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So when I was in my early to mid twenties, I had no qualms about splurging on organic luxury body care. I wouldn’t think twice about spending £30 plus on an organic, natural, paraben free body scrub or bath oil. I’d happily depart with £20 odd pounds for a nourishing face cream formulated with Royal … Continue reading Make My Own Face Cream

As I stood on a narrow platform high up in the trees, I thought to myself, ‘why did I sign up for this?!’ ‘I can’t do it!’ I shouted down. ‘Yes, you can!’ shouted back our safety advisor Lucy as she looked up at me from the woodland floor. ‘You can do it!’ encouraged Wasim … Continue reading #92. Go Ape

The reason I put things off is not only the fact that I can be extremely lazy, but I’m also afraid of putting my energy and effort into something that produces less than perfect results. So with some trepidation I started making pizza from scratch. From my very limited experience of working with dough I … Continue reading #17. Make pizza from scratch

After reading the novel The Secret Garden as a young child I was obsessed with the idea of creating my very own secret garden. I could clearly picture this beautiful idyll in my mind. I set about trying to convince my mum to cordon off the back of our garden with a trellis or a … Continue reading # 58. Grow my own fruit and vegetables

I’ve always had the intention of creating a scrapbook compiled of all the photos, museum tickets, receipts and other memorabilia from my honeymoon to Marrakesh, almost seven years ago. (Yes, it’s taken me that long to initiate this desire of mine!) During the recent long cold winter  when our laptop was temporarily out-of-order, I found … Continue reading # 32. Scrapbooking