Paint by numbers kit including oil paints, brushes and a stretched canvas with an outline of a cat in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Starry Night

Last Christmas, a friend gave me a colouring book called ‘Cats Being Dicks‘, in which I spent many happy hours colouring in cats being dicks in various ways. This whetted my appetite for more arty stuff, so when Davincified asked me if I wanted to review their paint by numbersContinue Reading

A kitchen countertop with a red pepper, pineapple, melon, bag of spinach, carton of mushrooms, a courgette and three baby cucumbers on top of it

I’m a few weeks into an Oddbox veg box delivery but I’ve had an on-off relationship with vegetable box subscriptions for years. When I still lived in London, I had a weekly Riverford delivery for about a year or so. I loved it. Despite living in a rough part ofContinue Reading

A photo of a black cast iron bed with a mattress and a mattress topper on top

A mattress topper is something I’ve considered investing in for a while because, although my mattress is still within the ‘buy a new mattress after 8 years’ thing, I wanted an upgrade. I actually needed an upgrade because I’m a skinflint who bought the second cheapest mattress in Argos and toContinue Reading

a photo of a packet of Violife smoky cheddar flavour slices, Violife Le Rond Camembert flavour, Violife Epic Mature and Violife original flavour slices

I first reviewed Violife vegan cheese on this blog almost ten years ago. How much has changed since then? Well, Violife have certainly added to their range, that’s for sure! Continue Reading