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Review: Visiting Flamingoland Zoo
We saw the first road sign for Flamingoland and I got so excited I nearly steered the car off the road. The second sign and I really had to concentrate on driving because I was jumping up and down in my seat and would have been clapping my hands in excitement if I wasn’t holding…
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[minimalism] Planned Obsolescence
Planned Obsolescence (or Planned Obsolesence, but that’s not how you’re supposed to spell it): My future husband’s microwave was already rusty inside by the time I moved in with him in late 2010. One day in early 2011 I tried to reheat some parsnips. There was nothing special about them, they were bog standard parsnips…
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[music] Forever Still, an awesome band from Denmark
Do you love female fronted rock bands as much as I do? Do you feel a little bit sad that there aren’t enough women in rock in the world? Do you just love a good headbanging tune to rock on with? Fear not, friends, I have just discovered this AMAZING new band that you will LOVE:…
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[travel] How Many Pairs Of Socks? How Many Panties?
It doesn’t matter how many times I go anywhere. The size of the bag seems to make no difference. I always find myself, about an hour before I am due to depart, hanging around my smalls, trying to decide on the fundamentals of travel packing: How many socks, how many panties? Go on, snigger. Then…
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[minimalism] How I Chose Which Books To Get Rid Of, And Holding a Book Sale
How I chose which books to get rid of and holding a book sale. So I worked out (between starting a new full time job and running a house and falling asleep in Italian class) how to assess the books. I took a set of about five books (I started with one bookshelf and just…
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Vitamin K: The one everyone forgets.
Today I thought I would share an article with you about Vitamin K, the vitamin that everyone forgets because they never put it in multivitamins (because it’s expensive and can’t be absorbed when there’s vitamin E around). Vitamin K is super-important as a vitamin. It’s fat soluble, meaning you need to eat it with a…
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[beauty] Neutrals Full Face Tutorial Video
Hey guys so I thought I would mix it up a bit today by putting my latest Youtube video as a blog update as well! I know Makeup Geek do this quite a lot and thought I’d have a little experiment. The video assumes you’ve started by putting on your normal daily face cream, and…
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[rabbits] How to keep hot, happy bunnies over winter
Ideas for keeping your bunnies warm, and how to move indoor bunnies outdoors or outdoor bunnies inside: Sometimes the weather gets cold. Like, really cold. As you know, rabbits love to go out whether it’s rainy, sunny, snowy, windy or foggy. Rabbits just love to play. Pet rabbits are different to wild rabbits because they…
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Vanlife fail: Pimp my ride? How ’bout M.O.T. my Ride…
My Citroen Xsara Picasso Camper Conversion has a minor problem today. In the UK, there’s this pesky thing called an MoT (short for Ministry of Transport, as in, inspection on behalf of the Ministry of Transport) which means you can’t have a car on the road that doesn’t meet some specific criteria. It was actually…