Remember when you could lay on your back and look up at the summer sky, seeing the ever changing parade of visions as the clouds drifted into one another? For some people, their imagination is a childhood thing, gone as adulthood takes hold while for others, the fanciful side of them never fully disappears. For [...]

Buying costumes, whether it is for Halloween, Christmas or a fancy dress costume party can be a real pain. There are crowds to deal with, the disappointment in learning that the one costume you want more than anything else is not available in your size. You have to rush through traffic and horrific weather to [...]

Once upon a time, fifty was the last decade that a person could reasonably expect to live to. People looked at those in their sixties with suspicion, seventies with abject terror and eighty year olds were burned for being witches. But, thanks to better health, science and medicine, as well as all the preservatives we [...]

Ah, twenty one years old! Welcome to the magical world of adulthood! (Okay, so no one is actually going to try to sell you that line!) It is a time that people wait for and celebrate as a milestone. Sadly, it is also going to be one of the last milestone birthdays you have for [...]

Contrary to the belief of your astonished guests, a fancy dress party does not just appear set up and ready to go, as if magically blown there by the party fairies. It takes some planning and some time management skills to bring the whole thing together correctly. But if you play it smart and your [...]