It’s that time of year – let’s talk Sunglasses
It’s that time of year, isn’t it? You’ve handed over your holiday deposit, booked the time off work and officially started counting down the days until you head off for some sunshine.And you know what that means – you’ve started looking for your summer essentials. Top of my list this year is some new sunglasses – something I keep putting off because it’s such a faff. I prefer to do...
Whooop! Pretty new notebooks for National Stationery Week #NatStatWeek
When you realise it’s National Stationery Week and your job now means you have to spend the Whole Week looking at new stationery… I decided to kick off the obsession with a stop by my favourite place for a quick happy burst of notebook shopping – Paperchase’s sale department. I know, go me. Oh, who can so no to that little sleepy owl face? And the bee, did you spot the bee?! The teal felt cover is created...
A love poem. To my beautiful United Kingdom. #iloveyoUK
Growing up, foreign holidays were for the posh family next door. Us? We went camping. In Norfolk. And Cornwall, the Peaks, the New Forest, Somerset, the Lakes… And honestly? It was great. I never felt I was missing out – holidays were always… well, a holiday! When we were first married, we had pretty much zero disposable income – but we had a tent, and we continued to explore year after year. Then just as we...
Travel with Kids – KAYAK’s Totally Indispensable ‘Ultimate Guide’
Like most families we love to travel together. It’s amazing to share new experiences, explore new places and share new things together – but being the one doing the organising can be a major headache, can’t it? I’m not sure how you work it, but for us we share the job of choosing where we’re going, and where we’re staying. But long years of experience have told us that it’s at this point that...
The lightest, thinnest, fastest (& prettiest) laptop – the ASUS ZenBook 3 Review
It’s a conversation I see a lot in my online social circles; “I’m looking for a new laptop. It needs to handle all my work, but also needs to be light to carry around. Any suggestions?”. Yes, yes I do. Just for you, here’s the ASUS ZenBook 3 Review. For bloggers and writers and photographers, it’s the same perennial issue (and yes, it’s no doubt the same for many others too) – we...
New Curriculum AQA A-level Economics Practice Test Papers from Letts
The key thing I’ve always found with exam success is practice. Practice, practice, practice. Of course you need ot know your stuff – not having the knowledge in your head on exam morning can be a slight issue in the whole achieving-a-good-grade plan. But if you walk into the exam room and know exactly what to expect – what your exam paper will look like, how the marking scheme works, how long to spend per question...