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Blog a day June | Cruelty Free Beauty Haul - Superdrug Edition!

Blog a day June | Cruelty Free Beauty Haul – Superdrug Edition!

Hello everyone!

It’s the weekend and I had a bit to do today, so I thought I’d show you some of the bits and bobs I picked up in the beauty department. Everything I picked up today is cruelty free which is good for my conscience.

Micellar Water – B (£2.19)

Micellar Water is used to cleanse and tone your skin. I personally use it twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening so I…

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I went on a date...

I went on a date…

I haven’t been on a first date in over three years, I forgot how overwhelming it can be. It was over three weeks ago now and I’m not entirely sure how it went. So I’ll start at the beginning of a very condensed version without any names.

I signed up for OKCupid a few months ago, mainly for the quizzes, and I was swiping through pretty much sending a message to every cute guy I saw that was a…

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#DearJune | Beginnings

I can’t believe it’s June already! It only seems like yesterday that I was raising a glass to New Years and now we are half way through the year. It’s frightening how fast time is going by.

It also means that it’s been a year since I started this blog. I thought to celebrate I’d bring it full circle and end the year with a blog a day like I started. It also fell nicely in time to join in with…

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Where have you been?

Where have you been?

This is a problem I think I’ve always suffered with. I have so many good ideas and I start writing about them and then I realise that all my ideas and very similar and I worry that my readers will get bored of reading similar posts all the time. So I take a break and then I don’t know how to get back into the swing of things.

I started this blog as a woman who has PCOS and I wanted to document…

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PCOS explained to Loved Ones

PCOS explained to Loved Ones

I asked some people what sort of things they would want to see from this blog and a lot of people wanted a way to explain PCOS to their partner or friends who don’t have it and don’t understand what it is. So I thought I’d put it in a letter, I’ve addressed it to Loved Ones, but you can swap it out for who ever you want to write the letter to.

Dear Loved One

I may or may not have told you about…

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If We Were Having a Coffee Right Now

If We Were Having a Coffee Right Now

Back in June, I did a blog post called If we were having a coffee right now, and I really enjoyed writing it. I thought I could make it a regular feature. I’ll have to think up a good name for the feature, like Giovanna Fletcher did a few video called Coffee with Gi, or something like that. I need to think of something punny. Maybe you can leave your ideas in a comment.

So grab yourself a cup…

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Today, I thought I’d show you how to make a Fake-Away – Chinese style. This is one of my favourite recipes and it is so easy to make. This recipe is inspired by Pinch Of Nom’s recipe which you can find here.

However, I added half a scotch bonnet to the mix, swapped the avocado frylight for Garlic frylight, and left out the stock cube and baby corn (which I’ll admit is confusing seeing as…

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Dark Days

Most of the time I try to look on the bright side of things. I would class myself as a glass half full kind of person. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is one of my favourite songs. (It’s not I just wanted the excuse to put this clip in!)

Some people think its naivety, but for me it is a conscious decision. Like the line from…

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Well I told you I would be going on an adventure today! Me and a couple of friends went to the West Midlands Safari Park to see all the animals! It’s been just over a year since I last went and although not a lot has really changed, its always nice going because there are different animals out all the time!

    While we didn’t get to see the Tawny Lions, we did see a lot of White Lions (which I learned are the same breed as the Tawny ones, the colour is caused by a gene mutation, how interesting!) and Giraffes, which were the favourite of our car!

    We had a child in our car as well, and she loved looking at all the animals, but she did get a bit scared when they were putting the heads in the vehicle to eat the food they give you, but all in all she was really good (and so cute!) She taught us all the names for the characters from Peppa Pig, which is information I really needed!

    After the Safari, there is the chance to walk around a smallish theme park, with more animals and shows, and some rides, but our little person was a bit too small to go on any rides, but it just means we’ll have to go again, which I don’t mind! There is also the Land of the Living Dinosaurs, which is amazing! They’ve built loads of Dinosaurs that move so realistically, its so good!

  There is also a new part of the park called the Ice Age, which wasn’t there the last time I went. You can do a long walk around this part, or the short walk, we chose the short walk because we wanted to go to the Sea Lion Show, but all of the animatronic animals that we saw were so good, and I imagine the others were as well, so I’d definitely go again, even if its just to see that!

We didn’t get to go to Lemur Woods, Hippo Lakes or Meerkat Mayhem, but again, it just means we’ll have to go back again.  The weather held off for us to, it did get a bit cloudy and breezey towards the end of the day, but while we were there the weather was lovely.

All in all, an absolutely lovely day that I would love to repeat!

What is your favourite animal? Leave a comment below and let me know!

Back tomorrow with a recipe post! Are you excited?

Blog a Day June | Safari Adventure Well I told you I would be going on an adventure today! Me and a couple of friends went to the West Midlands Safari Park to see all the animals!

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Blog a Day June | If we were having a coffee right now...

Blog a Day June | If we were having a coffee right now…

This style originated from Girl with the Red Hair and I liked it a lot, so I’m stealing the idea!

So, grab your favourite mug and coffee, tea, or your hot beverage of choice, and settle in for a nice chat.

If we were having a coffee right now, I’d tell you I’ve got so much work to do, but I can’t seem to be motivated to do it. I feel the more stuff I have on my to-do list the longer it takes me…