Calm Your Beans

Our Queen has just finished making her very important speech! So did you watch it? This year’s speech was considerably shorter than normal. She mentioned roughly 15 bills but under previous governments she would often discuss around 40. There was a bit of commotion before the Queen’s Speech when Dennis Skinner comes out with his traditional quip: Skinner goes with [...]

The crowds are lining the streets as the Queen and Prince Philip visit Exeter today as part of the Royal Diamond Jubilee celebration tour of the UK. Events and performances have been going on since 9am to entertain the people already waiting patiently for her to arrive. We could hear the bands playing and live [...]

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 [...]

Buying birthday presents can be very difficult and extremely stressful, especially if you don’t know the person very well or alternatively you know the person too well and you have already bought them everything you can think of! I always think it will be helpful to look online but searching for ‘unique birthday gift ideas’ [...]

Age is a funny thing. You get people in their twenties who start shopping for slippers and cardigans at the sight of their first grey hair, and you also get ladies in their nineties bungee jumping off the side of a bridge. People are living longer, fuller, healthier lives, and this is good news to [...]

There are thousands of surprise proposals captured online. They’re perfect for feel-good, real-life romance. They sometimes bring a little tear to your eye. Recently I’ve discovered another online surprise video phenomenon, the “We’re Pregnant!” surprise. I stumbled across one the other day that a mummy-friend of mine had posted on Facebook. It surprised me that [...]

I’m not really a religious person, but somehow Easter is still one of my favourite holidays. I think this is due to a combination of several important factors: Spring kicking in and the weather improving. A double whammy of bank holidays meaning a 4 day weekend. Spending time with all the family. Giving and getting [...]

Easter is the key holiday in the Christian calendar but there is much more apart from decorating eggs and churchgoing. We’ve prepared a list of Easter traditions around the world, keep on reading and discover what Northern Spaniards drink during this holiday and why the Norwegians read detective stories in Easter. Spain Easter celebrations in [...]

She may have only been a mother for a few days, or maybe she’s been waiting nearly a year for this special day. A first-time-mum’s first Mother’s Day is a significant and memorable event.

Today marks the day that The Encyclopedia Britannica is going out of print. The once hallowed books of knowledge have been swept away by the digital world’s need for information at our finger tips.