Health & Lifestyle.
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...
3 eye makeup tips for glasses wearers
It may surprise you to know, I'm a glasses wearer. I wear glasses to read and with the joy of joys of maturing, every year I need a stronger prescription. I would say that I have almond shaped eyes but I’m also prone to under eye dark circles. Insneezia...
A Lunch Date At The Albany (sponsored)
I read in a magazine recently that only two thirds of parents agree that date nights are important; nearly half are put off by the expense or tiredness. Hubby and I can totally relate but our way around it is by going on weekday lunch dates. It allows us...
Anxiety, Depression and the (peri)Menopause and ME
I’ve been battling with anxiety and depression and since I was about 10 years old. Over the years I’ve used various copying mechanism. You name it I might have tried, from over eating, to starving, to volunteer work and exercise. I had about a decade...
10 hours on the Isle of Man
He told me it was a surprise but I could see he was bursting to tell me more. I’m good at biding my time. So, when I didn’t take the bait and ask ‘where are we going?’ He finally decided to drop hints. After about a week of not pursuing it, I decided to...
An Interview with Anita Frost Founder/Author of the Green Bean Collection
Last week I attended the London Toy Fair 2019. Although it was my third time visiting the Toy Fair, 2019 was the 66th year of the fair! My inner child came out. If you follow me on Insta you would have seen my selfies with CBeebies' Bing Bunny and Flop, as...
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: THE SANITATION STRIKE OF 1968
On 1 February 1968, two Memphis garbage collectors, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death by a malfunctioning truck. Eleven days later, frustrated by the city’s response to the latest event in a long pattern of neglect and abuse of its black...
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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