5 Surprising Things Lockdown Taught Me

At long last! The lockdown restrictions have been loosened! They haven’t gone away completely… And we still can’t relegate the whole Covid-19 calamity to the annals of History… (More’s the pity!) However, our schools and shops are gradually opening up and we can only live in hope that, before too long, we will slip back into our…

How to Transform a Nursery Nook into a Tween Dream!

*Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links It’s been a little while since I last checked in with my beloved blog. ”Why, oh why?” I hear you ask. Well, multiple reasons, really! Yes, we are still in lockdown (and if some news reports are to be believed, we will remain so for quite some time to come! 😱), so,…

How to Escape the Lockdown Lows

So, here we are, many (I have lost count of the exact number!) weeks into our new existence in lockdown land. In some ways, it’s fine! An opportunity to step back from the rat race, to relax, to reassess our lives, to take stock of what is truly important. But in other ways, this new…

How to Prevent Lockdown Weight Gain

Spring has finally sprung! 💕🌸 The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the blossom trees are blooming… Business as usual for all except… Humanity… Because we are now into week three (or thereabouts, I’ve lost count already!) of a pandemic lockdown… on a global scale. 😮 Oh, how I wish I was joking… or…

4 Easy Ways to Boost your Immune System

Oh, dear! It’s been a couple of weeks since I last updated this blog, and how I wish I could say we had found our way out of the twilight zone that is the coronavirus crisis… But, alas… We haven’t! 😢 On the contrary, in fact! We have now gone from self-isolating in the case…

How to Survive Self-Isolation – 3 Top Tips

Oh my! I seriously do not know how we’ve landed here… Slap bang in the middle of the plot of a dystopian novel. The coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic is currently rampaging unabated through our precious planet and all we can do is look on, open-mouthed, incredulous at what has become of our no longer normal lives. Last…

How to Stay Calm in a Crisis

*Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links It’s official! The entire world has gone into coronavirus crisis mode! The numbers affected are escalating at a furious rate, entire countries are shutting down and people are stripping the supermarket shelves bare of… toilet paper, mostly! And it is proving beyond difficult not to go into an all-out…

Is Caudalie, the latest must-have French beauty brand, worth all the hype?

*Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links Ah! French beauty brands! A long term addiction of mine! A guilty pleasure, with hardly any guilt attached. After all, who could feel guilty for being besotted by the most beauteous of beauty products that the world has to offer?! Brands that make you want to exclaim… Even if…

10 Family Must-Buys in the wake of the Coronavirus Crisis

*Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links ”We live in within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.  Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of…