Thorntons – amazing 20% off TODAY, even the sale items!
Dec15

Thorntons – amazing 20% off TODAY, even the sale items!

So here’s a clever thing – and a bonkersly brilliant deal. Thorntons, those purveyors of delish chocolates, have some spectacular Christmas deals on. And today you get an extra 20% off – even the existing reduced prices. So take the absolutely gorgeous Continental Collection Box; celebrating 60 years of chocolate heaven from the continent, they have brought back 4 exquisite limited edition chocolates including Brandy...

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Accurist Gents Watch 50% off – Christmas Gift Guide
Dec15

Accurist Gents Watch 50% off – Christmas Gift Guide

Men are often some of the trickiest family members to buy for, aren’t they? I find it’s either dead easy.. or nigh on impossible to really find the perfect thing. BUT over the years I have come to realise that somet hings can make it easier. Watches are one of those things. Don’t presume that because he has a nice watch, he might not like another. It’s like you deciding that you have a fabulous pair of shoes...

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All I want for Christmas… is these Kickers | Christmas Gift Guide
Dec11

All I want for Christmas… is these Kickers | Christmas Gift Guide

It’s no secret that we LOVE Kickers. Ever since my own teens I have wanted a pair of Kickers of my own. My children have all worn them… which has done nothing to assuage my own yearning, obviously, and has simply proved to me how great they are (they’re fabulous kids shoes – well constructed, roomy, sturdy and robust). So I’ve decided that now, in my 40th year, the time has come for a change. It is time...

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The most beautiful wood salt & pepper shakers | Christmas Gift Guide
Dec10

The most beautiful wood salt & pepper shakers | Christmas Gift Guide

*sighs happily* Aren’t they just bee-yoo-tiful? two of my favourite textures – natural wood and smooth pebbles – combined into useful, pretty objects. They just make me smile – and want to touch one. The smooth round shape of the Salt and Pepper Shakers makes them not only very beautiful, but also very comfortable to hold. They can be arranged in any way possible turned upside down and they will always look...

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New Playmobil Fairies Range – Christmas Gift Guide
Dec09

New Playmobil Fairies Range – Christmas Gift Guide

My 7yr old daughter is a small paradox – she loves to wear a frou-frou skirt, have her her long and free, and desperately wants to paint her nails (yeah, like I let THAT happen…). BUt while she’s wearing her fluffy tutu, she likes to be armed with a sniper rifle, or climbing a tree, or chasing her big brothers across a windy hilltop. It’s one of the things I like most about her, actually – she’s...

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Blurb Best Photo Books Review | Perfect Grandparent Christmas Gift (2021)
Dec09

Blurb Best Photo Books Review | Perfect Grandparent Christmas Gift (2021)

Every year I create my in-laws an album of everything we’ve done during the year – they live nearly 200 miles away, and don’t see the children anywhere near as often as we’d like. So to replace all those Grandparenty-photos they don’t get to take by being out and about with us, the children choose all their favourites from the year to create a book for Gangy & Bumpa. One year we did a DVD for them… but really they simply...

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