We are looking for a way to cover pool in the back garden, now that we have a puppy that will be allowed outdoors in a few days time once he’s had his final vaccinations we really need to make sure he can’t go falling in to it and getting himself into a pickle – we’d like to teach him to swim or see if he does it instinctively but for the short-term it needs to be covered.

I am on the look out for discount pool pumps at the moment if any one knows of a site that sells them? Thankfully I am in no rush to get them as I imagine shipping would be slow wherever I ordered from now what with it being Christmas and New Year. I might wait until after Christmas and hope I can get some in the January sales.

I was looking at plaques earlier as I thought it might be a cute novelty gift for my other half to get him a trophy saying ‘worlds best boyfriend’ or something equally as soppy and cheesy

It’s not the sort of gift we usually get for each other as we tend to stick to more practical items – but it’s nice to have a change now and then, right?

Well it’s taken me until a week before Christmas and with just a few online shopping days left I have finally decided to get my dad some nice cufflinks as his gift – he’s really tricky to buy for as he never wants any thing and would be genuinely happy if you didn’t give him any thing. But he does like to wear cufflinks and with so many to choose from there’s always room to buy more in different styles and the like that he doesn’t already have!

I might ask for some eyelash growth products for Christmas this year, I have always wanted longer lashes and I struggle a lot with the false ones – it takes me about 15 minutes per lash to get them on and looking right and don’t even get me started on how long it take me to get them off again. I would love it if I didn’t have to faff about with all that but could still have longer ones