Beyond The Ski Slopes - Connecting With People and Place In Colorado
Responsible tourism may not seem to go hand in hand with the USA, particularly when its most shouted-about tourism offerings are often Disneyland and Las Vegas. And yet over the last couple of years,...
View ArticleFour Steps to Reduce Stress In 2015 - How to Reduce Stress
Stress-is-stress and it doesn't matter the time of the year, if you are struggling with stress then it needs addressing, usually with the New Year comes some time for reflection and the chance to do...
View ArticleSix Ways Christmas Is Different in Australia
No doubt about it - Christmas creeps up on us just that much faster each year, don't you think? Every year, us POMs (Brits) always muse (occasionally with a 'soupcon' of a whinge) about how Christmas...
View ArticleMalnutrition - Your Child's Silent Killer?
Think about malnutrition and you probably imagine harrowing images of desperately hungry children batting for survival as a result famine or war driven food shortage. These types of harrowing images...
View ArticleWhy Everyone Needs a Fluffy Animal This Christmas
With Christmas on its way, we're all fumbling around looking for the perfect gift to buy our loved ones. Many of you might be considering buying a pet - a puppy for your family, a guinea pig for your...
View ArticleOvercoming Christmas Anxiety
Christmas is a time for peaceful relaxation by the fire right? Wonderful times with family and friends? Peaceful, gentle walks in the country side and non stop magic and fun?! Well, not always. As a...
View ArticleGame Terrine
This makes an impressive starter for a supper party, served with home-made quince jelly or spiced pears and a few elegantly-arranged salad leaves, but it's equally good for lunch with hunks of country...
View ArticleWishing You a Holiday Season Aflame With Gratitude!
Picture this. You gather family and friends of all ages in a large room and ask each person to hold a single, unlit candle. Then you turn out the lights. In the darkness, you ask someone to tell you...
View ArticleFive Ways Men Shop Like Pac-Man
Shopping for clothes is the opposite of convenient. I don't know about you but I only shop a couple of times a year, and if I ever decide to visit a clothing store or shopping mall - especially over...
View ArticleThe Power of Action
These last couple of months have been really tough. It feels like the carefree happiness of the past years all somehow caught up with me. I mean, I'm always 'on it' when it comes to life's...
View ArticleSix Luxury South African Hotels
Waterlily pond at Fancourt Hotel ©Olivia Greenway With the rand weak, South Africa - apart from being sun filled for most of the year, having superb locally grown food, excellent wine and high...
View ArticleChildhood Christmas Memories - There Was Almost Always Snow
The smell of one-sided toast with melted butter - it was always done on just one side under the grill, crisp and melty. Tea for the grown-ups, milk for us. Sitting by the fire that my grandmother had...
View ArticleWhy a New Partner Boosts Your Sex Life
A new scientific review into the apparently inevitable decline of sexual desire, and arousal, in response to 'partner familiarity', has just been published from the University of British Columbia....
View ArticleBoxing Day Sales 2014: Retailers Taking Part And Best Buys
As people wind down for Christmas, there's one thing on the horizon that we can't help but get a tiny bit excited about. And that, fellow shopaholics, is the Boxing Day sales. Okay, admittedly it's the...
View Article'Masterchef' Contestant Can't Open The Lid On A Jar, But Fortunately Her Dad...
We've all been there. Unable to get the lid off a jar of sauce... while competing in a timed round in the final of 'Masterchef' Brazil. Fortunately for Elisa Fernandes, however, her father Sidney was...
View ArticleMen Use #MenimistTwitter To Discuss Gender Equality And Their Issues With...
Any true feminist knows that feminism is about gender equality - not man hating. But unfortunately it seems some guys on Twitter do not think feminism speaks for them. These men have branded themselves...
View ArticleHeartwarming Stories Of Christmas Spirit: Pubs And Takeaways Offer Free Meals...
When we're stressing about overcooked turkey or whether our other half really liked that painfully expensive watch, it's easy to forget that for people in need Christmas can be just another freezing...
View ArticleA Life Changing Tour of Sarajevo - The Residence Room
For a cohort of four Australians traveling to Bosnia more specifically Sarajevo, it was met with some serious questions from our parents. Pushing their ideas, and pre-existing trains of media washed...
View ArticlePukey Pup Provides The Perfect Reason As To Why You Should Never Feed Your...
Before you ask "is this some kind of canine Exorcist remake?" The answer is, quite simply, no. This, ladies and gentleman, is why you should NEVER feed your dog chocolate. SEE ALSO: Golden Retriever...
View ArticleThe Week In 50 Funny Tweets: Starring North Korea, 'The X Factor', Christmas...
And so the end of the year approaches... Google's Top Ten searches of 2014 read like a melancholy Larkin poem for our time. pic.twitter.com/EaRp5AdqMf— tom jamieson (@jamiesont) December 16, 2014 And...
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