With a long bank holiday weekend on it's way - and another one shortly after - there can often be a pressure to go out and enjoy it by drinking all day and partying all night. Unfortunately for me, even this soon since payday I'm not wholly convinced my bank account can stretch to a... Continue Reading →

The Body Shop - Vitamin E Gentle Facial Wash £7.50 - I had been using the Clinique foaming face wash and was running low, knowing how much I liked the seaweed scrub I decided to give this a try. As my skin can be blemish-prone at times, I like to use a gentle face wash to... Continue Reading →

I thought I had done yoga before. I thought I was somewhat good at it so I decided to give community yoga a try and this is what I found... I am terrible at yoga I am not very flexible I'm determined to get better at yoga I live in an excellent community (but I... Continue Reading →

Ever since I found out Andrew Scott was playing Hamlet I knew I had to get my hands on tickets - I was on a train to Paris FYI - so when a quick google told me it was all sold out I was devastated. Now, had we have not moved to London that would... Continue Reading →

Room 101  That Thing on a Friday Night Tim Vine Travels in Time  Taskmaster  Unspun with Matt Forde  John Bishop in Conversation With...  Jason Manford's Big Heads  Your Face or Mine  The Unbelievable Truth  You'd be forgiven for thinking I'd decided to list all my favourite TV/radio shows, but these are all the things I... Continue Reading →

I've decided to take a slight change on my blog this week. So no Northern thriftiness here today... You may have seen the various articles that have been making the news rounds slamming fitbit and other step counting apps and if you haven't, have a delightful read of one here I have been a very... Continue Reading →

My social media feeds and phone notifications are a great source of inspiration for me to get out and explore. Just this weekend we were able to complete a treasure hunt inside a museum thanks to a post we'd seen online (I'll be blogging about that later.) So I want to take you through my... Continue Reading →

It's certainly no secret that the North/South divide is a "thing", the location map for Waitrose will show you that, so when I proudly skipped around my hometown of Wakefield in October smugly revealing I was moving to "The City" I wasn't surprised to be met with the "oh I could never move to such... Continue Reading →