Category Archives: Lifestyle

Lifestyle, Technology 29th February 2016 No comments

Too much screen time? A digital detox retreat is the answer

We now live in a society where a third of all adults prefer to text rather than talk and social media use and the use of smartphones at the table is leading to illnesses such as stress, obesity and high blood pressure.

Online life is taking its toll more than we realise and the answer is to have a digital detox. This means disconnecting from the internet and having the chance to reconnect with the real world. It’s hard to do this completely with the pressures of work so there are now a wide number of relaxing digital detox retreats springing up around the world; each with a unique offering. Continue reading…

Lifestyle, Money, Tips and Tricks 28th January 2016 No comments

Instructing an Injury Lawyer for a Brain Injury Compensation Claim

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Brain injuries can be one of the most devastating and life-changing types of injuries, and with around 125,000 people suffering from a brain injury that requires treatment each year, it can be difficult to know who to turn to following such an accident. Fortunately, brain injury lawyers, with vast experience helping people hold those responsible to account for their brain injuries, are ready to help. Continue reading…

Lifestyle 10th November 2015 No comments

The benefits of an artificial lawn

The artificial lawn industry has grown quickly over the last few years. Once only used on large-scale sports pitches, it’s now just as likely to be seen as the lush surface for a neighbouring garden as for a football field.

The reason for this increase in awareness in the product and the benefits to using one covers three areas; the enhanced technology to create fake grass which looks just as good as the real thing, the economic savings due to the durability factor and helping the global climate.

Health and Beauty, Lifestyle 2nd November 2015 No comments

Benefits of hiring gym equipment

If you’re like most people on the planet you will have struggled with joining and staying at a gym. The hard work involved in developing the discipline required for regular gym attendance is a real problem, and many people just leave their gym memberships to languish while they get on with their busy lives. This is why having gym equipment at home is becoming the next big thing for vast parts of the population. But buying gym equipment can be costly and this is what may have put people off before. Things have changed though, and with the increasingly popular option of hiring gym equipment from companies like Hire Fitness, anyone can have a solution in their home that gives them the fitness they deserve. Continue reading…

Lifestyle, Tips and Tricks 22nd October 2015 No comments

Managing your child’s prom night

When your child is old enough to have a prom night, you may start to worry. Not only are there some issues around behaviour and how to advise your child in this area, there are also some significant financial aspects. In this post, we will look at ways in which you can ensure that prom night is both an enjoyable time for your child, as well as a stress-free period for you. Take some of the ideas in the post on board, and you should find that prom night is not the awful logistical and financial nightmare that you expect it to be.

Lifestyle 20th October 2015 No comments

Prom night transport

Prom night is a big thing. Whether it’s for a bunch of 11 year olds leaving Primary school (yes, they have Proms) or a group of university students going to an end of year ball, there will always be a need to have high quality transport for people setting out to have the night of the year. Right now, there are so many options for transport on a night like that, you could be forgiven for feeling a little confused. This article is an attempt to make sense of the crazy madness that is prom night transport.

Lifestyle 15th September 2015 No comments

3 free and easy exercise hacks

Exercise is absolutely essential, but that doesn’t mean it has to be boring. We’ve taken a look at some top exercise hacks that should make it easy for you to integrate exercise into your routine and therefore get a full-on exercise routine in place that doesn’t mean your life has to be turned upside down just because you want to get healthy.

Lifestyle 3rd July 2015 No comments

Forgotten Crafts

Get ahead of the trends

What do Kate Moss, Julia Roberts and star of Mad Men Christina Hendricks have in common other than being celebrity A-listers? The answer is that they love to knit in their spare time and all have been snapped on set with a pair of needles and wool between scenes in their latest blockbuster.

Lifestyle 10th December 2014 No comments

Why you should publish an ebook

They say that everyone has a novel inside them waiting to be written. This could be true of you, but if you think you’re more of an information junkie than hopeless romantic or zombie sci fi fan, then you’re just as likely to enjoy publishing success with the creation of an ebook.