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Top 5 Afternoon Teas in London

England is famous for our quintessentially English Afternoon Teas and London certainly has an abundance of venues for you to visit. We have chosen our top five Afternoon Teas to help make your decision a little easier! The Ritz The Ritz is probably the best known Afternoon Tea venue in the world! It opened back in 1906, and received an Award of Excellence in The…

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How to Find Wedding Bands You’ll Both Love Forever *

Since your wedding ring is one of the few pieces of jewellery you are likely to shop for together and possibly wear for the rest of your lives, it is a good idea to make a few choices before you even set foot in a store. Do you want the band to be the same metal as the engagement ring? Would he prefer the metal…

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Enjoy the Great British Summer

Whether it’s a staycation or a family day out, make the most of the Great British Summer with Days Out and Short Breaks at fantastic prices from Buyagift.com. I’ve selected a few of their suggestions to put together my top three choices… The View from The Shard with 3 Course Michelin Dining and Bubbles for Two. Only recently built and already an integral part of…

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My Top 5 Weekend Breaks

As some of you know I will be in Marbella by the time you read this and it got me thinking about where I’ve really loved travelling to over the years and thought I’d share them with you! Barcelona… Barcelona is one of my favourite places, hands down. I’ve been so many times and always feel the need to go back! Visiting Nou Camp is…

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Camping with Yelloh! *

When is comes to camping I’d like to think we’re seasoned professions, having camped at around 20 festivals between us and myself going on a camping trip to France with the family and friends when I was about 11 years old. So when Yelloh! Village asked me to share some camping tips I thought, “You’ve come to the right people!” One thing that Mike swears…

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The Botanist, Manchester *

When the chap and I headed up to Manchester at the start of the month we dined in style on our first night at The Botanist in Deansgate. The Botanist had been recommended by a blogger buddy that lives nearby so we thought why not?! I think everywhere we ate and drunk over the weekend was recommended to me over Twitter and we had some…

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Bellavita Expo *

On Sunday we headed over to The Design Centre in Islington for the Bellavita Expo. We were treated to a Prosecco breakfast by the event sponsors, Villa Sandi, and got to try award winning chocolate, panettone and plenty of other sweet treats. To work off our sugar rush we took a wander around the stalls to try more Italian goodness and it didn’t take us long…

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Homely Delights *

If you read my blog regularly then you will know I’m a total sucker for homewares and quirky ones do it best for me. So when I Just Love It got in contact, I sure as hell wasn’t going to say no to them! I had a little nosey around the site and my wishlist was pretty darn huge… but I narrowed it down to…

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I'm Squibb Vicious, better known as Haydy!
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