Tips for Packing and Travelling Light for Women
Ask anyone out there, and they will tell you women are hopeless when it comes to packing and traveling light. Nonetheless, it is super easy to travel light and be stylish at the same time. The trick is to wear what you are comfortable in. If you wear it at home, you can travel in it. Clothes, shoes, toiletries, and makeup are the most basic stuff in your bag; keep it that way. By GP PIXSTOCK Shutterstock After playing and...
Things You Should Know About MOT’s
The global coronavirus pandemic has more or less derailed everything, and that includes your annual MOT. While in 2020, there was an automatic six month extension for vehicles to get their MOTs, this is not the case this year – so if your car’s MOT is due soon, make sure you book it as soon as possible. Here are three things you should know about MOTs. By Gorodenkoff Shutterstock Why it is Necessary? The MOT – originally the...
We’ve found some GORGEOUS picnicware, look…
I never need an excuse to browse gorgeous picnicware. But this week is National Picnic Week – a full on reason if ever I heard one! And why the Scotch egg not, eh? I mean we all love a picnic, especially when we’ve some gorgeous picnicware to enjoy it with. And now we can all get outside again with the ones we love (even if we have to keep a little distance), a picnic seems a great idea of enjoying our wonderful...
Take Your 2020 New Year’s Resolution to the Next Level in Cumbria!
Many of us will be familiar with the hesitation which surrounds New Year’s resolutions — “do I, don’t I, will I keep it up?”. Those of us who abandon all good intentions come January 2nd will also be familiar with how easy it is to brush any guilt off. There’s a lot of satisfaction to be had if you are the one person in the office who keeps to their plans — and if it is a fitness related resolution then it’s practically a double...
Our 5 Best Walking Trousers for DofE
Honestly, we’ve been bombarded (okay, stop peering over your glasses, we’ve been asked a handful of times) since we wrote about what you need on the DofE kit list, asking for more advice and tips on kit; ‘Which are the Best Walking Trousers for DofE’ (see below), ‘Will my kid be okay in trainers for the first one’ (possibly, but not ideal),’can they carry eggs for breakfast’ (yes, but...
Essential Budget DofE Kit List for Teens
Faced with that lo-o-o-ong shopping list of essential DofE kit? Fear not – I’ve got you. And yes, it really is possible to put together a budget-friendly Duke of Edinburgh kit list without remortgaging the house. Once the preserve of the hardy intrepid youth groups, the DofE Award has now become something of a rite of passage. Lately, my social media has been full of parents quietly panicking over the spiralling cost of expedition...