Instagram: Oh hiiiii @the_idle_hands! How are you? Sandra: Hello Instagram! I’m really well, thanks, muddling along and all that. You’ve been quite busy lately haven’t you? Instagram: Lol, yeah! I’ve hardly slept, I’m so busy thinking up new and innovative…
It’s official. The clocks went forward last weekend, the evenings are getting lighter, it’s happening. Spring has sprung and how very welcome it is. I’m going to gloss over the fact I had to do an emergency dig for lightweight…
On reflection, the 162 gift suggestions I made across my 3 gifts guides (here, here and here) were a bit female focused. This is because they were essentially lists of things I like and I am a girl. Lady. Woman.…
Reinforce the sleigh, Santa! Put Rudolph on an intensive weightlifting regime! It’s time for the Big One – it’s the over £50 gift list. Once again, it is essentially a list of things I would like. In fact, I own…
Let’s talk novelty gifts. You know the sort, the “amusing” books (one year, in the knowledge that we were (and are) an anti-Brexit family, we got 3 copies of “Five Go To Brexit Island”, a Famous Five parody), the joke…
I think we can legitimately talk about Christmas now, without anyone getting their knickers too twisted. I’m going to assume your inbox is like mine and you’re currently buried deep beneath an avalanche of emails entitled “PRE-PRE BLACK FRIDAY DEALS,…
We blinked and it’s November. We’ve Hallowe’ened, the pumpkins have collapsed into a fetid pile of mush, and we’ve overdosed on the kids’ trick or treat Haribo haul (just me?). Now what? I know many people for whom, on the…
Sing with me! 🎶 It’s the most wonderful time of the year 🎶 ….. it’s AnthroDay! The blessed day which comes around every couple of months, when Anthropologie has 20% off everything. Well, almost everything. Some items are excluded (boo,…
There has been a hiatus between the last Friday Phwoar and this one. Summer intervened. However, it is back. Back again. Phwoar is back. Tell a friend. Unfortunately, the whizzy little plug-in I usually use to create the Friday Phwoar…