Edinburgh is my favourite city in the world. If you haven’t been, then you need to take a long hard look in the mirror and consider when you’ll make the time to get there. For me it’s a 90-minute train journey and costs around £20 for the tickets; so, I have no excuse. Every time…
Mental Health: Seeking Help
Seeking help. The more I write about mental health, the more people message me and share their experiences. It’s wonderful to hear them, not about their suffering; but the fact that they feel comfortable enough to talk about their mental health and the problem’s they are experiencing. There’s one thing that comes up over again,…
MHA – Anxiety
The English language works in mysterious ways and while I write this I find myself wondering how big a part the language we use plays into our mental health. For the last 12 months I have been trying to balance selfish and selfless; one is defined as caring only for oneself and the other as…
Things to do in Prague
I’m starting with my most recent trip for my first #FileAwayFriday – The Concept of this segment is to provide recommendations for places to go and today I’m looking at Prague. I spent 5 days there in July and I have to say it’s one of my favourite cities to date. Where we stayed I…
On The Bar: Mclean’s Something Blue
If there was ever a gin with a love story; this is it. I was pointed towards @mcleansgin by the very lovely Claire and after a little bit of googles I found a story about a couple who started making gin in a cupboard under their stairs that had gone on to be nominated for…
Mental Health: Assumptions
I wasn’t sure what to do the first #Mental Health Monday’s post on. I planned to do it on a little bit of an introduction to my history with mental health, but when trying to write it that all became a little too scary (which is ironic given the focus of this is to help…
On The Bar: Micro Bar Box – Cocktail Box
The lovely people at Micro Bar Box asked if they could send me one of their cocktail boxes to try and review. Their concept is simple, you can order a box to send to a friend for whatever occasion and they’ll deliver a set that allows them to make a few drinks at home on…
On The Bar: Malfy Rosa Gin
We all know how I feel about a pink gin and this one is no different, it’s on the sweeter side of gin, both in the smell and the taste. The Malfy Rosa Gin is a pink grapefruit gin that also contains rhubarb, juniper, coriander, angelica root, orris root and of course lemon peel (as…
On The Bar: Bareksten Gin
This weeks #onthebar is a special one. It’s come from @jbeimports who import premium spirits to find the best on offer… I have to say it’s an exceptionally tough life when you have to try them 😛 but this @barekstengin found its way to me and I’ve enjoyed trying it. I’ve served it with raspberries,…
On The Bar – Distillers of Surrey
OK, I’ve been on a winning streak with the gins that I’ve been reviewing lately and I’m struggling a little because there hasn’t been one that I don’t like. This is made even more difficult by the fact that they’re all in beautiful bottles and whilst I put three extra shelves up in the bar…