posts in Review

A DIY Festive Coffee Bar & Beanies Flavoured Coffee Review

Wednesday, 21 December 2016


Hey everyone! How are you? Have you finished work yet? Or are you keeping your head down until 5pm on Friday! I'm hoping to set my out of office tomorrow afternoon, but we shall see how the to do list is looking! Today is actually my sister - Mini J's -birthday so normally I'm all wrapped up in my Christmas PJs by now, but she is currently away in America for a year, so Christmas is already feeling a little different this year. No doubt the day itself will be filled with the same level of food but with much more skype time than ever before.

Hopefully, by now you've finished all the shopping, you may even have done your wrapping (I like leaving mine to Christmas eve) and now all that's left to do is eat all the mince pies and maybe add the finishing touches to your plans for the BIG DAY, which is exactly what today's post is about!

No doubt over the last month you've consumed your weight in festive coffees in red/knitted/boring blue (seriously - does anyone go to Cafe N?) take away cups, but if your house is anything like mine, your hot beverage intake is only set to increase over the next week! The kettle in our house barely ever gets chance to cool down (sorry environment) and that's even less likely to happen when we're all at home all day and guests are around. So this year instead of brushing up my waitress skills (jokes - there still on point from all those years) I've decided to create a DIY Festive Coffee Bar Station.

Review | Brunch at Albert Schloss...

Wednesday, 6 July 2016

My Favourite Date Spots in the North West...

Friday, 18 March 2016



Hey everyone! Happy Friday! How are you? I'm not going to lie, this hasn't been the best week for me. Unfortunately the funding didn't come through for the project I work on leaving me in a bit of an unstable position job wise, but I'll save that for a different post.

Today I wanted to share with you some of favourite places to go on a date in the North West. My stress and worry started waaaaaaaaaaay before this week, and I'd probably have lost my mind if it wasn't for some much needed adventuring and date day and nights with the young man. We haven't been able to book a proper holiday and that is on the back burner for the foreseeable future, so afternoons exploring new places and switching off in old favourites has been a big priority for me lately. I think date days are really important not just for romantic relationships but for friendships and families too. Sometimes we forget to carve out dedicated time just to be with people and spare time gets filled up with chores and any time we do spend together can be taken for granted, ending up in the same old places and doing the same old thing. So if this weekend you're in the North West and looking for something different or special to do, here are some of the places and ways to spend time together the young man and I love...

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