family life & travels
Mother’s Day isn’t that far away now (6th of March for those of us in the UK). We are near to the end of February and with it being a shorter month than the rest, it will quickly come round. So with just one more payday until then, I thought it would be a good
With only a few days to go, this is a bit of a general wishlist, rather than strictly Christmas. It might give you a little inspiration if you have a few gifts that you will need to buy, though. I think I’m fairly easy to buy for, in terms of generic presents, like scented candles
I sometimes can get quite stuck with what to know to get for children for ‘stocking fillers’ that aren’t just tiddly pointless bits from the pound shop. If you do stocking fillers, I think it needs to be ‘less is more’. Just a few things that are actually more useful than a piece of plastic
It is that time of year again when I get asked my the husband what I would like for Christmas. It annoys me a little bit as I think I am very easy to buy for – there are a set of standard things that I would be happy with (include a scented candle and
Now that Halloween and Bonfire Night are out of the way, I feel OK to properly talk about Christmas now – just under 6 weeks to go people! I have quite a lot of my gifts sorted for people but still have a couple to get so I have been perusing the internet to see
We received such an exciting delivery a few days ago – we had been invited to try out some of Hotel Chocolat‘s Christmas collection. There is a gorgeous range of new flavours and products. The main event was the Patisserie Sleekster, which takes classic puddings and cakes recreated in chocolates – really intrigued to try it.
We all know how much of a pain it can be trying to buy gifts for mum and dad. I’m normally pretty good when it comes to buying gifts. But buying for my parents is a total nightmare. Both of them are so difficult to buy for and I often find myself short of ideas
As any other half many know, buying gifts for the guys in their life isn’t an easy task. I find that men are notoriously hard to buy for, which is surprising because they seem like such simple creatures (too harsh)?! 😉 Ideally, you know what they like and what they don’t like, so you have
Buying gifts for our mums on Mother’s Day can be very hard, even if we think we know them well. We want to show that we love and appreciate them as our mother, but that we know she’s more than a mum. She might be your loving mother, but having children doesn’t strip you of
