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Retail Therapy

June 15, 2020

This morning the UK has already seen a great demand for its retailers, long queues outside of the Oxford Street Primark and prices slashed by up to 70%!Our high streets haven’t seen shops open for nea...

Fun Facts About Harrogate

June 05, 2020

We love our spa town home for so many reasons, and here are just a few more…1. Harrogate was once two small villages, High Harrogate and Low Harrogate.2. Harrogate hosted the Eurovision song...

A Nation of Shopkeepers

May 21, 2020

Napolean Bonaparte once said that we were a nation of shopkeepers. It was meant in a derisory way, naturally. But, many true words said in jest? That we are a nation of shopkeepers and we are also a p...

Holiday Planning

May 11, 2020

As Boris’s latest instruction sinks in, we adjust to our new normal (again!)More now than ever, we find our minds wandering and imagining our next break, and as the ‘stay at home’ message lifts, we ma...

Coping Mechanisms

April 24, 2020

In times of crisis what do you turn to? Having spoken to several friends and family, I have realised personally that we all cope with things differently. Likewise, what worked in the first couple of w...

Education for the whole community

April 22, 2020

When we have asked our friends and family, and read in and around the home schooling landscape of today, we see a varying situation.Whilst some children are thriving in their homes with both parents a...