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No Time to Waste: Savvy Packing Strategies for a Quick Break
If you’re planning a weekend break, you’ve probably got relaxation on your mind—and that means you won’t want to drag around a heavy suitcase with you. But traveling lighter involves using some smart packing strategies so you only take exactly what you need and use up less space doing so. Here are some tips to get you started. Get Some Help from Your Hotel After you’ve booked your hotel, call up before you pack your bags and ask them if they can lend you anything once you arrive. Hotels will often do this for guests, usually when guests have forgotten essential items, but you can use it to plan ahead.…
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Making Pampering Plans For November
Another month has almost finished, as the year continues to fly by. October has been great fun, but November is always one of my favourite months of the year, as the countdown to Christmas truly begins. Christmas lights are switched on, Christmas markets arrive in town and everywhere has a very festive feel, which is perfect if, like me, you think it is the most wonderful time of the year. But Christmas can also be the a really stressful time, when the preparations and excitement can actually take a real toll, especially if you have young children with excitement levels at boiling point. So, November could be a time when…
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Crazy for You – Magical Entertainment at the Birmingham Hippodrome
From the opening notes of Gershwin’s sublime ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, you know that ‘Crazy For You’ is going to be something special. What you are not prepared for is just how wonderful a musical this is. It is warm and funny, witty and sparkling, full of classic one-liners, incredible, classic songs and memorable dance routines. And, in Tom Chambers, it has a 1930s matinee idol to rival Cary Grant for charm, and Charlie Chaplin for slapstick style comedy. The story is a mixture of backstage romance, mistaken identity and overcoming the odds. Bobby is a rich New Yorker who longs for a career on stage, and is trying to escape…
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Children’s Fashion Focus – River Island
There comes a time in every parent’s life when you realise that your child is growing up, like truly growing up. This is happening to me at the moment with my (not so little) boy. Joe will be nine Christmas, and has suddenly discovered fashion and aftershave. It’s scary for me as his mom, but very exciting in that Joe is suddenly more interested in shopping, and in places other than the sports shop. His latest discovery is River Island, which, has well as having a pretty amazing ladies collection this Autumn (I’m wearing River Island as I type this) now has a great children’s collection that goes from birth…
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5 Things every home must include in their holiday decor this year
It is that time of year again! Before long it will be time for Thanksgiving and then the Christmas decorations will promptly come out. Decorating your home for the holidays is a tradition that has been taking place in the US for decades. Families get excited about decorating the home together and it becomes a tradition that the young and old look forward to every single year. There is something about the holidays that brings a family closer and encourages them to give thanks for the great year that they had together as they prepare for another one to begin. Decorating one’s home for the holidays has been a tradition…
