Do you remember your first paid job?
My first job …was as a 16 year old Saturday girl at (the now defunct) Woolworth’s, where, for some strange reason, I usually managed to get what was regarded as the plum role amongst us of serving behind the cosmetics counter (this was in the days before self-service and paying at a check out). I’d [...]
Colour Your Kitchen Beautiful with a Glass Splashback…
A little diversion from my intended topic today, because I wanted to introduce an item in preparation for a rather tasty little competition we will be running next week for fans of BirdsOnTheBlog … the subject of which is a rather beautiful glass splashback! … so to make sure you’ll know exactly what to do with it [...]
Green Challenge – cutting the shopping bill in half.
I have discovered that one of our biggest expenses Image by Getty Images via Daylife over the month is food shopping bill and I reckoned with a little effort I could reduce it so I set myself a challenge. Could I shop for 2 weeks on 1 week’s money? Unlike some I don’t have a [...]
Rumuz; symbolism in jewellery
Jewellery was never used as adornment only but also as investment, protection, and representation of faith and unity. Hence, Jewellery is never short of pieces that symbolise various aspects of every day life such as little fish, scissor, key, hand, heart shape, spiral, horseshoe, shapes of some scary creatures like scorpions or snakes or lizards, [...]
In her shoes: My descent in entrepreneurial hell
In her shoes is a series of anonymous posts from women in business, sharing their experience. In your comments you are asked to answer the question – What would you do in her shoes? My story began 9 months ago; it is a story of self-realisation, friendship, love and betrayal. After 11 years at home [...]
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