Category: Honest Life
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New Year 2019
Just a quick word from me before the end of the year. Life is an open road and each year is what you make it. I’ve been visiting the North recently. Climbing hills. This hill below was once a coal pit heap and now it’s a wonderful pine forest. Old dogs can learn new tricks.…
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Eco Christmas
Dear Santa This year I would like an #ecochristmas with #ethicalgifts no chain stores no multinationals absolutely No Amazon! I’m going to #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopethical and #shophonest and I promise to use #lessplastic and #shopsustainable and #charityshop and #preloved and whenever I can #revive #reuse and #recycle. Can you spread the word Santa? And let’s…
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Tumeric Tea Tonic
Well hello there, Its been a while. Summer and other work stuff just got in the way. However I’ve freed up my diary for the next couple of months to bring you at least one post a week. As it’s started to turn cold outside I’ve begun to look after myself inside. Now I love…
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My Volunteering Story
Summer 2015 was quite a stressful time for me I was working as a Fashion PR, juggling the commute from Brighton to London with major fashion events and clients. I was also working with my husband trying to save our men’s accessories company in quite a volatile department store market. That Summer was also our…
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Top Five tips on Beating the January Blues
January can be a funny time, the high of Christmas and New Year can result in the January blues. Partying and revelling can mean crashing with a bang in Jan. With every up must come a down. I’ve never been a fan of January. Oh no, cold and dark and depressing, its my least favourite…
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Warming your Winter home
The last days of November can be bleak, it can also be so incredibly beautiful. Clear bright skies but very cold nights. December marks the beginning of Winter, so digg those woollies out! This time of year you can turn on the central heating but what truly warms your home is the little touches of…
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Sunday Supplement #41 |Garden Life
I think I speak for the whole country when I say thank the Lord for the sun this week. After a devastating start to the week with events in Manchester, I think everyone spent the beginning of the week feeling sad and slightly down. I suffer from anxiety and any sort of sad news can work as…
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Sunday Supplement #40 – The Other Room
Last weekend I had some of my best friends come to visit, delighted to have visitors I set about sorting the spare room and ‘the other room’. The spare room was not difficult, my parents stay with us a lot, quick sweep, change of linen, done. To properly accommodate my friend her husband and two children…
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Sunday Supplement #39
Hello! How are you all for a Sunday? I had a couple of days off this week with Mr. B, no holiday, no time abroad or even an overnight hotel stay. Instead, we opted for a staycation, that’s right a week at home in the Boston Abode, time to reset, recharge and do all the jobs…
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Sunday Supplement #38
I’m not too fond of Halloween to be honest. I think it’s all got too big and American and over the top. Two entire rows in Tesco were given up to Halloween-themed costumes, plastic pumpkins, and treats. When I was young I’d never seen a pumpkin, well maybe in an American movie? No, we carved Turnips,…
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Sunday Supplement #36
A couple of weeks ago over dinner with friends, I was introduced to the Danish idea of ‘Hygge’. Now I knew the Danes have an amazing sense of style but I knew nothing of this Scandi coated lifestyle nonsense. Over dinner, I learned it’s the way the Danes get through the cold dark winter by restoring…
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Sunday Supplement #34
Happy Bank Holiday! Can it be the last bank holiday of the year? Possibly the end of Summer? I’ve had a lovely long weekend. I’ve gone a little green. I styled some hydrangeas for my friend’s wedding. I’ve reorganised my garden and my shed(s). I’ve pruned picked and potted herbs, ferns and my new favourite succulents.…
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Sunday Supplement #33
I’m going to share a Sunday secret with you! Since opening last Summer, I’ve spent many a Sunday in West Sussex’s best kept secret, Perch on Lancing Beach. Lancing is one of those towns that you go through to get to somewhere else like Worthing. Since we moved West of Brighton a couple of years ago…
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Sunday Supplement #32
Some things in life are sacred. For women, happy home, happy family, happy work. For men ditto. For women nice shoes, nice clothes, nice bags. For men nice shoes, nice clothes, nice watches. For Me good food, good wine, amazing book. For Mr B good food, good wine and a BMW??? So Mr B is…
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Sunday Supplement #31
How glorious has the sun been today? We were all at home today in what seems like weeks of doing different things. We decided to walk over to our beach and catch a bit of this year’s Brighton Marathon. A week of doing other things here and there, Brighton, Shoreham, London makes home seem so…