November 22, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Inspiration & Lifestyle

The Awesome Advent Calendar Round Up 2017

Ah Advent Calendars. I’ve been writing a round up of Advent Calendars for years, and every year they get more expensive, crazy, and more sold out by mid November. This year I’ve found 25 amazing grown up Advent Calendars, ranging from healthy protein packed goodies, through to indulgent high end beauty. I’ve also conveniently organised

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Things I Tried in October

Well, that’s another month gone and it’s basically Christmas now, right? At least it is if you visit the shops, the Starbucks Christmas Cups have arrived and that means Christmas music, glitter and sparkle. Before we get there though, it’s time for a quick look at a few new things I tried in October. Veloforte

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway

It’s amazing how often you hear the words “I’d love to….”. But you know that person will never do the thing they’d love to do, even though there’s absolutely nothing stopping them. I most commonly hear it in relation to my playing Roller Derby. When I tell people I play they’ve either never heard of

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Halloween Home Decor

Halloween is 2 weeks away, and I’m making plans to turn my house into a spooky Halloween grotto for a few nights. I do love a bit of Halloween tat, as you can tell from my weekend purchases, however I’m not really a fan of the over the top animatronic models and rotting Zombies style

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

The Perils of Social Media, or Why I Deleted Facebook from my Phone

I think Social Media is an awesome thing. It’s kept me in touch with people I would otherwise have lost touch with years ago. Got me back in touch with people I HAD lost contact with and enabled me to run several businesses that would have been impossible 20 years ago. But despite this, a

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Creature Comforts and the Importance of a Good Cup of Tea

This post is produced in collaboration with The English Tea Shop I mentioned in yesterdays This Week I that things are, er, a little stressful, around here at the moment. These things will pass, as they always do, and routine will be restored, but when times are tough there is one thing I have learned

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Aviva Community Fund – Nelson’s Journey

β€˜In association with Aviva Community Fund 2017’ Regular readers will know that I’m a Roller Derby player. I bang on about it a fair bit (it’s worse if you know me in person, honestly). Roller Derby has added a lot to my life, and I feel very fortunate that I got the chance to give

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Food & Drink Money Saving and Budgeting Recipes

Meal Prep: 3 Easy Make Ahead Lunches

Planning my meals has been one of the things that’s made the biggest difference to how I eat. It’s made me healthier, and it’s saved me money. Make ahead lunches were my first forays into meal planning. I used to get to lunch time, starving, and realise there was basically nothing in the house. Prompting

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Dealing with a Post Event Come Down

At the moment I am totally dealing with a post-event come down. At the weekend I was in Stoke for the Roller Derby British Championships, at which we not only achieved our goal of promotion to Tier 2, but also managed to finish up placed second in the whole of Tier 3. This is an

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