You wake up thinking about breakfast, then waste away your morning at work planning out your sad desk lunch. Post-lunch, you do actually get on with some work for a bit, then have a few biscuits before dedicating your time to planning dinner.
Sound about right?
A new study from Heinz has confirmed what we all pretty much knew to be true: The average British person spends a third of their waking hours thinking about food.
Happy World Naked Gardening Day! Yes, that’s a thing. Yes, it’s today, May 7th.
World Naked Gardening Day is the one day of the year dedicated to the joy of trimming your bushes and tending to your shrubs entirely in the nude.
Because why the heck not? Gardening is fun. Being naked is fun. Why not put the two together and celebrate getting back to nature in one relaxing activity?
Buuuut there may be some plants you’ll want to steer clear of.
Proof that times of crisis really do bring out the best in people.
Elise Boissonneault plans to get married this weekend in Toronto. Everything was going to plan until a wildfire burned through her home of Fort McMurray in Alberta, destroying her wedding dress along with the bridal shop where it was bought.
Luckily Elise and her fiancé were evacuated to safety, but having no dress and being unable to return to her hometown did put a dampener on their wedding plans.
But they decided not to let the fire ruin their big… Read the full story
Spring is here! Which is great, obviously, except you’re stuck at work, bored at home, or are unfortunate enough to be in a spot around the world that isn’t getting any glorious sunshine.
Don’t panic. Because looking at these photos of Mount Fuji covered in flowers… Read the full story
If there’s one thing the beauty world is losing its sh*t over right now, it’s rainbows.
Seriously, you saw the meltdown over that magical rainbow highlighter. Rainbows are the new glitter. They’re everywhere.
So it makes total sense that people are now transforming their eyelashes into mini rainbows – with the help of some snazzy lash extensions.
Yup. The rainbow lashes trend is taking over Instagram. And as fiddly as it may be (and it does look bloody fiddly), the results are pretty damn cool.
We all remember the moment we experienced the devastating realisation that ten minutes on the treadmill does not, in fact, cancel out having three Mars Bars afterwards.
It was deeply upsetting. Because, chocolate.
And while Mars has not magically changed the laws of science and made our ten-minutes-of-running-equals-three-mars-bars dreams come true, they have created a new version of the classic treat that you can at least pretend is healthy. Because it kind of is.
You can now buy Mars and Snickers protein bars. Whaa?
The sun’s out, spring is here, summer’s around the corner, so it’s time for us to start banging on about how we plan to spend our Sundays having picnics in the park and heading out to street food festivals.
Except we will do neither of those things, because we are deeply, deeply lazy and can’t be bothered making fancy cucumber sandwiches.
And come September we will look back over the summer and regret our inaction.
So we’re very, very pleased to discover that there’s now a service that will organise a romantic picnic on your behalf – complete with a butler, so you can literally just sit back and relax on the grass… Read the full story
What does beauty look like around the world?
That’s the question photographer Alexander Khimushin explores in his incredible photo project, The World In Faces.
For the last eight years Alexander has been travelling all around the globe, venturing out alone to experience new cultures, see incredible landscapes, and enjoy new ways of life.
But while on his travels, Alex realised something: the most interesting part of his journey weren’t the sights and tourist attractions, but all the people he met along the way.
From this realisation, The World… Read the full story
You know when you see a good deed popping up on social media, and it genuinely makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
Yeah? This video is exactly that. It is lovely. It is pure loveliness put in a box and wrapped up in a bow.
A teacher named Mrs Andrews was devastated when her cat passed away – and her students knew they needed to come up with a way to make her feel better.
So a group of students decided to give her a surprise. At first they just planned to bring in cupcakes and balloons (which would have been a… Read the full story
As a philosopher named Kanye West once asked, ‘REAL FRIENDS. HOW MANY OF US? HOW MANY OF US?’
Turns out his concerns are justified, because the number of real friends out there is, in fact, quite a bit smaller than you think. Oh.
A new study suggests that half of the people we consider to be our… Read the full story
Stop what you’re doing. Put down whatever sub-par snack you’re about to shove into your mouth.
Because oreo bagels exist in the world, and it’s possible that no food will ever measure up to their glory again.
Oreo bagels. They’re exactly as magical as they sound. They’re a chocolate and vanilla swirled bagel with cookie and cream flavour cream cheese and ACTUAL OREOS in the middle.
Their real, very fitting, name is Oreo Overload, and they’re sold at The Bagel Nook in Freehold, New Jersey.
Pentecost this weekend is all about celebrating the birth of Christianity.
And what better way to do that with your kids than with some pretty awesome activities – teaching them the story of the Holy Spirit and how God gave it to the apostles so they could share the wisdom with the world.
Here are some of our faves… and you don’t have to be religious to join in the fun.
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The dove symbolises many things including hope, promise, holiness, sacrifice and divinity – and of course Pentecost.
An origami dove takes a lot of patience to master so younger children can always make an easier dove using paper plates.
When you’re a parent of a child with autism, you quickly get used to judgement and odd looks when you’re out in public.
One mum came up with a solution.
Sunnie Suscia, from Femantle, Australia, is mother to eight-year-old Georgie. Georgie was diagnosed with autism five years ago, when he was just three and a half.
Sunnie’s friend, Constance Hall, explained on her blog that Sunnie and her husband, Art, quickly learned to adapt and accept Georgie’s condition.
They now say that the biggest challenge they face is other people’s judgement,… Read the full story
Occasionally, say when you’re trying to break through the tape on a parcel with your bare hands, you think to yourself ‘there must be a better way’.
And a lot of the time, you’d be right.
In fact, somewhere in the world, someone’s probably already solved your problem – the tape one at least – and put it online.
It’s just that it either isn’t available to buy yet, or no one thought to tell you about it.
Until now. Thank us later.
Oh, about that packaging tape problem…
Fixed it.
Introducing rip cord packaging tape.
There’s one joyous thing that doesn’t rely on nice weather, other people’s plans, or not spending all your money before your next paycheck hits: curling up with a good book.
It’s pure happiness and comfort. You can do it whenever, whether it’s sunny outside or pouring with rain.
All you need is a book and somewhere to read it. We’d strongly recommend creating a special cosy spot just for that, filled with cushions and blankets and a place for a cup of tea.
Here’s all the reading nook inspo you’ll need…
We’ve all dreamt about it. We’ve all worked out how much we’d give to each person and how many houses we’d buy in the south of France.
But, have you ever wondered what actually happens when you hit the jackpot? As in, how quickly you can get your hands on that cash and start off running to Harvey Nics?
Well, just in case it does ever happen to you, and inspired by a recent post on Reddit where a Canadian couple explained what happened after they won a million dollars, we’ve spoken to Camelot to find out exactly what happens next.
Y’know, after you’ve done a few laps of the living room, felt a bit faint, and screamed into a pillow.
1. Making the call
First, you need to call Camelot. The number’s on the back of the ticket, as well as on the website.
It might… Read the full story
How do you put the indescribable feeling of love into words?
You know, other than: ‘u up?’ or ‘bae’.
Turns out that while we’re talking about being head over heels or having butterflies in our stomachs, lovestruck people in other places around the world have come up with equally strange and wonderful phrases to describe the feeling of love.
Vashi teamed up with illustrator Elly Walton to share the most beautifully strange (or strangely beautiful) idioms from around the world.
Our fave is definitely the postman’s sock one. Stealing it for our next sext.
This year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show is nearly upon us.
And this year it will feature Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra in addition to the usual exhibits and shows.
The event will run for five days from 8am to 8pm on Tuesday 24 May until Saturday 28 May from 8am until 5.30pm.
The best news? Normally it always seems to rain during the Chelsea Flower Show but this year there could be a glint of sunlight.
It’s just a long ranger forecast so not entirely reliable, but the Met Office suggests some ‘dry, fine and warm’ weather might be… Read the full story
A golden retriever is making sure his owner knows who makes the rules after he ran away to doggy daycare when he’d been firmly told ‘no’ beforehand.
Five-year-old Riley, a cute pup from North Carolina, was being walled home by his owner, Tonia Mosteller, when he saw a few of his doggy daycare friends strolling nearby with a staff member.
They stopped to say hello, but Riley was pretty jealous that his mates were hanging out without him, and so started to whine to… Read the full story
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