Calm Your Beans

The start of a new year, is always a stressful time with loads going on and lack of funds in the bank account. So why not take some time out of your busy social schedule and look at these lovely image boards.

Christmas and New Year are over.  For many it’s a depressing step back to work with a sore head and slightly rounder belly. It’s a well-known fact/myth that January is the most depressing month of the year for many of us and back in 2005 a ‘scientist’ came up with a very controversial equation that [...]

We are on to the second day of our advent calender and the elves have been hard at work trying to find deals online that will help fill your Christmas stocking. As the Christmas period is one of the most stressful times of year we thought that perhaps a bit of pampering might be in [...]

Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson’s life of seclusion is one of poetry’s better-known pieces of trivia, and the possibility of this being the result of thwarted romance one of the most speculated-upon. In any case the known facts are that she lived almost alone for much of her life, with only her siblings [...]

Do you need to take a brief break from the reality of working and trying to make ends meet? Well a DIY pamper treatment at home is exactly what you need.  I spent the morning doing this last week-end and felt gloriously refreshed afterwards. This is an ‘all morning’ DIY treatment session so put aside [...]

On the face of things, the career of John Donne had two distinct faces: the sensual, celebratory, downright odd poems of his youth, and the pensive, angry and eloquent missives of his old age.

Okay, so poetry has been happening for quite some time, you guys. Like longer than the internet. Gaius Valerius Catullus lived from around 84-54 BC, growing up in Cisalpine Gaul, and spending most of his adult life in Rome. Let’s take a look at his work.

It’s cold outside. Well that’s winter for you. It seems to come back every year with its lack of light and freezing temperatures. If you’re worried about those rising fuel bills when you turn up the heat then there are plenty of way to keep warm without burning the planet.

Madonna once said that music makes the people come together. We take that sort of thing to heart here at Calm Your Beans and want you to feel the love with what we think are some amazing sounds.

On the 4th of November 1918, Wilfred Owen was killed by a shot to the head near the village of Joncourt in Picardy, northern France. Today we remember him with his poem Strange Meeting.