November 23, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Food & Drink

Oh No! Not More Cocktails!

I’m so sorry, I know I promised you no more Cocktails. But these ones were FREE, which is the best kind of cocktail, and they came with dinner thrown in too and it is an actual rule in my life never to turn down a free cocktail. Really On Saturday, after that long drive back

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Food & Drink

Top 10 Chocolate Free Advent Calendars for 2014

It still seems horribly early to be talking about advent calendars. But in reality there’s only 25 days till you’ll be opening that first door! Last years post on advent calendars was one of my most popular posts, and I’ve noticed it starting to pop up in my stats again, so that means people are

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Food & Drink

Healthy Convenience Foods

Whilst the Summer might have kind of sucked fitness wise, I did get to try a load of good stuff to eat! I meant to post about this stuff individually, review it and go into detail, but, well, life got in the way. Frankly I ran out of time and space to write about all

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Food & Drink

Cocktail Week Highlights

I told you I’d be back with more Cocktails! I promise this will be the last one for a little while, as I’m pretty much cocktailed out, but this has been a big thing in my life for the last 6 months plus and it seems a shame to let it end without a little

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Food & Drink

The Worst Outfit Photos in the World

Ok, so maybe not the *very* worst. But today I offer you a cautionary tale of the perils of attempting to take outfit photos in a busy street on a windy day, especially when you’re in a hurry because you’re running late to sit in a pub all afternoon. ♠ Blouse – Heyday!* ♠ Skirt

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Food & Drink

More Cocktails…….

Happy Norwich Cocktail Week! I’ve been working on this with Mr Chick for almost a year, and watching it become a reality has been pretty exciting! On Friday night we had a launch party which was sponsored by Stolichnaya Vodka which meant I got to stand behind a lemonade cart and give free Stoli Lemonades

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Food & Drink

The Night Retro Chick Drank 30 Cocktails

Ok, so I didn’t drink ALL of 30 Cocktails, but I did try 30. And I did it all while wearing a cocktail cardigan. Yes, I gave in and bought the Voodoo Vixen Cocktail cardigan from this post, funds wouldn’t quite allow for the cocktail dress as well, but I had to have one of

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Food & Drink Retro Chick Competitions

Norwich Cocktail News

Well! You remember back in April I told you about Norwich Cocktail Week? No? Well that’s ok because I shall tell you about it again as it’s now only a month away and we’ve been spending the last 4 months working hard on making it as awesome as we can! Various cities around the country

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Cocktails Food & Drink

Creating Cocktails – The Eton Mess

I’ve been all about the cocktails this Summer! Organising Norwich Cocktail Week has meant that they’ve been on my mind a lot and there have been lots of meetings trying out cocktails at bars that are involved. It’s a hard life, right? A few weeks ago I got an email from Waitrose asking me to

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