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Decorating our bedroom with Tesco Photo

Hey there! So we’re finally starting to get some decorating done! I’m so happy! I think starting to decorate your house is such a daunting process. If you’re anything like me, you’ll have about 10 different styles you like, all for different budgets! Since moving in together, we have been making plans to decorate and renovat the house. Most of the rooms in the house are liveable in and will get their makeovers over time, but our bedroom is number one on the list. The bedroom has been Robs for years, and as such has been through every stage of…

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Exploring Derwent County Park & Our 1 Year Borrowmydoggy anniversary!

Exploring Derwent County Park & Our 1 Year Borrowmydoggy anniversary!

Hello there! Oh it feels so good to be writing back on the blog! If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, you’ll know I’ve been trying to survive my masters dissertation as well as resits. Thankfully, I’ve only got another couple of weeks to go to finish my dissertation. It feels so good to just write for the sake of writing, not for academic reasons. So todays’ blog post is a super happy one for me and I couldn’t wait to share it. Teemo has been staying over a couple of nights a week, for the past couple of…

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money

Sorting out my Life Goals with GiffGaff Gameplan

Sorting out my Life Goals with GiffGaff Gameplan

The end of university life is nigh. It’s time to sort myself out for a life after university. The most important part of that is sorting out my finances. We really don’t talk about money enough. It’s a topic that people are really private about and in all honesty, I really wish we weren’t. I really wish that at school we had have had classes that taught you about real world things like budgeting, finances, taxes, mortgages etc. I’m going to write another couple of posts about this and some advice for students with money! So keep your eyes out…

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fitness

Whistlejacket and my main weight-loss motivation

Whistlejacket and my main weight-loss motivation

Seeing Whistlejacket for the first time… I remember the first time my Aunty took me to London for a weekend of sight-seeing. With family friends in London, it was going to be a weekend of galleries and museums. I remember thinking how boring it was going to be, looking at boring old paintings. What I didn’t realise is that I would happen across my now favourite painting in the world, and one that would be linked to a life-long love of all things equestrian. The painting Whistlejacket. Whistlejacket is a painting by George Stubbs from 1762, of the racehorse owned…

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Life Update: Moving in together!

Life Update: Moving in together!

August has been a whirlwind of a month. So much has gone on but it also feels like it’s gone so quickly and barely anything has happened? I honestly can’t believe it’s September at the weekend. As you may have seen elsewhere on my social media, Rob and I have been getting ourselves ready to move in together. WE MOVED IN TOGETHER!  I feel like I’ve been droning on about moving in together for months. It felt really strange not having a super strict deadline to move out by. The end of my tenancy is in the first week of…

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Why I love Harry Potter & the Harry Potter tag!

Why I love Harry Potter & the Harry Potter tag!

Books are one of my favourite things. It’s something I’ve wanted to blog about more but never really thought people would be interested in? But as my blog is growing and my life is changing, I’ve decided to make different types of posts! This change got me thinking. How can I have a blog and have not talked about Harry Potter yet?! So I thought I would share with you my book journey this year and a few answers from the Harry Potter Tag! ( I just googled it, if you want to try it!) Harry Potter was such a massive…

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food

A Cuban Date Night : Revolucion De Cuba Review

A Cuban Date Night : Revolucion De Cuba Review

So many amazing new restaurants are popping up allover Newcastle. Revolucion De Cuba is the new Cuban inspired restaurant and bar, located right in the centre of town. Rob and I headed there for a special date night…

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Great Exhibition of the North: The Design Trail with Tyne and Wear Metro

Great Exhibition of the North: The Design Trail with Tyne and Wear Metro

When I first came to Newcastle, I walked everywhere. I had lived in Newcastle for almost a whole year before I used a local bus or the metro. I was so sure I’d end up lost on it like I did with the tube. Fast forward five years, I commute everyday using the local buses and metro. I’ve come to regard Newcastle as home now. Staying put. There is something so warm and inviting about this part of the country, and it really is a “hidden gem”, and I believe part of what makes it so good up here, is…

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fitness

Fitness | 25 by 25 and Starting my weight loss journey

Fitness | 25 by 25 and Starting my weight loss journey

25 by 25. This is my weight loss goal. 25lbs weight loss by my 25th birthday. So that’s around 16 weeks left. I’ve been carefully watching my diet and trying to exercise more. At the moment most of my exercise is coming from redecorating the house! A lot of hard graft getting the place cleaned, gutted, walls prepped for painting and then the painting itself. In the next few weeks, I’ll be moving in properly and then the Ikea furniture struggle will begin again! I decided it was time to make a big change when I realised that I had…

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Banana Skincare essentials from The Body Shop

Banana Skincare essentials from The Body Shop

It’s time to Go Bananas for The Body Shop new range of body care products. They’re special edition and I had to get them up on the blog asap, as the range smells delicious, just like foam bananas! So, on Friday, Melissa and I were invited along to a blogger event at my local The Body Shop store to try out the new seasonal banana skincare range. I got a wonderful little hand and arm massage using the new body yoghurt, got to make my own personalised body butter sticker and got the most amazing makeover. The new skincare range…

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