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St Valentine’s Day – All The Facts
February 14th is well known as the special day for love and lovers. Yes, today is St Valentine’s Day, the day of slushy cards and greetings and cute teddy bears and chocolates. But why is this the case? Who even was St Valentine, and why is he considered the patron saint of all things love? And is it true that this most romantic of days was also the date of one of the most infamous gangster massacres of modern times? Photo by Mine Demirkurt: https://www.pexels.com/photo/valentine-s-day-teddy-bears-with-flowers-30693196/ Read on to find out. St Valentine – Why February 14th wasn’t the best day for him! St Valentine was a 3rd Century Roman priest.…
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Winter Warmers From Temu
It may be February, and Spring should be just around the corner, but frankly, it’s still cold. Freezing in fact, with most days barely into single figures temperature wise. Add in the fact that our heating bills are set to rise again due to the increase in the price cap, and it makes for a very bleak end of Winter. But fear not, Temu are here to help with the latest cold spell with their own brand of Winter warmers. This is a range of budget friendly products, for the home and for you, that are both cosy and warm, and also super stylish too. Temu are huge fans of…
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Love From A Stranger (1937)
Love from a Stranger is an early (1937), film adaptation of one of Agatha Christie’s short stories, Philomel Cottage. The short story told of a woman who wins quite a large amount of money on a French lottery. Intending to travel, she puts her flat up for rent, and is promptly swept off her feet by the handsome stranger who is interested in renting her flat. They marry and move to a idyllic cottage in the middle of nowhere, seemingly to live ‘happily ever after’ in a life of bliss. But her new husband is not all he seems, and has a few shocking secrets of his own. The film…
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Garden Furniture Essentials
One of the loveliest things about Spring and Summer is all the time we get to spend in our gardens. And whilst some of this time is dedicated to getting them spruce and ready for the season after the cold hardship of the Winter, so much more time is spent relaxing and enjoying our outdoor space, almost treating it as another room, an extension of our home. When it comes to garden furniture, we are really governed by the size of our space, for every person who has a hot tub, gazebo and complete dining suite, there is a garden that has just about enough space for a park bench.…
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Pride And Prejudice (Sort of)
I’m a huge fan of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’. I read the book over and over when I was a teen. I’ve watched pretty much every version, from Lawrence Olivier smouldering at Greer Garson, to Colin Firth in that wet tunic (sigh!). But, in all honesty, I have never, ever seen a version of Pride and prejudice like the one I watched at the Birmingham Rep last night. Frankly, I laughed until my sides hurt! Pride and prejudice (sort of) by Isobel McArthur is an absolute triumph. It tells the story of the Bennett sisters, and their formidable mother through the eyes of their servants, who see everything happen,…
