Starflower
Best Halloween Pumpkins ever!
We found a fantastic blog post about Social Media Halloween Pumpkin Carvings and we are re- posting two of the pictures from that post here, because they show the two things that help us create this blog:
an Apple MacBook and the blogging platform WordPress. Huge spooky props to the pumpkin artists!
Climate Change Love Quote
This love quote picks off where our contribution to Blog Action Day left off:
“Love is a great illness: it always puts two people to bed!”
- Robert Lembke (German TV presenter)
How to Deal with a Big Age Difference in a Relationship
A big age difference in a relationship isn’t a new phenomenon, but somehow it remains harshly judged. Bystanders quickly form an opinion on the relationship of an older man or an older woman with a young partner. An older woman seen out with a younger man must be a nymphomaniac, a younger woman with an older man is suspected of being a gold digger. The older man is looking to recoup his lost youth with a younger woman, while a younger man wants to brag about sleeping with an older woman. Pop psychology at its best. If you’re lucky, your friends will support you, but if there is a considerable age difference between you and your partner, be prepared for disapproval to some degree.
There are three ways to deal with a big age difference in a relationship: Read more
Environmentally Friendly Weddings: 12 Tips for a Green Wedding
Environmentally friendly blog treehugger writes about all aspects of green living. This post about non-green weddings got us thinking: What would an environmentally friendly wedding look like?
These are the top tips for a green wedding:
- An environmentally friendly wedding begins with environmentally friendly wedding invites: Print your invitations on recycled paper or, even better, hand-write them. Don’t worry; recycled paper needn’t look horrible – these days it comes in any design or colour you could ask for.
- Bonus green points for handing the invitations to friends personally. That doesn’t just save you postage, but also the carbon caused by mail.
- When looking for the perfect wedding location, remember: a green wedding means minimum travel for a maximum of your guests. Read more
A Woman’s Life in Romantic Comedies
Romantic Comedies - we’ve established that they don’t mirror reality, we know they’re formulaic and unrealistic, but it really takes a sarcastic rundown of a woman’s life as seen through romantic comedies to realise: Watch romantic comedies, laugh and cry at them all you like, but – pretty please – do NOT base your plans, ambitions and dreams as a woman on romantic comedies or your life will be a bad romantic comedy joke!
See for yourself what a woman’s life in romantic comedies would look like….
