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Cardiff

My October

I LOVE October.  I think it’s my favourite Autumn month because the winter gloom hasn’t quite descended yet, it’s not too cold (gottta love those crisp and sunny October mornings and final bursts of summer), there are still a few flowers and the trees start to turn… oh, and Halloween, obviously!  🙂

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Everything Else Shopping

5 Tried, Tested & True Skincare Products

Now that I’m 30, I can safely say I’ve been around the block when it comes to skincare.  I suffered with pretty bad acne during my teens (and I mean sobbing at the Doctors, bad…) and during my 20s I went through a fair share of raspberry-faced allergic reactions after being duped into buying every high-end, cure-all, must-have product […]

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Cardiff

*Escape Reality

I completely forgot what Cardiff is like on a Saturday night.  To be fair, I think the last time I went “out” in Cardiff you could still drive down St Mary’s Street and Oceana was still around.  Ho yes, it’s been a while.  But this time, instead of the whole drinks, drunk-dancing, dirty burger routine we […]

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Cardiff

Hello Autumn

I can’t believe we’re already over halfway through October – which means that almost a year has passed since moving back home to Cardiff.  It’s crazy, in some ways it feels like we’ve been here forever and yet in other ways it still feels like we’ve only just arrived.  I mean yeah, there are still a fair […]

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Food

Mars Bar & Walnut Brownies

No apologies here; this time of year all I want to do is curl up in a baggy hoodie and pjs and eat things that are warm and gooey and ideally full of chocolate.  Brownies tick all those boxes, and yeah, the regrets will probably kick in when jumper season is over, but… Nope.  I changed […]