Truth be told, I haven’t been all that inclusionary over here on the blog. I always produce a Mother’s Day Gift Guide but have yet to one for Father’s Day. It isn’t a day I celebrate and therefore I can’t say it enters my head much, which is very selfish isn’t it. So here it …
This blog contains affiliate links. If the past few months have taught us anything, I hope it’s the value of Self-Care. We’ve all altered our lives dramatically to not only care for ourselves, but to care for the health of others and it would be a shame if we slip back into a time of …
This post contains affiliate links. Wool Jumper, £69 I spend a lot of time throughout the year thinking about Christmas. I’m that guy. I start buying presents as early as January, making mental notes of things people didn’t get for Christmas I knew they wanted, or what they liked from other people’s festive …
This blog post contains affiliate links. Every year I tell myself I don’t ‘need’ any more Christmas decorations. But early November it arrives and that small niggling voice saying ‘go on, just have a quick look at John Lewis’ selection…’ arrives soon after. It’s closely followed by an internal argument about the fact I …
As with all posts, this blog post contains affiliate links. I feel like I should start this blog post by saying sorry for being such a lousy blogger of late. The last blog I posted was way back in August, having just come back from Rome. In the months since life has well and …
Ah, sleep. We’ve been here before on the blog haven’t we? My troubled journey to getting a better nights sleep has been fairly well documented over the years. On a very simple level, I apparently just don’t need as much sleep as other people may do in order to be fully functional. However, for …
This is a sponsored post produced in collaboration with French Connection Home Some of the most rewarding pieces of content I’m able to create are those that challenge me. The process of creating an image is exactly why I do what I do, it’s my favourite part of running my own blog. That …
In my family Mother’s Day has always been quite the event. It isn’t just a celebration of my own mum, but equally of my Grandma. Both were responsible for bringing me up and both fully deserve several tokens of appreciate. It’s a little bit of a tradition in recent years that I cook dinner and …
Full disclosure here: I start my Christmas shopping in January. In fact if truth be told, I never really stop it. Throughout the year I pick up pieces as and when I see them, as ideas pop into my head or as I’m visiting somewhere. For some the very idea of that is enough to …
My family isn’t overtly religious, but there’s enough of an undercurrent of belief there with my mum to mean as a child we had the kind of Advent Calendars that didn’t contain a foil wrapped chocolate treat behind each square but rather a picture of an object vaguely related to the Nativity. “Oh look …
