As a committed vegetarian for over 30 years, there are quirks of meat-free living that can still be frustrating, like dining out with friends. One of the things I love most about the meat-free movement and the UK’s growing dairy-curious crowd is that restaurants have really done their bit toContinue Reading

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