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All You Need To Know About Pebble Festive

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Have you heard of Pebble Festive? I hadn’t until recently and now I am buzzing about it! Run by pebble mag, the second Pebblefest is coming to London on 30th November which just so happens to be Sustainable Saturday–the perfect antidote to Black Friday which takes place the day before. The first-ever Pebblefest took place in April this year and is making its comeback as ‘Pebble Festive’ just in time for the Christmas celebrations to start! The perfect place to find all of your sustainable Christmas gifts and open your eyes to the ever-growing world of eco-friendly brands.

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After becoming a parent, understandably your focus shifts from yourself to your new-born baby. Children need a lot of care, love, and attention, especially when they are small. It’s very easy for us to become wrapped up in looking after our children and forget about looking after ourselves. It’s important to remember to take time for yourself. Being constantly with a young child can be tiring, combine that with constant interruptions, lack of sleep and your body recovering from pregnancy and birth, it’s no surprise that lots of parents end up burning out. Everyone needs and deserves a break and there’s no shame in that.

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With Christmas just around the corner, you may already be thinking about those presents, the decorations, how much food you will need to buy and which family will be hosting. It’s a big day and it can take a lot of planning BUT is it too big? Has Christmas got out of hand? Do we need to start reining it all in? Do we need to consider our waste and consumption now that we are very aware of the overuse of plastic and climate change? Looking at current figures I’d say so! It has been reported that in the UK alone we create 30% more waste than usual during the festive period, which includes two million turkeys and six million Christmas trees plus 1 billion Christmas cards!!

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