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Winter Sports: Places to Go to Embrace Ice and Snow
As much as snow gives everything a beautiful glow, the threat of it can cause a feeling of dread among busy workers, tired commuters or parents on the hectic school run. Snow can almost bring our entire country to a standstill within a matter of frosty hours, but if embraced in the right way, it also offers an incredible amount of fun and excitement! If you’re thinking of fleeing the cold for some well-deserved sun, why not flip the idea on its head and get knee deep in snow for a week of après-ski and thrilling winter sports? Here are a few great ski areas and resorts which are sure…
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Valentine’s Day Gifts – Ten Things They WON’T Appreciate
Has your partner ever messed up and tried to make everything right with a cheap bunch of carnations or chocolates purchased from the nearest garage? They say love is blind, but here are our tips of items best NOT to invest in this Valentine’s Day (or any day!). FOR HER 1. A Vacuum Cleaner (or any cleaning implement). This one should be self-explanatory, but just in case there’s any confusion: it’s no longer the 1950s. 2. Size Too Small. Ask friends or sneak into her wardrobe rather than risk buying her something that really does make her bum look big. 3. A Self Help Book. No one likes to be reminded…
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Love Gestures for the Romantically Challenged
While our favourite Hollywood heroes make expressing how you feel look easy, for the rest of us, it can sometimes be a bit more complicated. Whether you’re trying to impress a new beau, treat your long-term love, or just want to let someone know you haven’t gone off them yet, here are four ways to say “you’re brilliant” when you’re stuck for words. 1. Let the view do the talking London’s biggest (literally) attraction opened to the public today, providing lucky visitors with the tallest talking point in Europe. The views from The Shard are pretty much unrivalled, but if the view alone doesn’t say what you can’t, then a game…