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What If Your Afternoon Slump Has Nothing To Do With Coffee?
We bet you know this feeling: it’s 2 P.M., and suddenly your energy falls as if you’ve been awake for days instead of just hours. Most people blame sugar, lack of sleep, or too much screen time. While those factors matter a lot, there’s at least one more reason you might feel so tired – your chair. Upgrading to a new ergonomic home office chair can really help by providing the support your body needs to stay focused all day. Without proper support, your muscles tense up, your back slouches, and your brain has to work harder just to keep you sitting upright. What really happens to your body during…
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How To Make More Sustainable Choices For Your Wedding
Planning a wedding comes with a lot of decisions, and increasingly, couples are thinking about what happens beyond the day itself. You might love the idea of a big celebration but feel less enthusiastic about buying decorations you’ll use once. Making your wedding more sustainable is about being a little more considered with what you buy, who you work with and where your money goes, while still creating a day that feels your own. Choose a venue and suppliers that share your values Your venue can influence how far your guests need to travel, which suppliers you can use and how much additional decor you need to bring in. Look…
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One Tiny Penguin Is Coming Soon
One Tiny Penguin is the third show in Birmingham Hippodrome’s My First Musical series, following the 5-star hits No Such Thing As Wolves and The Jingleclaw. The My First Musical Series is designed to bring the youngest viewers into the theatre, with shows that are bright and colourful, shorter than an average show, and taking place in the smaller, more intimate Patrick Centre, making them perfect for family viewing. I went to the launch event for this show earlier this month and can confirm it look like absolutely adorable Christmas fun. It has singalong songs that are perfect for little ones, and the penguin himself, Lumi, is absolutely gorgeous, and…
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Win! Tickets To The Festive Gift Fair 2026
With the clocks now turned right the way back and the dark nights officially here, we are truly on the countdown to Christmas, and so is the perfect opportunity to start think about your Christmas shopping. One of my own favourite ways to stock for both Christmas Decor and gift ideas is at the Festive Gift Fair, which takes place this year at Birmingham’s NEC from the 19th to 22nd November. The Festive Gift Fair The Festive Gift Fair is a bit of a Brummy Christmas tradition, one of those landmark events that herald the start of the festive season. (It falls the same weekend as the start of the…
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Getting Dressed Again: Small Style Rituals, Self-Esteem And Starting Over
There’s a particular kind of wardrobe that belongs to a hard year. The same two pairs of leggings on rotation. Oversized jumpers chosen because they hide things. Make-up untouched in a drawer, jewellery tangled in a dish. Nobody plans it. It just happens when life gets difficult and getting dressed stops feeling like it matters. For anyone coming out of a rough patch, whether that’s illness, grief, burnout or recovery from drinking or drug use, rediscovering an interest in how you look can be one of the first quiet signs that something is shifting. Call it vanity if you like, but more often it’s self-esteem slowly coming back online, and…
