Posts by KatieP

PACKING BY PROCESS

The documents have been signed, the contracts have been exchanged, the time has come to get everything ready for the big day. Popular wisdom dictates that moving can be one of the more stressful life experiences. If you’re looking to minimise that stress, then take a look at our handy checklist, to make sure the big day goes off without a hitch. Tick off all these boxes and you can

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HOW AFFORDABLE ARE YOUR HOUSING PLANS?

We all have plans to own our homes one day, even if we never think it’s going to quite be possible! We have those kinds of dreams in our heads where we own a house and invite our friends and family over at least once a week to have a big garden party, and in all of those dreams, we’re really happy with our lives! But do those dreams have

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IS IT TIME YOU HAD THE BOUDOIR YOU DESERVE?

Your house is your own personal place to do pretty much whatever you want with. As long as you’re not impeding the wants and needs of anyone else, you can customize and shake-up the different aspects of your home to your heart’s content. We all have the freedom to personalize things and play around with our homes, but we tend to just go with something and stick with it. That

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BLUESTONE WALES REVIEW

Back in March, we enjoyed a five day break at Bluestone Wales – a National Park Resort that prides itself on offering free range holidays and short breaks. And bar my youngest child Leo coming down with an unexpected bout of chicken pox whilst we were away, all in all, we had a ‘wales’ of a time. Here’s what we loved about Bluestone Wales and why I would genuinely recommend

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THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN YOU’RE FREELANCING FROM HOME

I’ve been freelancing now for nearly a decade and during this time, I’ve mostly spent it working from home. I did dabble with occupying a desk in a shared office for around a year or so, but in the end, found that working from home was preferable and also much easier for me. It isn’t however always a breeze. And as appealing and as wonderful home working definitely is, there

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FIVE THINGS WOMEN NEED TO STOP DOING

Us women are great. Like truly bloody great. We are powerful, empathic, beautiful beings. We create life and we bring it into the world. We nurture, we protect and we give. But we’re also vulnerable and often far too forgetful of our worth and resistant to the power that lies within us. If you’re reading this today and are perhaps feeling a bit low, confused or just not at your

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THE END OF BABY DAYS

It’s officially the end. The baby days are over. Just over a week ago I stopped breastfeeding my youngest child Leo, now 2 years and 3 months of age and I realised that that was that. There will never again be ‘boobs on demand’. Never again a newborn of my own to gaze at with the utter devotion and outpouring of love that only a new life can bring. Never

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GETTING OFF SCREENS AND OUTDOORS

Most children today have a tablet, hand-held games console or larger console. From around 10, many children even have their own mobile phones. They use their devices to speak to their friends, to play games and to watch videos online. It’s thought that children as young as two and three are spending two hours every day online. Some time on online can be good for our children. It teaches them

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