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7 Top Tips for Brightening Up Your Dark Rooms

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Not all homes are blessed with plenty of natural light and while you may not realise it, lack of natural lighting can have a negative impact on the overall ambience of any room. It’s a fact that humans respond, act and feel better in an environment that has abundant natural light, but also has light inspired décor. You don’t need to go for renovations to install new windows. A few quick tricks can brighten up your dark without spending a lot of money. Even your darkest rooms can be brightened up using these seven easy tips: 1.      Tweak the Existing Lights It seems obvious that … [Read More...]

A love of sewing!

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I don't often get excited by emails these days,  "you've won £1 million in a contest you didn't know you'd entered", has still not arrived in my inbox! But earlier this week I have to admit to there being a squeal when some pictures from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. A new exhibition called Sampled Lives gives us an opportunity to see some of the archives most precious treasures. I remember doing a very simple sampler as a child at school and feeling quite proud of my work. but in comparison to these works it was nothing at all! The detail and complicated nature of the stitches … [Read More...]

A personal reflection on vaping and how it has proved beneficial to me .

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Firstly let me make this clear that this is not a discussion about the health benefits or lack there-of of vaping as despite a lot of research, I have found it very difficult to find bias free research based data about the health effects of vaping. This largely down to the relatively short time that vaping has been around and the bias with which many studies are undertaken dependant on which side of the argument they are being paid by. This will purely be an article about how vaping has made my life easier and more enjoyable. Smell Frankly when I vape I don’t stink , my clothes don’t … [Read More...]

A room with a view……

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I missed the meteor shower this year! We were in the highlands and well away from light pollution, so we would have had a wonderful view, but we were so busy caught up visiting family and friends that I completely forgot to go out and watch! We did try to watch it last year, but balanced precariously on the shed roof, suddenly realising I should have gone to the loo before clambering up there, turned out to be a disaster and led only to harsh words rather than a vision of the heavens!   One day, when I'm rich and famous, or maybe  find a winning lottery ticket I will have a house … [Read More...]

Updating my summer wardrobe.

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It's fair to say I'm pretty rubbish st fashion! I'm not very good at choosing new things and get pretty stuck in the same old thing every year. It doesn't help I guess that I am no longer an hour glass figure.....well lets says there a lot more sand than there used to be and most of has sunk to the bottom! I loathe trying things on in shops, the lights are hideous and they so often don't have the right size or the colour you want. I say "the right size" every shop seems to use an arbitrary set of measurements and decide to nominate them as a size. No 2 shops are the same and I just don't … [Read More...]