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How to Throw a Surprise Party for Your Friend’s 40th Birthday
As you and your friends get older, your priorities begin to change. Gone may be the days that you stay up until sunrise, bouncing from club to club and living da vida loca, but they’ve likely been replaced by something much more fulfilling: staying up past your...
How a clean and tidy home benefits mental health
We often talk about a lack of cleanliness in terms of social faux pas. Other times, maintaining a tidy home becomes a matter of morality. These perspectives seem important as parents pass these ideas down through the generations. Still, they’re not the reasons you...
My Other Husband by Dorothy Koomson
This is the year I’ve given up thinking I’m smart enough to solve Dorothy Koomson’s mystery! I bow to the master of the BIG REVEAL. If you have been following me for a while, you’ll know I’m a fan and that I usually review her latest book around Spring/Summer. This...
Managing My Menopause Symptoms With Green Therapy
In my twenties, I enjoyed hiking in Trinidad on Sundays. I used to say being in the forest made me feel the wonder and majesty of God. When I relocated to England, for many years I lacked that connection and sometimes felt off-kilter. It wasn’t until national lockdown...
13 Creative Ways To Make Your Kid’s Bedroom More Spacious
Bedroom ideas for kids can be pretty challenging, especially when decorating and making room for more space. Every parent wants their kids to have an uncluttered space where they can do their homework and play, but they are sometimes stuck with oddly shaped rooms due...
Self-Care and Outdoors Father’s Day Gift Ideas
I don’t know about you, but Father’s Day fills me with dread when it comes gifting. These days, we all pretty much purchase what we want when we want, men especially. However, the one area dads are not usually good at is self-care. We ladies I have learnt that looking...
An Afternoon On Ramsgate Main Sands Beach
I’ll admit, prior to visiting Ramsgate, all I knew about it was that Vincent Van Gogh lived there (circa 1876) for a bit AND it was featured in Netflix’s series 2 Top Boy. We visited on the Thursday of the Platinum Jubilee and it was a vibe. Although, we didn’t have...
New Home New Garden: where we are now
We moved into our current home during lockdown June 2021. During that time, house hunters needed to have a mortgage in principle to view houses and the numbers of people viewing at a time was limited. We saw the house once before agreeing to put an offer. The four...
Discover the Power of Play with Jaques London (AD)
My family and I love board games. We mostly play when we are on our getaways. Far from the mumdrum of everyday life, we pull games out, play and bond. We play for real, no going easy on the kids and they feel proud when for ever earned win! Usually, we find something...
An Interview With Leiba Lewis: founder of the website MummyPause
Leiba Lewis and I share the same alma mater, The University Of The West Indies, St. Augustine Trinidad (UWI). Studying at the UWI certainly solidified the passion not just for the written word but also stories that reflect our lived experience. When Leiba shared with...
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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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