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How to Make Your Own Perfect Sloe Gin

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Friday Stylefinder: Easy Smart – Red Shoe Heaven

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Happy Friday Girls! So, have you heard of Pepperberry? They are a sister company of Bravisimo and specialise in clothing for bigger busted women. Lets face it, if you are blessed up top, then trying to find clothing to fit can be a real pain in the shapely plump arse sometimes. With gaping buttons and over taught fabric threatening to blow at any time, this can often result in needing to go up one, sometimes two or three dress sizes. Talk about #firstworldproblems. I don’t want to go UP sizes … who does? We don’t need all that extra fabric everywhere else, Yet…

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  Now then, this week I had promised a perfect Christmas day dress … But then these trousers came into my life, and frankly, Beautiful Christmas dress can wait until next Friday! These amazing trousers from French Connection are simple to pull-on and go. They are like super comfy thick leggings, but with the addition of a cheeky quarter-leg of genuine leather. Kind of like, three-quarter sensible/one-quarter badass. And personally, as a 35 year old mum of four, these are pretty much my ideal life ratios! as soon as I saw them, I knew they were the trousers for me.…

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    I read a great book last year which raised to me the issue of arrogance in women; that we should embrace it every now and then. It really got me to thinking, and since reading it I cant help but notice the following – First of all, The definition of arrogance is as follows: To reveal an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities. Now let’s think about this for a second. Having a sense of ones own importance and abilities? … Well that’s a good thing, isn’t it? To be commended and celebrated, yes? it should…

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  I’m currently trying very hard to find the precise words in which to explain the red Boden shoes in question; Trying to find language which will really help me nail my feelings towards them; to help you all understand my love for them. My deep, deep love for them. But I fear I am falling short … To be honest. I’m even considering some fairly hefty swearing in order to convey my current shoe induced emotional state. I mean other bloggers openly swear. So it should be fine? right? No. No, no. I will find the words to describe these heavenly, HEAVENLY…

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  I was recently asked to try some Goats milk products from St Helens Farm and frankly, I was so impressed by the taste of everything that they sent over, that I wanted to find out and share with you some of the health benefits of going Goat. I am always interested in learning about improving our health through the food that we eat and was therefore well overdue a little lesson in Goats products. When you consider that goats milk is biologically closer to human milk than that of cows, and that its completely safe and nutritionally sound to give to your…

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Monday at 10am and I’m at the GP for an emergency appointment. Now, before y’all panic and worry it wasn’t, in my view, an emergency. Okay, so I hadn’t been able to stand, sit, move, bend, shit, piss or cough without screaming in agony, for three days, but it WASN’T an emergency. An emergency is when you’ve cut your head off, have nailed something onto a body part, or when your gentleman’s area has turned an odd colour. All I’d done was twist my back and all the GP had to do is prescribe some pain killers and send me…

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Before we begin with How to make the perfect Sloe Gin, check out this article  which includes information on how to identify Sloes and when to harvest them. Some say that you should not pick your Sloes until after the first frost of the season, but if picking before fear not, because you can trick your berries into optimum condition with a quick 2 day stint in the freezer. What you will need to make Sloe Gin: 700ml Gin (Just the cheap stuff will do because you’re pimping it up. I used the Sainsbury’s Basics one) 200g Caster Sugar 400g Ripe Sloe Berries (if…

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Lets face it, most grown ups love Halloween. A lot. And whether you wish to go the whole hog and go for full-on fancy dress, or just pop on a couple of accessories to join in with the spirit of things, it seems only fitting to pull together a few of the internets best bits. Just for grown ups. Please scroll through and click to shop if you wish … don’t forget to check out my most favourite Halloween accessory at the bottom of the page: Facelace! (honestly, Its just brilliant, and transforms ANY outfit into a Halloween one) Just throw it together with your…

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Let me begin by saying this is not a promotional review in any way. I paid to rent this movie and as such I can say what I like. Innit. So, What We Do In The Shadows. What’s it about? Well it’s about 89 minutes long, and if you thought the New Zealand movie industry was just Peter Jackson and hobbits then maybe it’s time to think again. Actually my sources tell me that Peter Jackson’s next movie is again based on a children’s book, and will also be split into three movies. The Very Hungry Caterpillar will star Andy…

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Here is our little story of how we moved from town, to the countryside in search of a rural idyll to call our own. 7 years ago this month, we moved from the wonderful hustle and bustle of Brighton, to here: A tiny ‘hamlet’ in the middle of …well… not much really. We don’t have a shop. We don’t have a pub. We don’t even have many pavements to speak of. And anything of any importance seems to be atleast a 30 minute drive away in any given direction. Round here, It’s all about the narrow lanes and the bushes; Some…

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