This is a sponsored post in collaboration with FLEXISPOT. There comes a point in adulthood when your idea of luxury changes quite dramatically. Once upon a time, luxury meant going out. New shoes, new clothes, new handbag. Fancy cocktails, and staying awake past midnight without needing three business days to recover. Now? Give me a comfortable chair, somewhere to charge
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The other day my phone informed me that I had used 86% of my storage space, which was annoying because I already pay Google £2.49 a month for the privilege of storing my digital life in the cloud. Apparently whatever amount of storage you buy simply becomes the new amount of storage you eventually fill; like a gas, your data
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This post was written in collaboration with Very.co.uk. When I moved into this house just over a year ago, the garden was pretty tasteful. Minimalist. Calm. Grey pots. Slate chips. A space that clearly belonged to someone who was a fan of minimalism. I am not that person. My kids are definitely not those people. Over the past year, my
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This Solar Powered Pond Fountain from Poposoap was sent to me for this review. Contains affiliate links. You can buy it from Amazon, here. Check out the Poposoap website. You may have noticed that I’m writing rather less content on these pages and that’s because I just don’t have time to review things for the sake of it any longer
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This post was written in collaboration with Very.co.uk. There’s a very particular moment every year when the feeling of Christmas sneaks up on you. For me, it was the first Saturday in November after the clocks changed; the sky was grey, the dog was refusing to go out because of the cold and wet and I got the overwhelming urge
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You may only have noticed it subconsciously, but wood wall panelling has been quietly staging a full-blown comeback over the past few years. This isn’t a return to dusty studies or a 1970s throwback, though; Today, panelling is turning up in the smartest of places, from boutique hotels in Shoreditch to pared-back townhouses in Primrose Hill…and it’s looking sharper than ever. Of
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This Slushie Maker review is a collaboration with Inoviva. All opinions and pictures are my own. You can buy the Inoviva 2L Slushie Maker on Amazon here. It has an RRP of £319.99 but if you use the code 10INOVIVA on Amazon it comes down to about £260. This post contains affiliate links. Why I needed a slushie machine (and
This post was written in collaboration with Very.co.uk Look, I love the idea of summer. Sun, long evenings, drinks in the garden, maybe even brushing off the BBQ if I can remember how to light it. But in reality? British summer is a weird little beast. One minute you’re suffering through a heatwave and everyone’s miserable because no one can
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*This post contains affiliate links. May got off to a belting start; I started typing this from the midst of a heatwave! I then completely forgot to finish it. I’d offer apologies for the fact that this update is now over a week later than it should have been, but I’m exhausted and I don’t have many to offer so
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