Have to admit, until fairly recently, we'd never heard of the butter bell. We just did what I suppose most people do - keep the butter in fridge, where it's always too hard and cold. Or, leave it out in a butter dish and return to a swimming pool of buttery oil in...
If you've been wondering why the renovation updates suddenly stopped, you're certainly not alone. When we bought our Andalusian townhouse, I had every intention of documenting the journey as it happened. I imagined regular posts showing each stage of the...
Now that the dust is settling - quite literally - on our renovation project, I've started to reflect on the mad journey we have been on since July 2024, when we finally left Istria. In fact before then, because the journey started for real, when we finished the...
To be honest, a mouse in the house, was probably the last thing we needed after the last couple of months of storms and leaking roofs and the onset of a big repaint job throughout the house. But I suppose mice don't take into account the fact that you'd like a little...
We seem to forever buy pots of herbs - hello, basil and coriander, especially - which will often end up withered and only fit for the bin. They're always bought for a specific recipe, and whatever isn't immediately used on the plant, never seems to thrive, however...
As winter takes hold, this is a super delicious winter warmer - Fresh Pea & Mint Pesto with Butter Beans & Roasted Tomatoes. And, as far as I can tell, it's vegetarian and suitable vegans if the Greek yogurt is omitted and maybe an alternative used - although...
Over the years we've been finding that, especially over the summer, our use of plastic water bottles increases significantly. We always recycle plastics, but we were creating our own small mountain of bottles and often our plastics bin (which was only collected every...
I've followed Zoco Home on Instagram for a while now, always drooling over their Andalucian/Ibizan/Mallorcan inspired furnishings and accessories. I've never really clocked where they are physically, until recently, and realised that they have two stores, very close...
It's been a while since we've made our favourite Irish soda bread - https://wearelifestyles.com/cheesy-irish-soda-bread/ - because we've not had our own oven for so long. But, we wanted to get back into making bread - and bread which we knew contained only good stuff....
We have a Chinese Bazaar supermarket in our time, which is proving to be a bit of a treasure trove. We often find ourselves short of screws or nails, or can't find the mallet or need a tiny bit more spray paint and with our nearest big DIY store being half an hour...