Lifestyle

By Ellie Meakin from HouseSitMatch.com Christmas in London can be beautiful. The endless rows of twinkling lights, roasted chestnuts on every street corner and the continuous flow of fake snow being pumped out of Oxford Street. It can be hard to get into the festive spirit when you are still working every hour available, and have home and pet sitting arrangements to organise too. If you’re like me this year, no matter how many mince pies I wolf down, I’m still...

By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_lifestyle Women have helped sculpt the modern world for centuries, and now research can reveal the top 40 women who have made a huge impact on this little planet we live on. Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale and Margaret Thatcher have been named as the top three women who changed the world as we know it. Regarded as the most iconic woman in science, Marie Curie’s pioneering work in chemistry made her the first woman ever to win a Nobel prize and...

Generation Vain has officially arrived, new research suggests, with men increasingly finding inspiration from stars such as David Beckham and George Clooney when it comes to their beauty regimes. The study, conducted by lastminute.com, found more than a third of men get beauty treatment more than once a month compared to only a quarter of women, with the most popular treatments requested by men ranging from hot shaves (41 per cent) to relaxing massages (33 per cent), facials (16 per...

By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle When I was little I broke a washing machine, and it cost loads of money. Luckily it wasn't mine, it belonged to the boy up the street who used to pull my hair. Ok let's be honest it was his mum's and it wasn't her fault he used to beat me up. Anyway, my act of mindless vandalism aside, it turns out a lot of other children damage their own homes...by accident. The average...

By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle I don't have children but I do have to avoid the careless hazardous driving around the time of the school run. More than a quarter of mums have had an accident after being distracted by their children, on the way. A study carried out among 1,500 driving mums also found one in five have narrowly avoided striking another vehicle whilst changing radio channels at the kid’s request. And school run mums are losing their...

There are few cities in the world that showcase the turn of the seasons quite like London, and as such, as a London dweller, you become quite attached to the classical seasonal traits. Summers spent sat on rooftop terraces sipping Prosecco and munching on Mediterranean-style salads, autumns in warm pop-up restaurants nursing a large glass of Pinot Noir and eating game,  winter spent wrapped up next to a log fire and the spring spent dining on as many bowls of...

Christmas is a magical time in London. Father Christmas once said that “if it wasn’t for the abundance of skilled seasonal labour in Lapland, I would have set up shop in London”, but if we missed out on the workshops, we certainly got his sales floor. Harrods lit in all its glory in Knightsbridge, Selfridges on Oxford Street, Fenwicks in the heart of Mayfair and the behemoth Westfield shopping centres located to the east and west of the capital makes...

By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor, @TLE_lifestyle Ok I admit it, when the clocks go back and it's dark at 5pm, ALL I want to do is retreat to my living room, with a HUGE box of chocolates (well for as long as chocolate exists) and sit there, vegetating until spring. I always thought I wasn't alone and new research has confirmed it, thank the lord. Women are LAZY in winter; boys deal with it. I will tone up for a...

By Charlotte Hope Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle I get really blubbery in the Winter. I hate it. It’s cold and I want to stay indoors and drink tea and eat chocolate/anything in the house. Everything in the house. In addition, the second the clock strikes midnight on December 1st it is a struggle not to eat my entire advent calendar and drink gallons of mulled wine. A friend of mine has a theory that in December ‘a cold wind blows’ and...