Calm Your Beans

Have you ever sat around and thought: “I don’t want my funeral to be a sad affair, I want people to laugh and have fun” ? Well Crazy Coffins is here to help! If you drank a little to much wouldn’t it be funny to be buried in a beer bottle? These caskets are usually [...]

The award winning, target beating, record setting blockbuster Avengers Assemble is still going strong in cinemas all across the country. Guess what, it’s setting a style trend, it figures right? If you haven’t heard of the Avengers (which is pretty doubtful), it’s a about an international peace keeping agency (S.H.I.E.L.D) managed by Nick Fury. The [...]

Okay, I’ll admit it straight off the bat: I’m far from a perfect driver myself. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that if you were to follow me around for the day – I’m in the awkwardly effeminate sky blue Polo if you want to put the theory to the test – [...]

As we head into the month of May we can cross our fingers for better weather, plans can be made for summer holidays and the majority of us enjoyed a bank holiday. We wanted to look at what else we can look forward to in the coming month and there’s a lot on from marathons [...]

Hello girls! Sometimes when it all gets a bit much, you just have to take a day and a night out of the normal 9-5 and spend some time with your girlies. Today I’m blogging about ideas on how you can get spend a whole day with your girls… If you all have the day [...]

So… whilst I’ve been busy packing my suitcases and preparing to move in my with partner next week it has occurred to me that in the last six months I have been living entirely as an adult. A real, fully fledged adult with a flat and bills to pay and a real grown up job [...]

On Monday it will be St George’s day. St George is of course the patron saint of England. Patriotism has not always been strong in the English Character, but in recent years the appeal of celebrating St George’s day has been growing. Strangely St George’s day is not a public holiday in England, although there [...]

Every now and then there is a city in the world that seems to churn out a statistically improbable number of great bands, think of New York in the late 70’s, Seattle in the late 80’s Manchester in the early 90’s and Glasgow at the start of the new millennium. When these geographical musical events [...]

If you are a big fan of dressing up then the Easter Bonnet Parade in New York is where you want to be this Easter Sunday! On Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012, the folks lucky enough to find themselves in New York City have the chance to witness the madness of the Easter Bonnets parade. [...]

As you can probably tell everyone in the Calm Your Beans office is getting very excited about Easter, and it’s not just because of the bank holiday and the excuse to eat chocolate…honest! There are plenty of other fun things to do to enjoy the Easter weekend. With games to be played, crafts to make [...]