Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
Some mornings you wake up and feel incredible, and others you spend the whole day wondering why your life isn’t, well, a little bit better. Often there is a range of small changes you can make that will have a more significant impact. Obviously, habits are built over time, and you shouldn’t be too hard on yourself if you find them difficult to maintain in the early days. Here are some ideas about what you can do to improve your lifestyle.
It is never too early to say the C-word – Christmas! Right now, there are only 99 days until Christmas 2019! Are you all excited for it yet? I know some of you might have already made a list of gifts for everyone on your list but some might still be looking for the perfect gift for their perfect one. On the other hand, I’m sure there will be many who will leave it until the last minute!
For parents of children in primary school and kindergarten, life is pretty simple. Most of the stationery they need is provided by the school, and all you need to do is ship them off with a packed lunch. When they transition to secondary school, however, things change, and you need to buy their stationery and school supplies. Here are some things you should remember to buy.
Why people are going to London to change their life
People make bucket lists, in a bid to ensure that when they get to the end of the road, they can look back and state that they had a life well-lived. A lot of those bucket lists always include travel, and I’m sure yours does too. Below we will look at some of the reasons why people are going to London in particular and how it changes their life.
Now you can race head-to-head with the Angry Birds Red against King Mudbeard Leonard via this Angry Birds Island Challenge slot car set. It comes with variable speed hand-controllers that puts your skills to the test! This is suitable for aged six and above.
When we think about hobbies that border on obsessions, it’s easy to think of this as a pathological behavior. But that’s often not the case. Obsessions is often only a hairs breadth away from passion, and what might look like an over-the-top love for something from one angle might be considered a life-supporting and affirming hobby on the other.
If you have a similar passion (you’re likely thinking about it right now), it can be hard to both wish to share it and also keep it all to yourself at once, because those are the two directions you will likely wish to be pulled in.
Thankfully, there are more methods of sharing your love for something than ever before, and exercising in this hobby can not only help you take a natural breather away from practicing your intense passion, but it could help you get more out of it in a healthier, more in-depth manner.
This week, we were thrilled to review some awesome Fortnite and Pokemon merchandise from the home of officially licensed merchandise for all the family, Vanilla Underground! If you have not heard about them before, they are an online shop dedicated to fans of favourite movies, music, TV, art, gaming and comic books, who are looking for the latest fashion in t-shirts, hoodies, vests, sweaters, dresses, accessories, toys and gifts!
I am sure every parent wants to buy things that are safe for their children to use. The same goes for us. So I was delighted to learn that PuroQuiet headphones help protect children from hearing loss. They were developed by a father who realised his 10-year-old daughter had sustained Noise-Induced Hearing Loss from listening to music too loud, for too long. He found that there was no one addressing this issue adequately, so his family set about designing and developing the highest-quality, studio-grade, volume limiting to 85 decibels children’s headphone whilst still at an affordable price. Best of all, it can be used wirelessly via Bluetooth.
The OKIDO Which Way game is an exciting adventure game that teaches coding skills to children. Some parents with younger children might have heard of the OKIDO show on CBeebies, but if you haven’t heard about it, here’s a little bit of history about them. OKIDO started off from a children’s Arts & Science magazine and was later adapted into a preschool TV comedy adventure series that brings together creativity with science. It is very educational.
This is our last month working as Bandai STEM Ambassadors and we are so pleased that Bandai is giving one of their fantastic dig kits to one of my readers. We have reviewed quite a few kits like the Gemstone & Shark Tooth, Geode, Build Your Own Volcano and Growing Crystal & Sea Monkeys and they have never disappointed me in quality and for the educational benefits.
A reading nook is something many of us would say is on our dream home wishlist. We’d all like a cosy space where we can relax and read, sipping a nice hot chocolate and enjoying some precious alone time. Ideally, you’d like the walls lined with books, and a nice comfy seat to curl up in. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have the luxury of being able to have a full library at home. You might not even have a box room that you can convert into your own reading room. But, that doesn’t mean that you can’t have a reading nook. There’s nothing to stop you taking a boring and unused corner of another room and turning it into your perfect reading corner.
Can a home really be improved by style? When we think of sensible home improvements, we picture something like fixing the stairs so they won’t creak and squeak. We picture fixing the rubber door seal so rainwater won’t be allowed into the kitchen. We even picture creating a new garage that allows us to store our cars closer to our home. But we never think of style as a ‘home improvement’. The answer is, if done correctly it can be substantical way to increase your home’s sex appeal, admiration from guests and of course boost your home’s overall value. So many styles, so many designs, so much to choose from. Where should you begin? Start off with looking at where modern interior design actually got its wings from. It was the Art-Deco scene that began in the 1920s just as the Industrial Revolution was coming to slow down. Finally, modern homes could look truly modern.
I don’t know about you, but in this part of the world, summer has been amazing. The weather has seen the family spend a lot of the day in the garden having fun and not a tablet or phone screen in sight most of the time.
If you remember the post from a little while back on adding colour to the garden (which you can read here), you’ll know that taking time out to spruce up the garden and carrying out little DIY projects work wonders. It can change the garden from a neglected space to one the family can spend all day and night in when the weather is as fantastic as it’s been.
We are looking for the next UK Othello Junior Champion! Could that be you? Or do you know an Othello Champion under the age of 15? Why not get them to enter the UK Othello Junior Championship!
The UK Junior Othello Champs are for children under the age of 15 and will be held in Cambridge on 21st September 2019. The overall winner of the UK event will receive an all-expenses paid trip to the World Championships in Hong Kong in October! If you fancy entering the UK Champs then you can download the info and entry form here!
Today the 8th of August is International Cat Day and to celebrate this day, we were invited to check out this Cat Crimes game from ThinkFun and best of all, they are giving this game, worth £11.99, to one of my readers!
