13 reasons why travelling alone is the best

February 21, 2016, 8:02 am

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Venturing to foreign climes by yourself can be a daunting prospect for even the most worldly of globetrotters.

Yet the experience of solitude in a far flung corner of some remote paradise, or in the heart of a bustling metropolis can lead to unforgettable moments.

Life’s too short to find the perfect travel buddy, especially when, all along, it was you.

Here are 13 reasons why I choose to travel alone.

1. It’s easier

This might seem a bit of a cop-out, but it’s true.

If you have only yourself to please, you immediately eradicate the pitfalls of a travelling companion.

2. It’s more fun

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February 21, 2016, 8:29 am

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If you’ve made the mistake of watching The Notebook on a date, or have spent too long at work looking at pictures of tiny kittens on Facebook instead of updating a spreadsheet, you may need a way to hide the ensuing tears.

Aside from putting your head in a paper bag, the only option you really have is your makeup bag and the contents of your kitchen.

Here’s five ways to soothe, de-puff and disguise those weepy peepers.

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13 things you only know if you’re addicted to selfies

February 21, 2016, 8:59 am

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Let’s all hail the miraculous invention of the camera phone aka the perfect platform for a selfie.

You just don’t understand why people turn their noses up at selfie – it is after all a great talent to be able to take a perfect snap of your face as soon as you wake up.

When it comes to capturing your best angle there’s nothing you don’t do, and no person that you won’t happily crop out, all during your quest for the perfect selfie.

Here’s 13 things you only know if you’re addicted to selfies.

1. It’s all about selfies 

Why do people bother with fancy photographers, or fancy props and those expensive SLR cameras?

When quite simply the front facing camera on your phone will suffice.

The only type of picture that bears any relevance is a selfie. Preferably only of yourself, and no-one else.

2. But first, let me take a selfie!

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17 things you only understand if your brother or sister is your best friend

February 21, 2016, 11:44 am

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It takes an extremely special person to earn the coveted position of your best friend in the whole world – and who is better qualified than your brother or sister.

You have grown into adults together, shared some equally joyous and harrowing experiences and understand each other like no other. Fantastic friends from outside of the sibling circle will come and go – each having some kind of influence – but there will never be anyone so solidly there for you like bro or sis.

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10 fast foods we wish were available to make at home

February 21, 2016, 11:00 pm

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Imagine being able to pop to the local supermarket and buy a cheeky Nandos 1/4 chicken? The dream.

Last week we came across the remarkable discovery that you can now get ready-to-bake Millie’s Cookies kits down at your local Iceland.

And this got us thinking about all of the other delicious food items we wish were available to buy in your nearest supermarket, so you could make numerous quantities in the comfort of your own home and gorge in a judgement free zone.

Here’s a list of things we wish that supermarkets would start stocking. Like right now please.

1. Pizza Hut cookie dough

15 things only people with bright hair understand

February 21, 2016, 11:00 pm

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Dyeing your hair a bright, outrageous colour can be a struggle – and we don’t just mean the upkeep.

Yes there is the constant dyeing, the colour disasters and the fight to keep you hair feeling silky and smooth after months of peroxide abuse.

But there are other reasons why having brightly-dyed tresses can be difficult, whether you’ve opted for pink hair, rainbow hair, mermaid hair or unicorn hair.

Here are 15 things people with bright hair have to go through.

1. You are constantly asked ‘have you dyed your hair?’

Even if you haven’t dyed your hair in weeks, people don’t seem to understand that colour does fade and change.

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February 21, 2016, 11:42 pm

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Little girl saves up to surprise her big brother with the hamster he desperately wanted

February 22, 2016, 12:36 am

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As anyone who has a sibling will know, most of your childhood is spent coming up with new and ingenious ways to destroy each other.

Which is why this story of two siblings from Tampa Bay, Florida, has so impressed the Facebook community.

After little Abby Stout got a hamster as a pet recently, her big brother Daniel decided he wanted one too (sibling rivalry and all that).

Daniel started doing extra chores and saving up the money, but he was still short of funds.

So, Abby decided to use all her birthday money to buy one for… Read the full story

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15 things every proper grown up should own

February 22, 2016, 1:23 am

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There comes a point in your life where you need to bite the bullet and just have a spare pair of sheets and a pair of shoes that don’t come from Primark.

Here’s 15 things every proper grown up should own.

1. A blender

It’s not that you can’t survive without a blender, but once you start scouring Pinterest for recipes because you’re sick of making pasta bake for dinner every night, you’re going to find a blogger telling you to ‘blend until smooth’ and you’re going to wish you owned one.

2. A whisk

To be honest, you should actually have an electric whisk at this point, but even a normal whisk is better than using a fork. Seriously, you’ll never look back.

3. A slow cooker

If you learn just one thing from this list, it’s that you should 110% have a slow cooker in your arsenal.

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A personal trainer piled on five stone so he could lose weight with his client

February 22, 2016, 1:53 am

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So that his client didn’t have to undertake her weight loss battle alone, personal trainer Adonis Hill purposefully piled on 70lbs (five stone) in three months.

Client Alissa Kane had been overweight most of her life. So, Adonis, a 35-year-old trainer from Brooklyn, who had already overcome his own battle with weight and depression in his late-twenties, decided the best way to motivate Alissa was to go on the journey with her.

That journey was captured for US TV show Fit to Fat to Fit.

For three months, Adonis consumed 8,000 calories a day, eating doughnuts for breakfast, hot dogs or… Read the full story

13 things that happen when you get your own place

February 22, 2016, 3:18 am

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Congratulations! You have finally moved out and got your own place.

With your own place comes a shedload of freedom, but then also some really uncool responsibilities like paying for council tax and doing your own laundry.

Moving out and getting your own place is one great, clear sign you must be a fully fledged grown up.

It’s scary and exciting at the same time, but basically it means that you can eat pancakes for every single meal without any judgement.

Here’s 13 things that happen when you get your own place.

1. Sweet freedom

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Blogger travels the world reviewing the weirdest specials at McDonald’s

February 22, 2016, 3:30 am

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James McGowan isn’t interested in Big Macs. He’s got no time for McNuggets. Don’t even talk to him about McMuffins. This guy’s all about the McSpecials.

The 28-year-old software developer/blogger, who is originally from Amherstburg, Canada, but now based in Bangkok, Thailand, is the man (and the iron constitution) behind Travelling McD’s, the site where he tests and rates regional specials from McDonald’s around the world.

Over five years, he (and, from time to time, his wife) has eaten at Maccy’s in 53 different countries and reviewed over 300 regional menu items.

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10 things you only do for your first child

February 22, 2016, 3:30 am

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Ah, firstborns. Science has proven that the extra nurture they receive from their parents, as well as having to teach their siblings, gives them a higher IQ.

In our family it’s certainly true that there’s just a few things that we did for our firstborn that we simply don’t have the time, energy or inclination to do for our second and third child.

Here are 10 examples.

Record everything

Those lovely books with spaces for newborn photos, date of first steps and noting happy memories? Lock of hair?

A whole photobook dedicated to your darling’s first year? Got… Read the full story

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February 22, 2016, 4:34 am

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In an ideal world, everyone would feed their little ones on organic sprigs of asparagus, wilted kale, quinoa, and sunbeams.

But, in reality, chicken nuggets and beans are sometimes the only thing that will prevent World War III on a Tuesday night.

The pressure put on parents – often by other parents – to raise their darling offspring on nothing but the best organic, hand-reared, ethically-sourced, grass-fed, locally harvested, artisan, craft food, can sometimes be exhausting.

It’s a somewhat unrealistic approach to parenting that Honest Toddler blogger Bunmi Laditan, 32, likes to poke fun at with her brilliantly funny Facebook posts.

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London’s first dessert restaurant has an Alice In Wonderland themed menu

February 22, 2016, 4:58 am

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Let’s face it, there’s something wrong with most restaurants – too much savory and not enough sweet.

Well if you always check the pudding section of the menu first this is big news.

London’s Cafe Royal is opening what it claims is the capital’s first dessert restaurant on March 3.

What’s more, desserts inspired by Alice In Wonderland and called things like Queen of Hearts, Mad Hatter and Eat Me, Drink Me are on the menu.

But, enough talk, let’s get to the good stuff.

Here’s the kind of dishes on offer.

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February 22, 2016, 6:25 am

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Introducing the newest form of therapy in LA: Anger Rooms.

Californians who’ve had a rough day and just want to let off some steam without damaging the soft furnishings, can now book themselves into the Anger Room pop-up.

The concept is pretty simple. You book a room – the decor can be customised to your taste, they’ll even fill it with balloons – for between five and 25 minutes, depending on how bad your day has been.

You are then given safety gear and a weapon of choice – a hockey stick, for example. Next up, you pick your favourite stress-releasing music (anything off Appetite for Destruction would work here). And then you spend your allotted time totally destroying the place.

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11 things you discover when you become an aunt or uncle for the first time

February 22, 2016, 7:00 am

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At the end of last year the greatest thing happened to me – I became an aunt for the first time.

Nothing could have prepared me for the overwhelming feelings that came along with watching my sister struggle through labour and then meeting my beautiful, incredible niece for the first time.

In the months that have followed I continue to be full of pride to see that my sister is such a natural when it comes to motherhood and each time I see my niece she manages to do something that completely steals every bit of my heart.

Welcoming a baby into the family is such a joy.

Here’s 11 things you learn when you become an aunt or uncle.

1. When you find out that your brother or sister is about to become a parent your childhood will flash before your eyes

How can someone who used to be your partner in all childhood mischief-making be a parent?

2. The anxiety leading… Read the full story

This photography projects proves all women turn into their mothers eventually

February 22, 2016, 7:03 am

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If you’ve ever shrugged off comments that you and your mum ‘look just like sisters!’, or even that you just look like peas from the same pod – you may want to take another look in the mirror. 

Because though there may be some obvious differences between the pair of you – those that come with age – lines, skin tone, the vibrancy of your hair, for instance – you might have more in common than you once thought.

A photography experiment conducted by the Daily Mail showed just how alike to one another five mothers and daughters are by using Photoshop to merge their faces into one another.

The outcome? They look almost identical.

Sara, 62, and Clemmie, 30, weren’t convinced they shared many similarities… 

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February 22, 2016, 7:16 am

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Former binge-eater fights back at fat shamers by owning it at yoga

February 22, 2016, 8:23 am

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Dana Falsetti is proving to her thousands of Instagram followers that you don’t need to be thin to be flexible.

After hitting a low point in her life during college when she reached her heaviest weight of 300lbs, Dana joined the gym in hopes of feeling happier about her body.

But, after losing a significant amount of weight, Dana didn’t feel any happier about herself.

‘I was still me, I brought myself and all of my habits and tendencies and fears with me to my ‘new’ body,’ she writes on her website.

As a last attempt to regain her self-esteem, Dana joined a local yoga class, which she says at first was daunting.

‘I walked in having the largest body in the room on top of being the beginner, and yoga was hard,’ she said.

‘I couldn’t hold downward dog for five breaths, my shoulders were on fire, and all the while other people in the room were popping up into… Read the full story