UncommonGoods.com – 11 gifts you need in your life #spon
I was fishing around in my junk email folder last week – as you do, you’ll find some crackers in there – and I came across an email about writing a post for UncommonGoods.com. Hmmm, […]
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The Great Big LadyNicci Giveaway – How to Enter
It’s been on my mind for a quite a while to do a giveaway on LadyNicci blog. I toyed with a few ideas – buying a voucher or a hamper or something that looks nice […]
Duffy’s Toyworld – why we need to look beyond the chain store
Black Friday, dark by name, bright by shopping enthusiast nature, takes place next week. It’s another American phenomenon to land on our European shores that we are only too happy to lap up, take part […]
Favourite Christmas memories. What are yours?
I find myself getting very nostalgic around this time of year. I have thirty years of memories built up. (I’m knocking off the first two years because try as I might, there are just no […]
Four ways your Christmas toys affect the rest of your life
Let’s get this out of the way first. This post will mostly be about Sylvanian families. This is because: I LOVE them They were the only toys I ever really got for Christmas I LOVE […]
A House and A Home
I was only homeless once in my life. It lasted about a week. Technically we weren’t homeless at all, but we were living in a hostel and I hated it. We’d landed in Sydney, Australia […]
Loneliness in the making
There is a man who stands at the side of the road every morning on my way to work. Sometimes he has a cup in both hands. He works in a car wash located in […]
The truth about Santa Claus and some Christmas’ past
It’s funny how Christmas springs up on you. There you are wiping the dust off the Halloween cobwebs and surveying the damage done by trick or treaters to your sweets press, when you turn around […]