Parenting Skills

Spring cleaning: 6 tips on how to keep your home limescale free

As a nation that’s renowned for loving a hot brew, the winter months are key for the use of hot water. Household appliances and plumbing are under more pressure with limescale lurking and becoming a nuisance.Once hard water is heated it creates a chalky off-white crust that creates limescale that is hard to clean off and makes appliances look tired and worn. Limescale can be found in…
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Get Creative

Ways to promote your music during a pandemic 

2020 has been a weird year. With most of us working from home, our time hasbeen spentjuggling ourordinaryday-to-day working liveswhile managing our children’sschool day.Eventscancelled left andright, andwith the return to normality sometime off yet; it canbehardto think back to a time beforethe…
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Fashion & Beauty

Stress relieving beauty essentials

It’s safe to say that 2020 was a year of unexpected twists and turns. As we find ourselves in a new lockdown, it’s no surprise that stress and anxiety levels are at an all-time high. Google searches for anxiety in recent months have skyrocketed and a new year turn is the perfect time to address the causes of stress and find ways to help us manage it effectively. Taking the time to treat…
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Get Creative

How Journaling has changed my life

It is now well known that keeping a daily journal has health benefits. Journaling includes writing down our spontaneous thoughts as and when they spring to mind. It’s one of the simplest habits we can develop, but which has lots of positive effects in our lives. Here I have listed some of benefits of journaling that I have noticed over time. Getting to know myself better By…
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Shopping Guides

A Brief Shopping Guide for Pet Supplies

Shopping has its perks, but it can also be quite overwhelming at times. You may think that this won’t apply to pets because of their simplicity, but you would be wrong to think so. In fact, since animals have little to no idea regarding what’s good for them and can’t express even the very little that they do know by instinct, shopping for pets can be tricky! If you are a new pet owner, then…
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Competitions

Win 1 of 2 DVDs of Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob

Go back in time to the mythical castled city of Camelot in Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob arriving on DVD 22nd February and Digital on 23rd February 2021. To celebrate this release, we are giving two lucky winners the chance to get their hands on a copy of the DVD. Take a journey back in time to King Arthur’s court in this legendary saga of wizards, knights, dragons…and Scooby-Doo! An…
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Fitness & Health

Tips on how to combat stress that challenges intimacy 

In our regular column by the Love Coach we have covered relationships and intimacy a lot. Unsurprisingly, stress plays an important role in our love life and can seriously compromise intimacy. It’s important to identify the sources of that stress to figure out how to resolve issues that are in the way of a fulfilling relationship. This blog aims to explore the causes to find solutions.
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Childcare

Guilt-free and flexible child care

When parents are expected to homeschool, work and carry their families through a pandemic, undoubtedly, emotions run high. Corinna Bordoli and I (Léa Henry) are on a mission to reduce that burden through guilt-free and flexible child care arrangements while supporting the creative sector which is among the most affected in the current crisis. As many artistic projects have been halted during this…
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Movies

Future Films Heads Up: Disney’s Cruella out on 28 May 2021

I am so excited about the forthcoming release of Disney’s Cruella planned for 28 May 2021. Fingers crossed this will go ahead. The trailer looks so good and Emma Stone in the punk role version of Cruella de Vil, the super villain in classic 101 Dalmatians,seems perfect. Emma Stone’s big puppy eyes combined with the cruel grim dictated by the character as well as the…
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