With restrictions starting to be lifted, many of us are planning to see family for the first time in a long time. Unfortunately by mother’s day, lots of us still won’t feel confident visiting our mums without putting them at risk. I feel incredibly lucky that my mum has been able to form a support…
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One of the most unexpected traumas of parenting has been having to choose gifts for other people’s children. Every time the girls go to a birthday party, I have to choose birthday gifts by age because I know nothing about the individual child. In that respect, Wicked Uncle have some brilliant children’s gift ideas. Their…
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Many years ago, it was common to pursue one career for life. That often meant leaving school and starting an apprenticeship or completing a degree before starting work. These days that is less common but it does still happen. Whilst I have been self employed for many years, my husband does fall into the category…
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A winter lockdown feels like a different beast to a summer one doesn’t it? Yet, things never really got back to normal after the first one. As time goes on, the things we used to love doing seem like a distant memory. I’ve been thinking about all the things we love and miss that we’ll…
In the fight against waste in the UK, refill shops are a key weapon. Most of us think about the packaging we buy, trying to minimise the use of plastic bags and disposable wrappers. Often though, supermarkets replace plastic bags with paper ones or plastic bottles with glass. Instead, why not do away with packaging…
When it comes to your tyres, Birmingham is something of a mixed bag: some areas are so congested that it might be easier to walk while others would be much easier to drive on were the potholes filled in occasionally. But there are also large swathes of the city where the roads are good, and…