For Christmas this year, my husband kindly gave me an Amazon Echo – and so far, I love it. In fact, I wish I had one in every room. It’s great for listening to podcasts and my Audible audiobooks, plus the reminder function is very handy. Plus, now that my daughter is back at school and my home office is terribly quiet, it’s almost like Alexa is my new colleague,… View Post
As a parent, particularly as a mother, the lead up to Christmas can be fraught: there’s your children’s parties and nativities to attend, the classmates’ cards to write and the present shopping to be done. And this year, I cocked up. Not because of the last-minute revisions to my daughter’s letter to Santa, but somehow, I managed to buy duplicate items not once, not twice, not even on three occasions. Yes,… View Post
Yesterday, I cleared out our fridge so that I could put away the new groceries. It was only when my four-year-old daughter mentioned how much food I was chucking away that I realised that we’d become rather slack. Say what you want about the environmental impact, but here I was literally tossing our money in the trash. And it seems that I’m not the only one who is wasting hard-earned… View Post
What can I say? I love magazines. It started as a kid with my monthly edition of Highlights Magazine, the Canadian version of a Blue Peter comic, then through my teenage years, it was YM and Sassy magazines that I would read cover-to-cover. As an adult, my tastes slowly changed, moving from Glamour and Red Magazine to Ideal Home and Good Homes. However, magazines don’t come cheap – especially if… View Post
Two years ago my husband stopped eating gluten. He had recently been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and read that a gluten-free diet might help ease some of his symptoms. We switched the way we ate – and shopped – and the effects have been dramatic. In fact, he says that he’s never felt better. The thing is, once we made the switch from normal flour and started using ground almonds… View Post