Every year, we ask ourselves in our house, “should we have a real or fake Christmas tree?” and we have gone down both roads with fake and also real trees. I personally prefer a real tree, but during Covid lockdowns and chaos we bought a fake tree online to use because it felt like an […]
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With Christmas just around the corner, as you decorate, cook, and celebrate, here are some essential tips to keep your home safe during the Christmas festivities. *This post may contain affiliate links, which if you click through to, and make a purchase, will earn me a small amount of revenue. They are clearly marked with […]
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This is a collaborative post with Poster My Wall, sharing some tools and tips for planning, if like me, you work in social media and find Christmas content and planning needs a bit more organising and time management. Christmas is my favourite time of the year, and it’s busy, and full of fun and also […]
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We all love our pets and at Christmas time it’s no exception that we want them to be part of the fun and festivities but your pets and Christmas decorations may not be a good partnership. Read our “tail” of woe and tinsel to learn about how we realised that Christmas decorations may not be […]
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I love Christmas, I love all things Christmas. But there is one thing I will ask, nay, I will plead, in fact I will stamp my feet and refuse to take part in… Please don’t make me do Secret Santa. Bah humbug. Don’t add me to a Secret Santa as part of any group. No […]
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Sharing a festive guest post by By Erik Wolf, Executive Director, World Food Travel Association about Christmas Bites and Beverages from Around the Globe When we consider Christmas foods, we tend to look to countries with a Christian tradition, so while Christmas might be celebrated by many people in Africa, the Middle East or Asia, […]
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We are delighted to be collaborating with a group of lovely bloggers for The Great Festive Giveaway 2021 bringing you a bundle of goodies worth over £700 to brighten up your Christmas. There is something for everyone and lots of brands have also helped us bring this to you. 2020 has been a challenging year […]
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and Christmas is coming fast, so I thought I would share our family Christmas traditions, some old, some newer, some passed down and some we started ourselves. I love Christmas. We have has a couple of challenging ones but we mostly try to make them fun, enjoyable […]
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This is a rant. Look away now if you haven’t had enough coffee, tea or gin to cope with me telling you that if you are feeling bah humbug about people wanting to put their Christmas decorations up early then you need to pipe down. It’s that time of the year. We all know Christmas […]
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas round here. Sort of. November has been all sorts of challenging, with Covid and recovery from Covid. We decided we needed to end the month with something happy so the tree is going up this weekend. We normally have a real tree and put it up in […]
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