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Valentine’s Day: Forget Quality Street, We Want Quality Time
No matter how close you are to someone, working out what to get them for any occasion – let alone Valentine’s Day – can be a difficult decision. It’s fitting, then, that more and more people are binning the wrapping paper altogether and opting to give their loved ones the gift of quality time on Valentine’s Day instead. Whether it’s the proximity to Christmas, or the fact that our cupboards are already bulging with bits and bobs amassed in the January sales, it seems that by the time Valentine’s Day rolls around we prefer presents that take up thought space, rather than floor space. This is backed up in our…
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Five Deliciously Different Pancake Recipes
Everyone loves pancakes, right? They are easy to make, fun to flip and of course, delicious to eat. Luckily, tomorrow is Pancake Day (or Shrove Tuesday) so we all have an excuse to break some eggs, get flipping and tuck in to a massive stack with a variety of toppings! Sweet or savoury? It’s your choice. Here is a great, classic recipe for cooking amateurs (like me!). It’s the only scenario where falling flat is a good thing! Classic Pancakes: 225 grams (or 8 ounces) of plain or all-purpose flour A pinch of salt 2 large eggs 600 ml of milk 2 tsp of melted butter, plus melted butter for…
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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…
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Sound-on-Film: Four Monumental Movie Soundtracks
Since the late 1880’s around half a million films have been made, many of which have encouraged keen movie fans to flock to their local cinema in excitement and anticipation. Over the years film has spread cultural awareness, played with our imaginations, made us laugh, scared us senseless and at times, managed to completely disappoint. Although many movies have dazzled us with inventive camera work, high budget special effects or scantily clad Hollywood stars, they just wouldn’t be the same without an unmistakable musical soundtrack. Here are a few cinematic gems with great movie soundtracks that are perfect to enjoy on a rainy day… Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino is known for his…
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Winter Survival Tips: How to Cheer Yourself Up
We love a good quote at Red Letter Days, and have to endorse what the great American writer Mark Twain once said: “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up” So with that in mind, we canvassed our colleagues in the office and put together some practical ways to feel cheery – not chilly – this winter, as we give you our Winter Survival Tips! Take Vitamin D It’s one of the major nutrients we lack when winter is in force and we forget what the sun looks like. Deficiency of this vitamin affects us physically by lowering our bone density and can also…
