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    How To Get A Mortgage When You Are Self-Employed 

    Buying your first home is a magical feeling, as you move away from renting in London, and start adulting. Renting small box rooms are a thing of the past, as are chaotic house shares with strangers, and the thought of sharing with nine people in one house again sends shivers down your spine. Instead, you look forward to a brand new tomorrow, in a flat, where it is just you and your partner, moving in together. But getting a mortgage when you are self-employed can be difficult. You struggle to get on the property ladder as a first-time buyer, and worry that your fluctuating income can stop lenders from approving your mortgage. If you are self-employed, it can be more of a challenge ... read more

    5 Colourful Summer Interior Trends For 2021

    Interior design as we know it has changed post-lockdown. With many of us still working from home, there has been a move away from open-plan living, and a growing importance on placing a divider between our 'work' and 'personal lives'. Instead of using our bedrooms to work, play, and relax, we want functional areas that help us stop becoming overwhelmed when we are working from home. We are no longer using our homes to simply 'eat, drink and sleep' but our houses have become professional spaces too, as we double up as party hosts, entrepreneurs and home owners. That is why the interior design industry needs to adapt, and create colourful summer interior trends that support remote ... read more

    7 Easy Ways To Bring Colour Into Your Home 

    As a self-confessed colour lover, there is nothing that I love more than immersing myself in a rainbow of colours, textures and prints. From floral prints, with exaggerated digital blooms to bold pillar box red, I see the world as an infinitely better place, when its navigated through colour. After all, when you bring colour into your Instagrammable home, you are using colour psychology to create an emotionally healthy home. When you use the principles of colour therapy to infuse your home with happy memories, you bring yourself pure, unadulterated joy. Creating happiness at home is vital to our mental and physical wellbeing, and boosts our immune system, productivity and satisfaction in ... read more

    11 Best Caravan Holiday Parks In The UK

    Sun tinged skies shaded with blue, the waves come crashing to teal shores. A young vibrant mum in an Aztec print bikini tenderly cradles her beaming toddler, brown pigtails swaying in the wind. Together they get their first taste of the ocean together, its gravitational pull coaxing them into a content slumber, the winds wrapping them in a blanket of love. She smiles, their first caravan holiday together, in West Wittering. She remembers her foster mum who raised her, who introduced her to caravan holiday parks in the UK. Nunnington Farm was their go-to. All these years later, her foster mum still loved caravanning, preferring beautiful UK staycations, than a trip abroad. While A ... read more

    Online Blogging Courses For Bloggers In The Uk

    As bloggers we take on many disguises. We are content marketers masquerading as photographers, who spend hours editing photos, blog posts and social media. One day we are writers, weaving narratives plucked out of thin air, the next we are entrepreneurs, instilling our identity in a genie bottle of dreams.We are collectors, guardians and curators of stories, who network with creatives to share our vision with the world. We take online blogging courses for bloggers, with the hope of finding legit ways to make money from home, full time. SEO, social media and long-tail keywords, these are the blogging buzzwords that crawl into our minds, as we spend months studying online, in the hopes ... read more

    The Best Vegetarian Restaurants In Abu Dhabi

    Ana was a food lover at heart, who craved her next culinary adventure to tame her curious heart. As a child she had fantasized about the magic of food and travel, scribbling away in her notebook of dreams as she ticked all the countries off her list. There would be idyllic countryside staycations in the UK, clotted cream and punchy jam scones in an afternoon tea bonanza. In Madeira, she'd sip on Nikkita's by the basalt sand beaches, gorging on Milho frito and Pastel de Nata with childlike wonder. And who could forget a holiday with her bestie in Tuscany, marvelling at the rustic vineyards that plied her with seductive burrata, wrapped around sun-drenched tomatoes in a lavish dance. She ... read more

    5 Ways To Grow Your Small Business With AI

    For centuries artificial intelligence has captivated our attention. Like the industrial revolution, AI is a central tenant for disruptive change, and has challenged our perception of what it means to be human in the modern age. The idea of devising machines capable of thinking and acting like humans, might have seemed like a modern idea, but in fact had appeared in Greek mythology. Greek myths of Hephaestus and Pygmalion incorporated the idea of intelligent robots and artificial beings, long before we learnt how to grow our small business with AI. Sacred mechanical statues built in Egypt and Greece were believed to be capable of wisdom and emotion, but it wasn't until the 1955 that AI ... read more

    Creative Date Night Ideas For Disabled People 

    Disability comes in all shapes and sizes. Contrary to popular belief, disability isn't just confined to wheelchair users or those who have 'physical mobility' issues like Cerebal Palsy, but also those who have mental health conditions like severe depression and chronic illnesses like Fibromylagia. Whether you are deaf or hard of hearing, have vision impairment or have a learning disability, it's important that we don't reduce people with disabilities to their disabilities. Instead, we should be inclusive, and think of quirky date night ideas for disabled people that don't generalize their experience or 'infantalize' their disability. Disability encompasses an incredibly broad spectrum ... read more

    How Can First Time Buyers Get On The Property Ladder?

    Now that the property market is opening up, and we are coming out of lockdown, prospective buyers are searching for their dream first home to make their lives complete. Cosy, intimate flats furnished with neutral plush rugs, and minimalist paintings, are contrasted with tumbledown cottages, charming and petite, crawling ivy to add to a fairytale picture. Sprawling eco-friendly houses with acres of farmland, black and white cows liaising with brown horses, as they compete for 'their human's' attention. But how can first time buyers get on the property ladder? Buying a house, especially your first home is a complex process, and there is a lot that you need to consider. For a start, can ... read more

    How To Work from Home In Lockdown

    Now, more than ever, we are choosing to work from home in lockdown, and are finding value in becoming our own bosses, being self-employed and working from anywhere, and everywhere. After all, there is nothing that is more freeing than setting our own working hours, and being a self-made entrepreneur. This is a trend that is only set to continue as more work and collaboration takes place online and the need for physical office space diminishes with the ubiquity of home computers and reliable internet connections. As someone who has worked from home, both as a freelancer and working in a full time job, I can truly put my hand on my heart and say that I absolutely love to work from home ... read more