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If we ever needed a year to recognise the state of the world’s mental health, 2021 could be the most important one this century. The pressure that the pandemic rained down on us was enormous, moving towards unbearable for many, and now the darkest days are meant to be over with life having an essence of normality, we're supposed to just slip back into our old ways, picking up where we left off. Yet this is the moment that many of us find ourselves at our lowest; with the adrenaline of ‘I simply must keep going’ having passed we've hit...

I don’t often get frantic text messages from Jo, so when my phone beeped with on a sunny August morning with a text that just said “CALL ME, I have something INCREDIBLE to tell you!!” I put down my bacon sandwich and took it pretty seriously...

First impressions count. It’s frequently argued how long we have to make that all important first impression with roughly seven seconds being a fair average. However, Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov, psychologists at USA's prestigious Princeton University, gave us a mere tenth of a second before we judge and are judged… a blink of an eye in fact. Scary stuff knowing that I’ve just been down to my local post office in a mismatched grey tracksuit, odd socks and sliders. Not a good look my friends, not a good look. However, pulling back up onto my driveway the first impression of...

Summer has well and truly arrived and here at Brown and Ginger HQ, we sense a pleasing whiff of passion in the air... and since ‘in-in’ is still the new ‘out-out’ we thought we'd lend a helping hand for those dreamy date night vibes. Yes, we are loving being able to head out for Friday night drinks and Saturday eve dinners, but why not make every night date night this summer? Whether it’s an evening spent with a loved one or simply some time to love yourself, make space in your diary (and your home) because we are here to...

... there’s a new guy in town... and he’s brought a friend.

The experts at Pantone have done it again. In fact, this year they‘ve done it twice...