Sometimes, just sometimes during this pandemic, there’s a shift and just for a fleeting glance, it feels different. Just for a second, you forget there’s a world health crisis, forget you’re in lockdown, forget your troubles and actually enjoy it for a minute.
Read More6 month diary of the UK lockdown 1 - March 23rd / September 22nd 2020
Read MoreThere are many myths and superstitions revolving round weddings and your wedding day, but a lot of them are spoken for a reason….
Read MoreOhhh yes, after a few years ‘off’ regular blogging, I am coming back for one solid month of wedding spam - because if you can’t rinse the biggest weekend of your life for content then what’s the point?
Read MoreThis week has been a busy one there's no doubt about it. I have been rushing here there and everyone, as you read this I am away with the weekend in West Wales with friends and I have had a million and one things to do in my bullet journal.
So how to combat it?
Throw caution to the wind and take your brother and father out for a wild Thursday evening of course.
Read MoreLast weekend marked 8 years since me and Joss got together and we always try and mark it with something fun. Being skint, working hard and not having the time for a fortnight's holiday in the sun we booked a last minute hotel room in a Premier Inn on the outskirts of Llanelli and headed West for a few days.
Read MoreFor those folk amongst you who are not Welsh, you might not know that today is St David's Day. We celebrate our patron saint on March 1st every year with an Eisteddford and dressing up when you're in school and scoffing welsh cakes if you're not.
If you're not Welsh, you probably don't know a lot about it, least of all why we celebrate being Welsh, and what it feels like. It's probably unsurprising that with a name like mine and from a family of Welsh ancestors through and through, I really quite like being Welsh.
Here's a coupla reasons why;
Read MoreBeing Welsh. For those who are it's maybe the best thing in the world isn't it?
There's something about being Welsh that makes you part of community, part of something where people understand you, where people get you, where you all have shared memories.
Here's 43 things you'll know if you grew up in Wales.
Read MoreMy brother has been banging on about doing another escape rooms since the last time we went way back at the end of 2016 - so when I got the offer to review another one at Escape Reality Cardiff I knew exactly who I'd be taking with me.
Read MoreI haven't forgotten about my promise (and your interest) to do more homeware, home renovations and content on my house. I am crowning September 'home month' and there'll be a new post about home ownership, decorating and general moving every week so that's fun.
Today though I thought I'd share some info on where we got our furniture. I did a blog post back when we moved on things we'd genuinely bought which you can read about here but it was more a list of little bits we'd got our hands on (or an Ikea catalogue if you want to look at it that way).
I'm going to do a post on my kitchen on it's own because it's the biggest room and required the most amount of work but for today, here's where I got my furniture;
Read MoreI swear my posts are getting later and later this week but I have a whole schedule of posting every day that I really want to get through so booo you'll have to just have to have these as bedtime reading more than for your morning commute.
But hey! Today marks the start of National Stationery Week which is a week I think the majority of us can DEFINITELY get on board with!
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