I have a new hobby. It’s called Homify.
Have you seen Homify yet? Oh me oh my, you’re in for a serious treat. If you love a bit of interiors design (and let’s face it, who doesn’t?), then Homify is likely to feel like all your Christmases come at once. It’s like someone took the whole contents of Pinterest, mixed them up with all the very best interiors blogs and magazines, scooped out all the inspiring pictures and ideas, then categorised them...
Buying Sunglasses Online? Nightmare.
When GlassesDirect got in touch and asked if I’d like to review some sunglasses, I’ll admit I was hesitant to say yes. Not that I didn’t need a new pair of sunglasses – on the contrary, I was desperately in need of some. But with GlassesDirect you have to buy them online. Nightmare. Because I’m hopeless at telling what will suit me when I’m just looking at empty frames on a screen. It’s bad...
Spotted! Canvas Leather Backpack perfect for summer trips
Lookety look! A pretty canvas leather backpack! If there’s one thing that annoys me in the summer, it’s having to carry a handbag – you need a bag with you, but when you’re out and about adventuring, you want your hands free, don’t you? but backpacks are inherently ugly, so I usually make do with a lovely messenger bag (which is actually just too small for purse/keys/phone/sunglasses, never mind...
International Currency Exchange Rates Baffle Me.
We’re off to France next month, and as usual we’ll watch the £-€ rate wobble around for a while, wonder when to buy the Euros, then decide that actually by far the best thing to do is use our fee-free credit card (as recommended by the awesomeness that is Martin Lewis), and use whoever’s giving the best rate a week before we go for purchasing some useable cash. But we’ve just been looking into the possibilities...
Getting a car – when they refuse you finance.
Money Worries are something I think nearly all families face at some point in their lives. Sometimes it’s an unexpected bill that leaves things tight for a month. But sometimes it’s mind-numbing worry that keeps you awake at 3 in the morning, fighting the hot prickly feeling that steals across you over and over and over as you turn your problems around in your head, trying desperately to find a way out. Thankfully, for...
10 Things Killed By Technology (that I sort of miss…)
I love technology – we owe our entire lifestyle to modern technology, and we’re grateful for it every single day. The internet allows us the amazing flexibility of working from home – and I would never ever have considered home educating four children without the world wide web at my (and their) fingertips. Not just for their unbelievably busy gaming social lives, but for the knowledge that is right there for the...