigel Jordan
If you grew up in Caribbean or spent your childhood summers visiting family there, you’ll know about bush tea. Bush/herbal tea was the dread of many a child. Some tricksters ... ahem, might have poured theirs down the sink but it couldn’t be avoided for...
My Evening of Shakespeare and Sonnets: sponsored by Viking Direct
In my teens, I dabbled with poetry that was before I discovered journaling. My style was closest to blank verse, it I ever got my head around ‘iambic pentameter’. At university I majored in English which meant I studied a fair bit of Shakespeare which I...
Lincolnshire Spring 2019
You can probably tell by now that I love Lincoln. On a good day, it’s about four hour’s drive from our home. What I love about it is that fits us a family. The kids and I like to go off on adventures; nature walking. While Hubby feels more ‘at home’, close...
TIGERTALES.
Hi! I’m Maria. My family and I live in London but I’m originally from Trinidad, West Indies. My beloved and I got married in 2006. He’s Chinese/Italian. When we decided to increase our family, the first inevitable question was ‘what the child would look like?’... [ + ]
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