Marks and Spencer A/W 13 collections

M&S AW13 red biker jacket

I will admit to being totally blown away by all of the products I saw last Thursday at the Marks and Spencer A/W 13 launch. It is no secret I am a massive M&S fan, one of my favourite pink cardigans is now 10 years old and still looks as good as new which [...]

How a water softener could save you money

hanson salt

Approximately 60% of water supplies in the United Kingdon are hard, meaning they have substantial deposits of calcium and magnesium. While these elements are harmless to humans and animals, they can play havoc with your home and cost you money.

If you think that the water running through your hot water pipes, your furnace, [...]

How does your garden grow?

purple flower

Well mine in all honesty is let to do much as it pleases in as much as I am not a constant gardener but one who dabbles now and then. Thank goodness the forsynthia knows that! She gets a good cut mid summer and again in the autumn and we get on just fine.

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The one where I thought Bessie may have fractured her arm

great patient

I always, as far as I can, walk the girls to school, only torrential downpours prevent us.

The school run home is a different matter, both of them are tired, neither of them want to walk and I can do without the moaning. This is where our Mini Micro scooters have come in to [...]

Beef and barley cottage pie plus review of the Yeo Valley cookbook

beef and barley cottage pie

If there’s one cookbook that should be on every kitchen shelf in the kingdom it’s a farmhouse cookbook. A farmhouse is the centre of all food production and a hive of culinary activity.

My first ever cookbook was The Dairy Book of Family Cookery and it serves me well even to this day but [...]

Farmhouse Chicken – Le Creuset Cast Iron Challenge

busy girls chicken

Le Creuset kitchenware is very high up on my WANT list and these beautiful pieces of kitchen equipment are so adaptable and easy to use. You can use a pot to stew, braise, simmer or bake.

I have been sent a 20 cm round casserole pot by McArthurGlen Designer Outlets The centres stock a [...]

Breadmakers – are they worth it?

bread Panasonic breadmaker

If there was one product I really wanted to try out of the Panasonic kitchen range it was the Panasonic breadmaker and on the understanding I wrote a guest post for The Ideas Kitchen they sent me one to have fun with and boy do I love it.

The first recipe I tried was [...]

Where I live – Bluewater shopping centre

bluewater thames walk

Do you like where you live?

I don’t.

I mean I used to as a 15 year old, I can remember shopping in the town centre, walking through the market square, spending my hard earned cash on the clothes stalls and a trip to OK records to get myself the latest vinyl disc. It [...]

LIFT 60 second face lift by Rio Beauty

LIFT 60 second facelift

Is it possible to have a face lift for only £80?

Yes but not with surgeons and operating theatres or with the dreadful outcome that we see some major celebrities sporting on their faces in the ongoing battle to look young.

Rio Beauty asked me if I’d like to trial their 60 second facelift [...]

10 years anniversary No Smoking!

smash hits and Jackie

Yay, big round of applause to me.

10 years ago in April 2003 I smoked my final cigarette and mentioning when I started in the 30 years ago post the other day it brought it all back to me.

I started smoking in the 80′s whilst I was still at school. It was hip [...]

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