As non-essential shops in the UK reopen, it’s fascinating to see what the new normal on our high street and in our stores looks like. We’ve relied on the online space for the last few months, so what are our attitudes now? Will we be returning to the shops as normal to browse the rails and shelves, or will we stick to online orders from the safety of our sofas? There’s been no end of news stories for years that physical retail and the high street is suffering at the hands of online. Stores that we’ve known of for years have been slowly going into administration and disappearing from our…

‘I need to get my beauty sleep’. How many times have you said that exact statement when you gone off to bed, without thinking about what it means? We all know that a good night’s sleep is important, and that we spend around one third of our lifetime in bed, but are we really getting the best night’s sleep, and do we wake up and actually look refreshed, or do we look like we’ve been dragged through an edge sometime during the night. Calidad Home ask that question of us, and suggest that, if the answer is the later, you really need to be switching to a Mulberry silk pillowcase.…

For many people, there was excitement for the date when Primark would reopen. Primark has no online presence, so during lockdown, many of their affordable, essential lines, like pyjamas and children’s clothes, were not accessible, and this led to long queues on June 15th when the store reopened after a three month lockdown. I didn’t go into town on that date as it happened to be my birthday, and I really didn’t want to spend most of it in a queue, I waited until last week and went into Birmingham nice and early, as I knew the store was opening at 8 a.m. Joe’s school day has now been changed,…