Silentnight Duvets – Keep your guests warm & comfy. Or yourself.
Nov23

Silentnight Duvets – Keep your guests warm & comfy. Or yourself.

If there’s one thing in this life that I take very seriously, it’s my bed. I do. Sleep time is no laughing matter. My bedroom may not have been decorated for 20 years (true fact) but my bed is deliciously soft, cosy and covered in luxuriously cool crisp comfortabilities. Any mother knows that her own sleep is hard to come by. Throw in working from home till 2 most mornings and your bed becomes a very very dear place in...

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Spotted! Beautiful Denby Amethyst Tumblers half price!
Nov20

Spotted! Beautiful Denby Amethyst Tumblers half price!

There’s something about a really good tumbler – they’re as tactile as a tea cup, aren’t they? And the Amethyst Tumblers from Denby are some of my favourites at the moment. Imagine the happy “oooh!” that escaped me then when I spotted them on the Debenhams site at half price! £10 for a pair? Don’t mind if I do… *beam* Denby pair of ‘Amethyst’ tumblers reduced in Debenhams to...

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Blurb Books. What do we think?
Nov08

Blurb Books. What do we think?

Well. I’ll show you, actually…   I did warn Blurb books that I was not going to be a good reviewer for them. I’m married to a high-end professional wedding photographer, and one of my many hats is designing his (hand-bound-in-Italy) wedding albums.Let’s just say I Know My Albums.No no, Blurb books said. Go for it. So I did. I created a book with our 2011 images ready for the annual Gift For the...

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Review: SanDisk Extreme® USB 3.0 Flash Drive. Stop YAWNING, it’s good!
Nov06

Review: SanDisk Extreme® USB 3.0 Flash Drive. Stop YAWNING, it’s good!

I would like to tell you how fabulous this little USB stick is. How fast it works, how sturdy it is. But sadly I can’t. Because I opened the pack, put it on my desk, and it disappeared. Quicker than you can say STICK it had vanished into the clutches of a grasping teenager. “Oh aces, thanks Mum, I totally need this to get my I.T. in tomorrow” And so it was gone. Oh I have seen it again. When it has been dutifully...

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Spotted! Autumn Trees Mug.
Nov01

Spotted! Autumn Trees Mug.

Oh, gorgeous! We all love a n autumn walk in the woods – and now you can have a little slice of that with every mug of tea. I love this mug – not just for the prettiness of the design, but for the quirky detail when you get to look closer: So much going on! The Autumn Trees mug is available in Heals for £9.50.

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Spotted! Owl Tea Cosy
Oct29

Spotted! Owl Tea Cosy

A tea cosy. That is an owl. I think that’s all there is to say about that. *happy face* You can nab an Owl Tea Cosy for yourself from the Ulster Weavers store over on Not On The High Street for £15.

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