There's something elegant about a good manicure. But if I'm completely honest, my at home jobs are never as nice as I'd like them to be. So I've never really attempted any kind of nail art with any great success. I also think that a lot of nail design is really OTT. Enter Nail Wraps. …
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In 20's and 30's Barcelona, David Martin is a teenager whose father has died, and who works in a newspaper office. When his short stories make the back page, he's launched on a career as a writer of lurid, crowd pleasing fiction, but he has a dream of writing something more literary. While he makes …
In the heart of London's historic East End, where the streets are still cobbled, and Jack The Ripper walking tours wander the night, one of London's most eccentric museum experiences is hidden behind the doors of 18 Folgate Street. There is no sign outside to tell you what's within, so you could mistakenly walk past …
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London's Victoria and Albert Museum is one of my favourite places in London. Locally known as the V&A, it's one of this city's free museums, so you can just wander in whenever you feel and take a look around. The building itself is incredible, and houses a huge collection of objects, with a focus on …
A bright and swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, Fletcher's Fortune is a historical and fictional memoir of Jacob Fletcher. This book was sent to me by Endevour Press for honest review. All opinions are my own. As an apprentice, orphaned Jacob Fletcher should not be able to be press ganged into the Navy by …
There's nothing like painted toes sinking into the sand to tell you that Summer is here. But whether you're headed to the ultimate beach destination or enjoying a staycation this year, I've found this years best shades and even better, I'm giving them away! Enter below to win! Click HERE to enter! The three …
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Over the last few months, I've picked up a few items from French brand Caudalie, and since I'm really happy with them, I wanted to share this brand and my product trials with you. (Though I love this brand, this is not a sponsored post, just a beauty haul and trial of products) I love …
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Irene Nylander lives in Finland with her evil mother in law and her distant husband. Alone on her 50th birthday, she hits an all time low when she spots her best friend and her husband canoodling in a restaurant. When she wishes that she was dead, she accidently inspires a practical joking angel to intervene …
Continue reading The Thousand Tiny Miracles Of Living Twice by Katarina West
Just off Leicester Square in London, and down a bit, there's a fancy door with three busts over the door. They are the figures of the biographers and historians who founded the museum housed inside, a museum whose patron is the Duchess of Cambridge, and which houses only one kind of painting, in a multitude …
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In Zoe Heller's introduction to this novel, she makes the point that people either love or hate a Mitford novel. I wonder if that's really true? The Mitford sisters grew up in a rag tag bundle, on a manor in England, the children of Upper Class parents, in the early part of last century. Nancy, …
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