National Stationery Week: Win free stationery from Flying Tiger

April 27, 2017, 11:27 pm

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Admit it, we all love being stationery nerds. Is anything really as joyful as getting a new pencil case at the start of a school year?

Our affection for stationery hasn’t stopped since then.

We’re always on the look out for that pen and notebook to make your life feel slightly less disorganised.

Now it’s time for you to make 9 to 5 feel less like a chore.

To celebrate National Stationery Week, which runs from the 24th to the 30th, we’re offering you the chance to win stationery from Flying Tiger‘s latest Spring collection.

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M&S is finally going to try out food deliveries

April 27, 2017, 11:39 pm

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M&S has long been our go-to for when we want to get fancier with our food than a standard £1 frozen pizza.

It’s where we pop when we want out-there chocolate with tortilla chips thrown in, or prosecco, or five bags of Percy Pigs. You know, as a treat.

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But it’s never made it as the place we go to for regular shops – partly because it still feels fancy, but mostly because we’re too damn lazy to walk to the shops when we can just order online from Tesco or Sainsbury’s.

Now, finally, that could be… Read the full story

It turns out Weetabix makes a cheaper own-brand version for Asda and Tesco

April 28, 2017, 12:08 am

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Just weeks after our trust was broken by the revelation that Aldi Hoops may just be actual Hula Hoops in different packaging, another food dupe discovery has arrived to blow our minds.

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The Sun reports that Asda’s and Tesco’s version of Weetabix – Wheat Bisks and Wheat Biscuits, respectively – are actually made by the same firm who makes actual, proper Weetabix.

A 24-pack of Weetabix costs £2.39, while each of the supermarket own-brand versions costs £1.29.

The Weetabix dupes may be half the price of actual Weetabix,… Read the full story

15 of London’s best vegan cakes and where to get them

April 28, 2017, 12:46 am

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When it comes to culinary indulgence, few things hit the spot like a good cake.

Sweet, fluffy and gratifying, it’s the foodstuff that beckons ‘go on, treat yourself.’

You can now get vegan ‘Magnum-shaped’ ice lollies that are sweetened with grapes

With the number of British vegans having tripled in the last decade, hundreds of thousands of plant-based eaters are crying out for suitable goodies.

Luckily, a number of London’s baking creatives have risen to the challenge with their tasty wares.

Whether you like your tea-time treats raw, creamy or sugar-free,… Read the full story

You can now get avocado chocolate and it looks creamily delicious

April 28, 2017, 12:57 am

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Avocados are delicious.

On toast. In burritos. On their own with a splash of lemon juice.

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They’re refreshing, delicious and creamy.

Which is why one chocolate company has decided to put together two of the world’s greatest foods to create avocado chocolate.

LA-based chocolatier Compartes has just created a brand new California Avocado white chocolate bar and it looks unimaginably creamy.

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Truly ridiculous hands-free toilet seat promises to fix all marital problems

April 28, 2017, 1:19 am

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Oh, toilets. The cause of so many relationship breakdowns and partner-related woes.

If you’re straight, anyway.

The dude goes into the bathroom to pee, bro-ing about and chugging a beer. He puts the toilet seat up and leaves it up, inconsiderate of his wife’s womanly needs. Ugh, classic man.

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Then the woman goes in, doesn’t see the lifted seat, and ends up wedged into the toilet, helpless and calling for her foolish husband to help.

Men and women, right? Can’t live together, can’t live without each other. Or something.

Obviously, it’s the toilet seat that’s the issue… Read the full story

Someone’s made a pizza with 101 different cheeses

April 28, 2017, 1:53 am

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Sometimes, pizza just isn’t cheesy enough.

All you want is a slice of gooey goodness but often, you just end up with a piece of chewy carb covered in passata and two tiny dots of mozzarella.

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And nothing is more disappointing than badly cheesed pizza. So it’s nice to hear that there are people out there doing their bit to ensure that pizzas remain as calorific and cheesy as possible.

A pizza joint in Portland has created a pizza with 101 different cheeses.

Scottie’s Pizza Parlour claims to have shattered a world record with their one-day-only ‘Centouno… Read the full story

Gwyneth Paltrow is now launching a Goop magazine to spread even more posh health nonsense

April 28, 2017, 2:12 am

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Fan of expensive gold butts, steaming your vagina (DON’T STEAM YOUR VAGINA), and curing your depression by walking around barefoot? Fancy reading all of Gwynnie’s wisdom in glossy paper form?

Well, rejoice.

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Gwyneth Paltrow is officially turning her Goop website into a magazine, to be released quarterly.

WWD reports that the magazine will be made in collaboration with Vogue… Read the full story

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Now there’s a dating app in Slack that can match-make you with your coworkers

April 28, 2017, 2:42 am

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You’ve been secretly lusting over Tom who goes around fixing the office’s computers for months now.

Every time he goes to wash out his cafetiere, you try to time it so that you’re in the kitchen at the same time.

If you're an emotional eater, blame your parents

Everytime he gets up for lunch, you nip out so you’re in the lift together.

Every time he says he’s going for a drink after work, you suddenly cajole your deskmates into having a pint.

Has he clocked you? Does he harbour the same kind of deep lust? Will he ever just throw you down… Read the full story

Lush accused of fat shaming over Instagram post

April 28, 2017, 3:15 am

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Ethical cosmetics and skincare company Lush have been accused of fat shaming after a recent Instagram post seemed to signify a departure from their previously body positive campaigns. 

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The brand, which creates ethical, non-animal tested products, has previously been regarded as an inclusive one.

However, Twiter user Liberty flagged up the difference between a previous marketing campaign, where women of different shapes and sizes stand naked with their backs to the camera, with an Instagram post publicising the screening of a film called What The Health.

The film, which comes from the makers of Cowspiracy, explores ‘…the collusion… Read the full story

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April 28, 2017, 3:33 am

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We all know that the only time we actually do kegels is when see the word ‘kegels’ written or typed somewhere, and quickly power through five or so while we remember they’re important.*

*Clenching right now? Same.

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This is mostly because we tend to forget about working the muscles we can’t see. We forget that we’re supposed to be clenching regularly and keeping ourselves sculpted in the vag area.

But what if kegel-ing were fun? What if it had some kind of competitive element?

Maybe that’d motivate us to do it more.

Enter Perifit S. It’s a… Read the full story

Buying vegan wine is as easy as checking for ‘unfiltered’ on the label

April 28, 2017, 3:54 am

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Everyone knows that veganism means no meat, no fish, no dairy.

But swerving all animal products also affects your booze habits.

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While most beers are vegan-friendly, a lot of wines aren’t.

Young wines tend to be quite cloudy due to tiny molecules floating around. We like our wines bright and clear, so they go through a process called ‘fining’.

Normally if they’re left long enough, wines self-fine but when you’re producing gallons and gallons of the stuff, time is of the essence and producers use ‘fining agents’ to move things along.

Those… Read the full story

Even fizzy water isn’t good for you, so we might as well all be dead

April 28, 2017, 3:56 am

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We all know that most of the delicious things aren’t good for us. 

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Bacon might be giving us cancer. Wine makes you fat. Beef burgers contribute to widescale environmental destruction.

Basically, the only truly healthy things that you can enjoy eating are home grown, unsalted vegetables, and water.

Plain water, that is.

Yep. If your whole aim in life is to live to 150 and never age, then you’re going to have to cut out any fizzy water from your diet because it is, apparently, bad for your teeth.

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April 28, 2017, 4:30 am

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We are extremely big fans of both plants and cakes.

So if you shove the two together, we’re going to be on board.*

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*Unless we’re talking about just piling a bunch of leaves on to a cupcake. That would ruin the buttercream.

Jakarta-based pastry chef Iven Kawi is a glorious example of how brilliant the plants and puddings combination can be.

She makes cakes decorated with buttercream sculpted to look like cacti, succulents, and flower petals sitting in grass or dirt.

The end result: terrarium cakes and cacti… Read the full story

Two-year-old has the cutest ‘argument’ with her boyfriend on her toy phone

April 28, 2017, 4:40 am

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Fighting with your partner? Let two-year-old Mila get to the bottom of things for you. 

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She’s not scared of anything – or anyone. And she definitely doesn’t fear giving a good telling off to her boyfriend, who she saw hanging with another girl while at playgroup.

Mila was so mad at her boyfriend, Sawyer, that she decided to take her toy phone and let rip on the silence from the other end.

In a hilarious video filmed by her parents in Arizona, Mila is seen giving Sawyer a piece of her mind on her little… Read the full story

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Vegan in Cardiff: 15 of the best places to eat in the Welsh capital

April 28, 2017, 5:29 am

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Wales may be known for its meaty stews and dairy-filled treats but if you know where to look in the capital of Cardiff, you will uncover many a vegan meal with barely a leek in sight.

Despite having only one fully vegan restaurant, there is plenty of choice right across the city.

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You will find everything from high-end veggie cuisine and cheap and simple homemade curry to chain bars and restaurants.

You can even grab yourself some vegan Welsh cakes in Cardiff Market.

Top local blog and Instagram accounts such as Vegging It and… Read the full story

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April 28, 2017, 5:48 am

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As any attempted-Instagrammer of a Casserole will know, taking brilliant pictures of food is no easy feat.

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So we’ll happily give due credit to those who actually manage to capture food in all its glory.

With one picture, great food photographers can fill us with cravings, spark hunger pangs, make us want to buy things, or urge us to get cooking. That’s a pretty powerful skill.

To celebrate the best of the best, behold a bunch of photos from the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year… Read the full story

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April 28, 2017, 5:54 am

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The wedding season is almost here and if you are tying the knot in the next few months, you may have started wondering how your could keep the younger guests occupied during the big moments.

Children can make the best guests at weddings.

20 ways kids annoy the heck out of their parents

They’re always the first on the dance floor, they look cute in their little suits and dresses, and they can quickly help break the ice between guests.

But there is no getting away from the… Read the full story

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April 28, 2017, 6:37 am

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At some point or other, we’ve all dated a proper dick.

We’ve all had to put up with being fat shamed or being cheated on or being fobbed off in favour of nights out.

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After a while, you sort of think that that’s your lot. You’re doomed to forever be in an unsatisfactory relationship with someone who loves their friends a lot more than you and who’ll never introduce you to their family because you’re ‘too aggressive’.

But then you start dating someone who is a genuinely nice person.

And I don’t mean nice in the wishy-washy,… Read the full story

Can you spot the venomous snake camouflaged amongst nature?

April 28, 2017, 7:07 am

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If you’re struggling to concentrate this morning, this article is not for you – because it requires you to have eyes like a hawk.

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We all love an optical illusion, but this one is particularly hard.

A herpetology student named Helen recently tweeted a photo of a snake completely blended into nature. So much so that it’s simply impossible to spot it at first glance (unless you truly do have eyes like a hawk).

Helen, who’s from Florida, was sent the photo by Whitney G. Walkowski, a fellow herpetology student. Read the full story