Brr, it’s cold in here… Eek! It’s getting colder and I’m feeling it. All my winter jumpers have come out of hiding and I’m wearing socks to bed (but more on that later…). Although I am in love with this season, it can wreak havoc on your skin! The constant switch in temperature from bitterly
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Spring Forward, Fall Back | Getting Ready For the Clocks Changing
The end of British Summer time looms with the clocks set to go back on Sunday 29th October at 2am, so you’ve got just over a week to get ready for it changing. Most adults can muddle through the change, albeit feeling quite out of sorts, but children find it a lot harder to make
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3 Ways Of Preparing Your Home For The Winter
The winter is rapidly approaching us and while we’re all still enjoying the final days of the year where the sun makes an appearance, it will soon be time to dig out that winter coat and begin embracing the winter time. One thing we should also be thinking about, is giving our homes a bit
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Getting Your Home and Kitchen Ready For Christmas
As the days are getting shorter and the air crisper, the cold weather draws us into the warmth of our home. We naturally begin to start thinking about the mundane, such as getting out the thick coats and wellie boots, and turning the heating back on; however there is of course much to look forward
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Hazy Shade of Winter | Wrapping Up Warm in Knitwear: Some of My Top Picks
I don’t know about where you are, but down here in the south east it has been freezing cold lately. I know we are still in the height of winter, but I’m just not used to it. The other day I was defrosting the car in -5°c, and the other day the temperature didn’t get
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Top Tips for Winter Driving
With winter comes difficult driving conditions – fog can impair road visibility, the wind can affect your steering and handling, ice can make it difficult to navigate your way through town, and snow can cause chaos on motorways. Can we all remember last week?! While driving conditions are likely to change during the winter months,
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Don’t Let The Freezing Weather Make You Unwell: Food To Keep Your Mind And Your Body Healthy
2017 has started with freezing wintry showers, and there are serious indications that they are not over! For everyone, this is a call for comfort food and healthy vitamins to boost your immune system. For women with PCOS this may not be as easy as it is for everyone else. Comfort food is exactly the
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Night Time Essentials For Mum & The Kids
With the cold weather still upon us, snow forecast and the night times are still getting dark early on, I am still in hibernation mode. Once the school pick up is done, we get home, if there aren’t any clubs on, and chill out. The kids wind down with dinner and bath time and then
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Prevent Dry Skin: How to Add Moisture to Your Makeup Routine in Winter
Cosmetologists and women everywhere know that winter is not good for the skin. The cold, dry air sucks the moisture out of the skin and leaves it just as parched. On really bad days, exposed skin can even crack and bleed. The good news is that it’s easy to keep skin moist even during the