Surprise weekend away
Jul08

Surprise weekend away

TIG’s mums very special birthday is this Saturday! Ideas have been conjured up, preparations have been made and the TIG family are all set for a fabulous weekend away. We have planned a surprise birthday weekend for TIG’s mum jam-packed full of great ideas that I can’t wait to share with you. Today the mystery of the birthday weekend started to unveil for TIG’s mum! There was a surprise delivery to her...

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Crystal Maze is Back
Jun12

Crystal Maze is Back

Yesterday I heard the most amazing, exciting, unbelievable news….Crystal Maze is back! I think I have watched every episode of the epic 1990’s game show Crystal Maze at least twice and I used to make the TIG family play the board game (very much against their will!) at least once a week until they sold it at a car boot sale without me knowing!! If you are too young to remember, Crystal Maze was a cult British adventure game show where...

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Live Below the Line Challenge Diary
Apr30

Live Below the Line Challenge Diary

Well, this is me on Day 3, absolutely exhausted, delusional and ever-so-slightly grumpy (sorry to the guys I work and live with!) and what’s more I’m currently eating vegetables yet again, on a yeast-less homemade pizza base – what am I doing?! Let me take you through my week…. Day 1: As I went to prepare my breakfast I went straight to the fridge and pulled out the freshly squeezed orange juice. Then realisation struck,...

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Live Below the Line Challenge – Recipes
Apr26

Live Below the Line Challenge – Recipes

Here are my really quick, easy and cheap Live Below the Line recipes. Even if you’re not taking part in the actual challenge, why not give them a go and save some pennies. I will be adding more inspirational recipes throughout the week. Jam tarts Cost: 36p (3p each) Serves: 12 Ingredients: 12 teaspoons of jam, 8p (28p from Lidl) 255g plain flour, 7p (45p Lidl) 140g baking fat, 21p (39p Lidl) Method: Preheat the oven to Gas Mark...

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Live Below the Line Challenge – 1 Day to go…
Apr26

Live Below the Line Challenge – 1 Day to go…

With 1 day to go, I have finally done my weekly shop for the Live Below the Line challenge. I have been planning this for the last couple of weeks, doing Supermarket price comparisons and earmarking the lowest, ready to spend a morning driving round and picking up all the bargains! However, on second thoughts, how relevant would these methods be to those who really do live below the line? I decided to challenge myself and try and buy...

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Live Below the Line Challenge
Apr12

Live Below the Line Challenge

A few weeks ago I decided to take up the Live Below the Line challenge. From 27th April – 1st May, thousands of people all across the world will come together to unite against extreme poverty. The challenge is quite simple, spend no more than £1 per day on food and drink for 5 days. This is a fantastic challenge to really raise awareness and to challenge myself and others to think differently about extreme poverty and the choices we...

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Creme Egg cheesecake recipe
Apr04

Creme Egg cheesecake recipe

Now this is an epic cheesecake packed full of creme eggs! This is the perfect Easter treat to wow your friends and family with and I have just added the finishing touches to mine. As you can probably tell I’m certainly not the neatest of bakers but the proof is certainly in the tasting! And wow this is one delicious cheesecake…the diet starts tomorrow! This recipe is so easy to follow, if I can do it then so can you!...

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Valentine’s Giveaway
Feb01

Valentine’s Giveaway

IT’S COMPETITION TIME! WIN 1 of 10 Sock Sets for Couples It’s February already and we’re getting all loved up with the launch of the ChattyFeet socktastic Valentine’s Giveaway! This week the lovely guys at ChattyFeet sent me 2 sets of ‘couples’ socks, for myself and Tig’s boyfriend to take on a test run as an early Valentine’s treat. So we put our best foot forward…..and fell...

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A ball pool for adults?
Feb01

A ball pool for adults?

I have just heard of the most amazing interactive art installation. I’m probably a little late to the party but this is one that I had to share. It is called ‘Jump In!’ and it’s running until February 13th 2015. West London creative agency Pearlfisher have opened up their gallery space and have invited you and I to join them in an experience that promises to be a seasonal creative recharge! (I’m pretty...

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Mug cake challenge
Jan18

Mug cake challenge

I received this fantastic mug cake recipe book for Christmas and I had this great idea that I would challenge myself and all the TIG fans out there this week with making a different mug cake recipe from the book every day for a week. The week was certainly challenging, but it was really good fun and got people of all ages joining in. It turns out I have some extremely creative followers – the mug cakes that were created last...

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Idea #25: Fruit infused water bottle
Jan08

Idea #25: Fruit infused water bottle

For Christmas this year I received some really wonderful pressies, however, this one had me slightly baffled. TIG’s mum always comments on how I’m the hardest person to surprise as I’ve usually seen everything, done everything or bought one already! However, she well and truly got me with this one. This idea is something I had never come across before, I hadn’t seen anyone using one and I hadn’t got a...

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Book review: Blogging for Creatives
Jan02

Book review: Blogging for Creatives

I’m fairly new to this blogging world that has all of a sudden started taking over my life – in a good addiction sort of way! As I am at the beginning of my journey as a ‘blogger’, for Christmas I asked for a blogging book. I wanted to really understand and get a good grasp on the basics of blogging and see what other people were doing to drive traffic to their blogs and find out about the different writing...

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End the year in style with this idea…
Dec31

End the year in style with this idea…

It’s the final day of 2014 – are you celebrating in style tonight? The TIG family are having a few friends over for a meal tonight, with no doubt a competitive battle of the sexes game or two, and not forgetting the fireworks! I absolutely love Christmas and I refuse to accept it’s coming to an end! So, for tonight’s meal I decided to keep the theme well and truly festive. Recently, a friend of mine shared this...

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Idea #24: Photo booth fun
Dec29

Idea #24: Photo booth fun

Today, we visited TIG’s extended family in Derby for Christmas Day – take 2. A visit to the Derby clan is always guaranteed to be a laugh-a-minute and today was no exception. After a fabulous 2-course meal we distributed our Secret Santa presents. We had a £10 limit and the TIG family had all decided to buy the same Christmas jumper for each of our recipients. Primark did good with their festive snowman jumpers priced at £9, and...

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DIY Christmas gift tags
Dec27

DIY Christmas gift tags

Today was a very sad day (despite TIG’s dad looking very excitable in the photo below!), we were leaving our luxury Scottish home, the relaxing hot tub, and my dream feature fireplace behind. It was time to go home. It wasn’t all bad, after 6 hours in the car we arrived back to a very special gift on the kitchen table that had been left by our neighbours. What made this gift so special wasn’t just the gift, it was the gift...

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Merry Christmas TIG fans
Dec25

Merry Christmas TIG fans

Christmas day is finally here! I am so excited (despite no snow!), and you will be pleased to hear Santa managed to find us! TIG’s boyfriend received a modern alternative to a Christmas stocking in the form of a coal skuttle filled with pressies! Did you get any creative stockings from Santa? We enjoyed a relaxing morning of opening presents, followed by a leisurely walk in the Tay Forest Park. We left TIG’s dad in the kitchen to keep...

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Santa is on his way…
Dec24

Santa is on his way…

It has become a tradition in the TIG household to track Santa on Christmas Eve at www.noradsanta.org (yes, I know I’m nearly 30!). This is a fantastic website for kids (and big kids too) to follow Santa’s journey delivering presents around the world. However, this year was going to be slightly different, I had read articles online that we were actually going to be able to spot Santa in the night sky. The articles has stated we would...

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Surprise Surprise!
Dec22

Surprise Surprise!

  TIG’s mum surprised us today with an ‘activity’. We hadn’t got a clue what it was going to be but the TIG family were certainly not disappointed. Today, we were treated to a Winter Watch Highland Safari near Aberfeldy in Scotland. We also got the chance to get up close and personal and feed the red deer. This was an incredible day out and you can read my full review of our Highland Safaris experience here. The red deer...

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Next stop…Paddington
Dec21

Next stop…Paddington

Today was a very wet and dull day in Scotland, will we get the White Christmas we are hoping for? We opted for an indoor activity today to stay out of the rain; a trip to the cinema in Perth to see Paddington the movie. Anyone who knows me, knows I am not a film person and no matter how much of an action thriller the film is, I always end up asleep. However, today was a first – I stayed awake! I’m not sure if this was because TIG’s...

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Where are we going?
Dec20

Where are we going?

Today is the beginning of Christmas for the TIG family. I have just been given an envelope from TIG’s mum and inside is a postcode on the back of a postcard. That postcode is our destination for Christmas. On the front of the postcard is a slightly worryingly scene of a tent, very heavy rain and lots of mud. Maybe this isn’t going to be the magical Christmas I was dreaming of! TIG’s boyfriend typed the postcode into the Sat-Nav...

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