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Pretty storage solutions from The Basket Company
The Basket Company is a brand that offers a range of storage solutions that can help you organise your home and possessions, whether you are sorting children’s toys, books and magazines, or even your more girly possessions. I was recently offered the opportunity to review some of their products and I decided that sometimes, you really need to sort the small stuff. So I chose a couple of very pretty, girlie products that I would use to organise some of my own things properly. The Basket Company, as you can probably guess from the name, is primarily concerned with a range of high quality basketware, but they also have other…
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How Road Safety savvy are your kids?
A true story. A couple of years ago my family spent some time in Wales. It was gorgeously sunny and we were spending most of our days at the beach and having late suppers. One evening we decided to get chips and burgers for dinner and popped to Dolgellau – a nearby town. The pavements were very narrow and so we had to walk in single file – I had Joe in front of me. Suddenly the pavement stopped altogether on our side of the road, and Joe, seeing a pavement on the other side, instinctively just ran into the road to cross over. I froze and just screamed, which…
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One Man, Two Guvnors, Lots of Laughs
The famed National Theatre production of ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ arrived in Wolverhampton last night at the Grand Theatre, and delivered laughs by the bucketload. This funny, irreverent and often rude masterpiece promised a sort of pantomime for grown-ups, and that was exactly what the audience got. I’m fairly sure a lady sitting behind me literally screamed with laughter – yes, it was that funny. One Man, Two Guvnors starts with an engagement party in Brighton. Unfortunately this one has been hijacked after the intended, prospective bridegroom Roscoe was stabbed to death. Still, the sausage rolls have been ordered so why waste a perfectly good party reasons Charlie the Duck…
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Buying Our First Super King Size Mattress
Over the years our family size has grown, the one thing that is still the same however is our mattress. We purchased our double mattress many years ago, and today I decided that it was time to upgrade to a better and bigger mattress. I was going to make this a simple purchase, hit the internet, find a mattress online, make the purchase and enjoy our new mattress. What I wasn’t expecting was the huge amount of mattress retailers online. With so many to choose from, I was already getting overwhelmed that this was going to be much more of a challenge than I had anticipated. I stumbled onto…
