Category: Features
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REVIEWED: Sushi and Bento, Basildon
*This post contains Amazon affiliate links, which means if you use them I make a small amount at no cost to you. While I’ve been recovering from a particularly nasty Crohn’s flare-up, I’ve led more or less the least interesting life in the world. This is why there has been a huge lack of reviews on…
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REAL LIFE: Grifted or Gifted? Don’t let Yourself get Taken in by Serial Scammers
Being fooled by someone incredibly convincing on social media is something that can happen to the best of us. It’s nothing to feel ashamed of, and some people can be very convincing. Let’s take two opposite ends of the spectrum; on one side, you have Martin Lewis, who fundraises for charity, gives free financial advice to those…
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REVIEWED: Is Twitter Blue Worth the Money?
The other morning I woke up and during my morning check of Twitter I noticed a notification telling me that unless I got Twitter Blue, I would lose two-factor authentication. Since Elon took over Twitter, I’d seen a lot of complaints about it, but I lived in a little cocoon where it didn’t seem to directly…
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REVIEWED: Athletic Greens (AG1)
Any regular readers will know what I am like for products that are meant to help my health. Although I have only just been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, I have been dealing with the symptoms for a long time. I never used to absorb vitamins orally, so I got into the habit of having regular Vitamin…
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RECIPE: Easy Dairy-free Creamy Tomato Pasta
*This post contains Amazon affiliate links, which means if you use them I make a small amount at no cost to you. What you can and cannot eat with Crohn’s disease is very personal to the individual, but out of everyone I have spoken to with the same condition as me, seem to agree that either lactose…
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REVIEWED: Constable Lodges, Suffolk
*This post contains Amazon affiliate links, which means if you use them I make a small amount at no cost to you. By now, you lot are probably bored to tears with reading about my Crohn’s diagnosis and my recovery from the hospital story. But the reason I need to mention them is for context. Knowing I was…
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REAL LIFE: Are you Addicted to TikTok?
It seemed to come out of nowhere, didn’t it? One minute we are all furiously updating our Instagram stories and buying teeth whitening strips advertised in-between stories, and the next minute all of the youngsters are going on about TikTok. Initially, it didn’t seem either fun or accessible to people that didn’t like dancing. Dances…
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RECIPE: EASY Chicken Fried Rice (but Make it Crohn’s)
*This post contains Amazon affiliate links, which means if you use them I make a small amount at no cost to you. If you are a regular reader, first of all, sorry for all the rubbish I talk, and secondly, you’ll know I have recently been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. This has been swings and roundabouts for…
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TIPS: Shops you HAVE to Visit in London
I don’t live in London, but because I have worked there for so long, I do feel part of it enough to understand the attitude that all “touristy” places are negative. Yes, no one likes to pretend to be cool and edgy more than a London dweller or worker who thinks they are too good…
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REAL LIFE: Joining the Crohn’s Crew
If you read my recent blog about my recovery from the hospital, you’ll know that I recently had a long stay due to a terrible flare-up of an undiagnosed IBD. My consultant finally caught up with me properly last week and advised me that I have Crohn’s. It was always his first suspicion when I went in…
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