Medicines2U (For Me!)

You may remember that not too long ago I wrote a post about Medicines2U and how they would be helpful when stocking up on seasonal must-haves for the kids (first aid, scrapes and sunburn for summer, cold and flu relief for winter etc). Since then I have had a closer look at the site and never mind the children, (I love them really!), I’ve found several things on the site that excite me, as sad as that sounds.

Some of you who follow me on social media, especially Twitter will have had to listen to my whinging about the loss of my favourite facial exfoliating cream. I love a really gritting exfoliator and since my favourite Aapri scrub cream disappeared from “major” pharmacies and stores and I have been bereft (and spent a fortune testing sub-standard replacements). I was thrilled to fine that Medicines2U stock this now – hooray!

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They also stock my favourite slimming sweets (they don’t actually slim you down but are Slimming World friendly for me which is great when I have the odd sweet tooth moment but don’t want to blow my Syns!).

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They have fabulous and affordable whizzy toothbrushes (My dentist has suggested one of these as I have a wisdom tooth that has moved and is sore and hard to clean around (they won’t take the darn thing out until I have another “major infection”??) so this is also a bonus too.

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When it comes to treating myself clearly I am easily pleased however with prices like these I don’t exactly feel that I’m splashing out or blowing a budget.

I haven’t yet tried out the online pharmacy service however am very tempted as both Roy and I have a regular prescription to pick up each month and we have creams for Taylor’s sensitive skin on prescription too. I’ll let you know how I get on with them!

 

*This post was written in collaboration with the mention business yet is true to my own thoughts, feelings and experiences (and I am very chuffed to have found Aapri again!)

A More Modern Cladding Effect

As most of my readers know I am something of an interior design tart. I am a keen watcher of everything from Kirstie’s Handmade to DIY SOS and love to dabble in new design styles. Pinterest is a great source of inspiration as are the design blogs I love to read and one curious “comeback” style I have stumbled across recently is the new popularity surrounding wall cladding.

 

It turns out cladding is quite popular these days, this is just one of the many cladding-inspired pins on Pinterest at the moment.
It turns out cladding is quite popular these days, this is just one of the many cladding-inspired pins on Pinterest at the moment.

For many, wall cladding invokes images of dark dingy wooden cladding in stuffy drawing rooms however times have changed. I saw several cracking pictures recently of how cladding changed a room when I was researching the new colours for my living room (grey/yellow/mustard but don’t tell Roy, I haven’t told him yet I’m changing the colour scheme again).

When the Decor Cladding Centre was introduced to me I was tickled to find that what I thought of as cladding, while not as old fashioned as some views, is actually quite modern and that you are now even able to get bathroom cladding and bathroom wall panels which completely change the way that your bathroom looks and yet is not susceptible to mould and the other nasties that comes with being in a warm and damp environment such as a bathroom.

There certainly seems scope for cladding to change a lot of rooms in a dramatic way (great if updating a property for example) and this is something I may well look closer at in the future, especially instead of replacing tiles!

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*This post was written in collaboration with the mentioned business yet is true to my own thoughts, feelings and experiences. It turns out that I do actually get most excited by the idea of cladding and other such interior design related things things.