0 There is one thing I love about the days getting shorter, and it’s pretty much the excuse to put my PJs on early and head to bed for a bit of Netflix with the…
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All the Pumpkins
0 What pumpkins to look for your home displays and where you can go pumpkin picking around London. As Fall it’s coming closer to a start, and colors of the trees around us are turning…
It’s a chocolate world
0 I am very happy to present you with our first guest on The Grumpy Olive, the lovely Harmony from Cocoa Runners, to talk a bit about her obsession with chocolate. I met Harmony years…
Sleep: My Secret Weapon
0 Have I ever mentioned my love for sleep? I think of sleep as the most underrated cure to every single thing going wrong in my life. Headache? Go for a nap. Feeling sad? Take…
Zero Waste Week – Five Easy Swaps
0 Zero waste week is just around the corner! First of all, a disclaimer, I am in no way an expert on sustainability and still buy the over-packaged greens at the supermarket, but I wanted…
Redundancy at the time of COVID
0 Redundancy seems to be what everyone has found themselves thrown into, and I am most definitely part of the club. You might have been wondering what happened to me and why, all of a…
The re-launch, a tale of past, present, and future
0 If you have been here before, welcome to the re-launch of The Grumpy Olive. If not, well…you did not miss out much, until now. I am your editor-in-chief, Simona. I am the boss(y) around…
Black Out Tuesday – We Listen
0 Today is Black out Tuesday. I understand that I will never understand. However, I stand. @thejulietsimms on Instagram Stop, listen and educate yourself. How to help: Official George Floyd Memorial Fund – here. Minnesota…
On the first week of Isolation…
0 Today marks my official first week of isolation, or quarantine, whatever you might prefer to call it. I have left the house twice since, both times for food. The last time was on Saturday…
The new normal, first few days in isolation
0 I have been hesitating to put down whatever is currently going on with the world, whether that’s because I don’t want to say the wrong thing or come across as something I am not,…
