Melissa

Melissa writes on culture for Two Little Fleas. Her work is located in the Hub section.

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Start Planning Your Halloween Costume Now

Whether you’re a die-hard Halloween fan or someone who has to pull together a costume for a fancy dress party, you should start planning your Halloween costume now, if there’s any chance of you wearing one. After all, you don’t want to be caught unawares, forced to wear whatever you can cobble together from your… Read more »

Singing in a Choir Has Some Fantastic Side Effects

Imagine something that can ease the symptoms of depression, might be able to regulate heartbeats can may even be able to help sufferers of Parkinson’s disease regain control over their vocal chords. These results have not been linked to some miracle pill or a difficult exercise: they have been linked to singing in a choir…. Read more »

15 Lucky Shots You Won’t Believe

Action photography is all about timing: you can frame up the shot as much as you like, but if you don’t get the shot exactly right, the subject will be blurry, out of frame or awkwardly caught in between movements. You can increase shutter speeds, hit the button over and over and do everything in… Read more »

If You Like The Hunger Games, You’ll Love…

The Hunger Games trilogy has taken the world by storm. It made a household name of Jennifer Lawrence, and it has become one of the best-selling trilogies ever and has made author Suzanne Collins the best-selling Kindle ebook author of all time. Chances are, you read the books (or saw the films) and you loved… Read more »

15 Surprisingly Cute Animals

The internet just loves cute animals. Pictures, gifs and videos of kittens, puppies, meerkats and other adorable animals are everywhere online. But these days, we want more from our cute animals. We aren’t satisfied to just see the animals we expect to be cute. We want to see animals we didn’t realise were cute. That’s… Read more »

10 Tips to Help You Speed Up Cooking Times

Cooking can take a long time, and it can be such a pain after a long day. That is probably why so many of us rely on takeaways and ready meals, even though we know they’re not that great for us. Being able to speed up cooking times can seem like a pipe dream. After… Read more »

Outsider Art: The hot art trend we can all afford

Over the summer, the Hayward Gallery in London featured an exhibition called An Alternative Guide to the Universe. That exhibition showcased what is called “outsider art”, and it took the capital by storm. But what is outsider art? What does it mean, and why is it the one form of art that is accessible to… Read more »

The Autumn 2013 Fashion Trends You’ll Love

As many of us know, September is the biggest month in fashion. Fashion magazines are bringing out their biggest issues, and designers have brought out their big cold-weather collections. So we thought we’d look at the fashion write-ups and wrap up the major autumn 2013 fashion trends.  Then we found high street equivalents that you… Read more »

10 Money Saving Apps that Will Actually Save You Money

These days, it’s easier than ever to find coupons online, download budgeting apps and have thousands of offers sent directly to your inbox. So often, though, these apps, offers and emails just go straight into the bin when we realise that they don’t actually save us that much. The life of someone on a budget… Read more »