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Stop losing money while you sleep
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Decorating a toddler’s room with butterflies
We’ve been doing so much to prepare for the baby recently, directly and indirectly, that it was nice to do something just for Talitha. Bit by bit, we’re decorating her bedroom. This weekend, we added...
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Keeping warm and cheerful on a budget
Sponsored post Being from tropical climes, I didn’t grow up with winter. In the last eight years of living here, I’ve been known to suddenly panic as the temperatures drop. Once I’d well and truly got...
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When do you know you love your vacuum cleaner a little too much?
When we got married four years ago, Laurence’s godfather bought us the extravagant gift I’d listed with John Lewis, not expecting that anyone would actually go for it. He probably didn’t realise that...
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When Nesting Strikes – Sorting Out Our Bedroom
One of our resolutions for this year is to work on the house. We moved in last June and, once we’d unpacked, progress massively slowed down. It’s a joint resolution since I refuse to resolve to do much...
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Daydreaming about a new sofa
Almost nine months ago, we moved. In fact, we were blessed with being able to buy our first house. In fact, we were so excited about it, I fell pregnant right after we moved! Haha! Ahem. Bit by bit...
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Make a random chalk wall – Paternity Leave Activity #2
Circus Queen’s husband reporting here on what we did at birth plus three days: On a whim back in the summer I picked up some black paint to make a chalk wall somewhere in our house. I am not really a...
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5 things that may raise your home insurance costs
Having passed my driving test this week, I joked with Laurence that I’m finally on my way to feeling like a “real grown up”. So, one step down, I reckon the next step is to get my head fully around our...
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Lessons in Sleep – Next Home and Garden, Cribbs Causeway
You’d think that the last thing a mother of a toddler and new baby would need is a lesson in sleep. After all, I’m dozing into the picture books around 3pm most days, if not earlier. Yet, most nights I...
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Moving house with children
I can scarcely believe it’s already been just over a year since we moved into our current house. In many ways, it still feels new. There’s so much we want to do to it some day when funds, time and...
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Dreaming about the countryside
This is a partnered post Sometimes I worry that we’re addicted to change. Some people fear the unknown. I wonder if we might be scared of homeostasis (yes, yes, I’ve been watching too much Big Bang...
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Win a £250 voucher for Virgin Experiences with Carpetright
While I still have quite a way to go, I don’t think anyone (even those who’ve only known me the past few years!) can have missed the fact that my housekeeping skills have improved over time. I mean, by...
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Welcoming Autumn into our home
This is my ninth Autumn in England, and well, my ninth Autumn ever, because we only have dry season and rainy season in Trinidad and Tobago. It is unquestionably my favourite season, even if the cold...
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5 Online Tools for Home Improvement
I don’t think you begin to really appreciate what goes into a house until you’ve bought one and any improvements are yours to make. I also don’t think a house bugs you that much until you’ve lived in...
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A simple bed makeover
We moved into our house about a year and a half ago and it is embarrassing how long it’s taken us to finally start sorting our bedroom. The thing is, we don’t have to spend that much time upstairs at...
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What we learned from buying a house
We haven’t really done things in the order you’re supposed to. We got married before I started my career and we had a baby before I’d got my career going in full force. We have never been DINKYs...
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Child’s chest of drawers makeover
I am so proud of having done this project by myself as I have been ridiculously practicality-challenged in the past. But this is my year for having a go at new things and I don’t think this is a poor...
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A room for two sisters
Ophelia is going to be one-year-old in a week and a half. I know. I can scarcely believe it either. Talitha has been desperate for her to move into her room like we said she would. Well, their room....
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Forever is a long time
Ever since we bought this house, I’ve had a bit of an obsession with wood flooring. I notice it wherever we go and I can’t help but point it out to Laurence. He’s pretty bored of hearing, “Wouldn’t it...
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3 tips for DIY on a budget
We have a lot of DIY on the go at the moment, especially in the garden but in the house too. We’re both just trying to take things one at a time so we don’t get overwhelmed and so we don’t break the...
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