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Our Practical Guide To Property Chains When Buying Or Selling
Moving homes is an exciting experience, especially if you’ve found your dream property, but it can also be a stressful time. If you’re new to buying and selling, property chains can be confusing and quite difficult to understand at first. If you need to sell your home before buying a new one, you’ll probably find yourself in a property chain. In our practical guide, we outline what a property chain is and cover tips for how to manage your property chain. What is a Property Chain? A property chain occurs when a series of homeowners need to sell their homes before they can buy another; this can also happen when…
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Dealing With Post-Lockdown Stress? How Modern Mums Can Avoid a Burnout
The lockdowns and restrictions we have been living with since March 2020 have caused significant amounts of stress and difficulty for everyone. As a mum living through this, there was the additional pressure of having kids around all the time as schoolwork became remote. Now, as we ease away from covid restrictions and lockdowns, many people are experiencing a great deal of stress. Whether you are struggling with the concept of returning to the office, or you are having trouble with the idea of being amongst large crowds again, there are some things you can do to eliminate stress and avoid burnout. Prioritise Sleep Getting the right amount of sleep…
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Ways to Keep Your Calm as a Mother
Mothers have a lot on their plates. They have the children to look after, a house to run, maybe they have a job to go to, and what about trying to maintain a social life. Juggling all this pressure is not an easy task. It can take its toll, even on the most relaxed of us. Sometimes the kids really love testing your patience, but it is in your control how you respond. If you can develop a calmer demeanour, you will benefit in so many ways. First off, you will have better mental health, stress will seem to flow away, and family life will become easier. With a calmer…
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Planning a Family Vacation Abroad – Documents and What to Pack
Planning a family vacation is a lot of work, but planning a family vacation abroad? It sounds almost impossible, but it really isn’t! You’re pushing the boundaries and trying to give your family a vacation they’ll never forget; that’s great! And you’ll be able to do without any hassles by just following some simple guidelines. That said, here are some tips on planning the ultimate family vacation abroad and how to keep everyone comfortable during your travels. Pick a destination Where will your family want to go? There are so many places you could choose from! Picking the destination is one of the crucial parts of the entire planning process…
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Into the Fold: What To Remember When Bringing a New Partner To Meet the Kids
It is a big step in bringing someone special into your life and you want to introduce them to the children. There are a few things that you need to consider. When you are in a relationship as a single parent, it can be stressful to think about how your children will handle the news. When you are bringing someone new into your life, what are the things you really need to consider, not just for the sake of the children, but for yourself? Is the Relationship Serious? You cannot guarantee that your significant other will be your partner for life, but you have to ensure there is some sense…
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Decluttering And Tidying Your Home: A Guide For The Busy Parent
Keeping your home neat and tidy is a never-ending struggle at the best of times. Finding the right methods to deal with your clutter is a fantastic way of tidying up your home and your mind. A fresh and clean living-space makes for a positive and healthy outlook on life—It’s said that clutter may contribute to depression and other negative mental health problems. Of course, keeping your home tidy is much easier said than done as a parent. We wanted to share some of our ideas to help you declutter your home, making it much easier to keep on top of those everyday cleaning tasks. Speedy Organising For a quick…
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Why remote working from abroad could make sense for you
Working abroad is an ambition for many people. For some, the first Covid 19 lockdown was the spur to achieving this dream. The logic was that if remote working was becoming the norm, you might as well do it from a fantastic location – provided it had an excellent wi-fi connection! So if you could do your job from anywhere – where would you choose and what’s so great about living abroad anyway? Every year the media is full of lists of ‘the best place to live’ and ‘cities with the best quality of life.’ According to a 2021 study, Switzerland has recently nudged Denmark aside as the country with…
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3 Ways to Transform Your Bathroom Into Your Own Spa Retreat
After a long week, all you want to do likely is draw yourself a luxurious bath and soak your stress away. However, if your bathroom is dated and looking worse for the wear, being in your bath might cause you to feel more stressed out than you were before. If this is how you feel whenever you walk into your bathroom and you want nothing more than to be able to retreat to your very own spa-like escape at the end of a long day, you might be thinking that the only way to achieve this is to invest time and money into a complete bathroom renovation. While that course…
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Here’s How To Ensure That You Still Feel Like Yourself As A Parent
When you have had a baby, everything changes. You need to find a way to make sure you feel like yourself again. That’s what we’re going to be talking about in this article, so keep reading if you would like to find out more. Consider A Beauty Routine You might feel as though you don’t have any time for a beauty routine now that you are a parent. You do, you will just have to fit it in wherever you have got a moment. When your kids are napping, or at night when they are in bed, or even in the morning when you first wake up before the kids.…
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How To Care For Your Fruit Trees
Protecting fruit trees usually means preventing the fruit from being eaten by birds and other creatures that love to gorge on free and tasty meals. But damage to fruit trees can also come at any time from fungi and insects that affect the bark or attack the leaves. Pruning carefully and at the right time of year for the type of tree is a good way to prevent fruit tree diseases. That said, a solidly constructed fruit cage combined with some high quality netting will definitely protect the juicy fruits from being eaten before you can get to them. And after all the love and care bringing your fruit trees…
