This Week The Mice Have Mostly Been...

Another week down, and boy are we ready for it to be over...but we made it and it's the weekend so, we couldn't feel better!! The last seven days have zipped by packed full of delicious dinners (Rita's review to come next week), G&Ts, hangovers, minimal sleep and as little work as possible! Here's to two blissful days of freedom pretty much filled with the same again but trading the work for blogging!

If you need me, you'll find me right about here...

So when we haven't been day dreaming about dreaming in bed (yes it does make sense!), this week the Mice have mostly been...

Failing to Recover from one almighty hen weekend and believe me it has taken ALL week!!

I posted about one of my good friends last year who I thought needed a bit of 3BM love. Well she's not only back in business but about to get married in a mere matter of weeks!!

So off we trundled, all packed up and raring to go to give her single life the almighty send off it deserved!

The plan was a booze-fuelled weekend full of hangovers, bike rides, lots of laughter and a huge side of silliness with, of course, a light sprinkling of naked men!!

And....that we got in an abundance!!!!

Our base for the weekend was the land of the dragon, the one and only Cardiff! After a four and a half hour drive, we eventually arrived to the madness...and the party did not stop from there on in - we're talking 9am Bloody Marys, cocktails, cocktails and a few more cocktails and a set of Bristolian Butlers in just an apron and quite randomly trainers (?!) who had reams of party game up their...aprons... Plus, how could we forget a surprise stripper who we all initially suspected was a burglar but just went with it!!

And as for the rest - well, what happens on Winny's Welsh weekend stays...on the blog to haunt everyone for a lifetime Hahahaha!!!! Enjoy....

All in all, one hell of a weekend crammed full of amazing memories with a group of fabulous girls. Roll on the wedding...I literally cannot wait!!

Puckering up at every opportunity to apply my new Urban Decay Naked Lip Gloss which I'm officially a little bit in love with!

Now, finding the perfect lip gloss is no mean feat! I'm sure the majority of us were all victims to the 90's Juicy Tube craze...thick, sickly sweet, neon pink gloss that was so sticky it practically glued your mouth shut! Absolute social suicide if you didn't have one of these bad boys to hand...however I'm pleased to say our tastes have matured somewhat over the last decade! 

So when I laid my hands on Urban Decay's new Naked Glosses I couldn't be happier! Sleek chic packaging (ensuring that it looks right at home in your Celine, Givenchy, Sophie Hulme, Prada the list is endless), a killer colour palette and an all round winner when it comes to the essential lipgloss checklist. Long lasting - tick, not too thick or sticky - tick, no glitter in sight - tick and super nourishing - tick!

For me it really does tick all those boxes and what's more it's packed full of vitamins, oils and filling spheres (not going to get all science on you, but let's just say, that apparently 86% of users in trials found noticeable improvements in wrinkles and fine lines)! Finally, a gloss that makes you look younger whilst gifting you with the most kissable lips...perfection!!

If I haven't sold it enough already try it out, you can buy it online here for just £14! 

From now on I'm totally a Naked girl...only when it comes to makeup brands of course!! 

We haven't left you with a Friday song for a way too long, so we thought let's kick this weekend off with some crazy but loveable Pamola Faith...

Have a fabulous one 

The Mice x 

I'm Glamping in the rain....

Wedding time is fast approaching within my friendship circle - everyone is beginning to head off on breaks away and returning looking gloriously happy with diamonds twinkling on their left ring finger! I'm not even vaguely at that stage and I'm generally fine about it but what does worry me is that I'm not at all grown up in any sense of the word! I still go out every weekend with the girls, have no interest in quiet nights in or family get togethers (unless it's a night with my sisters fuelled by cocktails and cava) and planning and saving for a big day of celebrations in a white dress would totally kill me! 


So I think it's safe to say that I give all my engaged girls a hug, congratulate them and get super duper excited (as it is so nice to see your besties ridiculously happy), but secretly know I am still a massive baby who is totally selfish and would rather spend my money on a brand new Mulberry Harriet Satchel! 


Having said that, I'm very much enjoying all the hens...!


I have just returned from a hen weekend for very good friends of mine, Charlie who is marrying the very lovely Chris. Now they're not your standard couple, they are totally in love and deliriously happy but they aren't going to jump into a grown-up house, with a garden and start having babies straight away! Charlie still comes out on all the girls' nights out, gets blind drunk and can always be convinced to do the worm down the bar (even when she's wearing a teeny tiny dress)! Meanwhile Chris goes out with the boys and returns home to Charlie with only one of his favourite winkle picker boots on claiming he lost the other at the gig he was at...how?!?  They truly are the most fun couple in the world with the BEST stories...Sheryl Crow ring any bells Charlie...I just can't wait for the wedding and especially the best man's speech!!!


So, back to the hen.  Charlie's sister was given the job of organising the hen and I was asked to help out as she wanted to plan a weekend away and I've recently planned quite a few New Year Getaways as previously blogged! We thought long and hard about what to do with 18 girls and tried to think of what the bride would really enjoy...a villa abroad was in the mix, a big stately house came up, as did a cute country cottage...but we eventually agreed on.....Glamping!!!  


So we set off to Wild Luxury Pigeon Wood in Norfolk - top tip...DO NOT rely on your sat nav as it takes you to a crossroads in a country village and apparently that is your destination...75 minutes later we found our real destination in the pitch black!! Anyway, navigational issues dealt with we arrived and checked out our home for the weekend.  You can either rent out a single lodge (from £225 for 2 nights or from £559 for 7 nights) or like us, for a bigger group, you can hire out the total location, 5 luxury lodges set in a 2000 acre estate.

Image via www.wildluxury.co.uk

If, like me, the word camping scares you senseless then please don't be put off, Pigeon Wood definitely falls more heavily on the glamorous side of glamping with comfort at the forefront of every element of design. The lodges sleep 6 people - 1 king bed, 1 double cabin bed (so cute and lots of fun) and a bunk bed and are surprisingly spacious. For a small fee you can have all your linen and thick duvets provided - nice luxury satin striped white bed linen at that!  


Each lodge has a small Aga for cooking and heat and wood, fire lighters and matches are all provided. It's probably a good point to mention that the site has no electricity... but you'll be surprised how refreshing and fun a weekend of candlelit lanterns, oil lamps and Agas can be! Just make sure that you charge your phone before you arrive and bring laptops and speakers for music! 

Image via www.wildluxury.co.uk

Back to the lodges...electricity aside, each one has all your essential home comforts: a flushing toilet; a boiling hot shower; a big cool box packed with ice to stash all your food and drink in; all necessary utensils, crockery, pantry basics; and of course your all important hot water bottles! 


We spent two evenings and a day drinking, eating, playing inappropriate games, BBQ'ing in the rain on our fire pits (!), and generally being very drunk and having lots of fun! It was a bit on the cold side but I think that may have been down to the fact that we spent the whole weekend in the communal lodge (we only needed 4 of the 5 lodges so used one as a communal area for cooking, eating and games which worked fantastically for us as people could head off to bed and leave mess with no complaints!) and totally forgot to tend to our Agas which meant that our sleeping lodges never fully heated up...

Image via www.wildluxury.co.uk

I can't leave out our Saturday daytime activity, it is definitely one that most us won't forget in a hurry, if ever!!! We packed ourselves off a little worse for wear, most of us in not a scrap of make-up and very unattractive outfits, to the near-by Extreeme Adventure! As Charlie has always been a competitive one who is very sporty, what better way to entertain her?! I'm not a complete wimp but it's safe to say that I have never been so petrified in my life!! I decided not to bring my gym trainers as I didn't want to get them muddy and instead brought my old grey plimsoll trainers with NO grip...a decision I very soon regretted when I saw the 40 foot high cables that I had to balance on! We were all harnessed up and then embarked on a two and half hour course of zip lines, swinging logs, suspended tight-ropes, nets and rickety tubes to climb through, all with 20-40 foot drops below them! We pretty much all completed it somehow and ended up on a swing contraption which was the scariest yet funnest of them all, see video evidence here a few laughs....


A really fun weekend was had by all and definitely one to visit again - big group or not! If high ropes and zip lines aren't quite your thing, there are also tonnes of pubs in the area, perfect for long country walks and cosy drinks to fill your days and evenings! My advice would be to pack wellingtons and a waterproof jacket instead off the Uggs and a fur trimmed parka that I packed - two days of rain and gale force winds and I cared much less about looking good and much more about staying warm and dry!


Now onto the next hen...ideas welcome...!