When I got an email inviting me down to Milton Keynes to go indoor skydiving with Red Letter Days, I was really excited. I’d never done anything like that before and it looked like a lot of fun. I’ve always wanted to do something a bit more ‘extreme’ but have…

I must admit that I’ve never been a runner – even at school I was always lagging behind everyone else and I hated it. However, I did go through a stint when I was at uni where I thought I could possibly start running. I got myself a pair of…

My cat Bertie is absolutely spoilt and has been since he arrived here almost four years ago. After sharing our lives with another cat for 19 years, we knew that we needed to provide him with something to scratch to protect our furniture. When he was a tiny kitten, I…

The run up to Christmas can be so stressful, for many different reasons. Trying to organise Christmas events, buying presents and trying to afford it all can take a lot out of you. It is so important that we all take some time out of our busy schedules to relax…

One of my favourite things about autumn is all of the great candle scents that are released. There’s nothing like curling up with a book in an evening and burning some autumnal candles. To me, candles are a year round thing. I always have some sort of candle or a…

Throughout the years, television has played a big part in my life. I remember what it was like to only have 4 channels and how big of a deal it was when a fifth arrived. We didn’t spend a lot of time watching TV when I was young, it was…

Are you wondering if you should go and see American Idiot The Musical? If you were an emo teenager in 2004, then Green Day’s American Idiot was probably one of the most played on your mp3 player. Personally, I had just got into rock music (Muse, Evanescence and Placebo were…