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Lunch at Herman Ze German *

When it comes to lunches I like it to be quick, fun and filling so I can return to the office full and happy, so Herman ze German on Charlotte Street was the perfect place for this! Herman ze German founders Florian and Azadeh moved to Brighton from the Black Forest in 2005. After realising the lack of their beloved bratwurst sausages in the UK,…

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Six Low Carb Veg-Swaps

To avoid heavily processed, nutrient depleted carb over the summer, try getting your carbs and fibre from the abundant veg that summer brings.  Here are a few quick and easy ideas that are on my list of healthy eating bits to try: Cauliflower rice A veg packed Thai curry can be light enough for summer but a filling meal too. If a plate of brown…

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Sharing A Smile *

When you receive an email from a brand asking you if you want to be secretly paired up with another blogger and send each other gifts, you obviously say yes! And this is exactly what happened when Getting Personal dropped us an email of that nature! I chose to gift the lovely Lottie L’amour and after lots of stalking, I wandered over to the Getting Personal website…

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Running a Marathon after Injury *

As you all know, last year I completed my biggest achievement, the London Marathon and I’ve gone bloody mental in deciding to do it again next year. My poor knees gave way in training last year and I was told to totally cut down my training and to run the marathon very cautiously as to not do any more damage. On the day of the…

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Living Life on Your Own Terms *

One of the great things about this hi tech world in which we live is the fact that you can do or be just about anything you want to as long as you have a passion and a drive to succeed. Whilst most people do get a bit of experience having worked for someone else, if you come up with an awesome idea that no…

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Healthy Snacking *

I’ve began starting my diet out in order to shift some weight, I’m 5lbs down but still have a good 20lbs or so to go still; I eat salads, no carbs after lunch and lots of protein. Where I slack in snacking, I can’t help myself when it comes to crisps or the odd naughty piece of chocolate, so I’ve decided to pick three really…

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Starting a Scrapbook

As you will all know, I’m a sucker for a photograph and I still print photos at least twice a year so when the lovely team at Pen Heaven offered me a photo album I was like ‘Yes please, you delightful bunch!’ and this is what arrived… I love anything with my name on also but I don’t actually have much with Squibb Vicious on…

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Monkeying Around with Go Ape *

We are now on post three of our Oxford weekend, you can read about our car hire here, and our lovely hotel here, if you want to catch up. This post, as you can guess from the title is about Go Ape! So we drove from our flat to Wendover Woods which was around half way between us and Oxford, and as we hopped out…

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I'm Squibb Vicious, better known as Haydy!
Happiest with a craft beer in hand, eating til my heart is content or exploring somewhere new.
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