‘Calm down, have a cigarette?’ my try hard mother dictates to me across the family dinner table – she says it to sound ‘down with the kids’, as I know she’d put it. What I should establish now is that mine is a family of certain unsaid but engrained values […]

It’s not that I religiously don’t drink… This festive season, I’ve had more than two glasses of mead, and a little sup of mulled wine.  The latter, I had half a glass of while out at the Christmas Markets and from it did get very merry.  But that was in the […]

When walking down the street in your local city, it can be incredibly annoying and frustrating when you are stuck behind thousands of tourists all wanting to know directions to somewhere or walking slowly to take in the sites. However, despite whatever inconveniences there might seem to be from this, […]

Until earlier this year, I had never even heard of Ayurveda; let alone Ayurvedic massage – and that’s coming from someone who LOVES their massages. Feeling somewhat baffled and almost a little embarrassed by my ignorance, I set myself a task to delve further into the world of Ayurveda and […]

I don’t know if you have seen the new Nokia Lumia 2520 advert yet but if you haven’t, be prepared for something extraordinary. Why? Because it is absolutely, completely and ridiculously crazy. Before I get into the why, I think it is fair to say to the Nokia team that […]

For the average Brit, the idea of Christmas is accompanied by cold weather, high winds and often vast quantities of rain or snow. This Christmas alone saw thousands without electricity and whilst many have managed to keep their festive spirits up with numerous pictures of large turkeys stuffed into BBQ machines, there […]

The very viral Readers Digest Interview With OGLF revealed that there are many natural, chemical-free and completely organic skincare products that you can buy for not much more than normal moisturisers. The skin is the body’s largest organ, meaning that what you put on it really does matter. No spot […]

Recently, the world’s weather has been completely unpredictable, and that’s putting it lightly. The United Kingdom’s weather last summer and the summers for around five years before that, were a complete wash out, with torrential rain and widespread flooding. Then this summer was scorching, reaching 30 degrees in some lucky […]