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Bought myself a solo ticket this evening - who wants to keep my company? ;)

The UK's Eurovision entry will be getting announced on Monday.

Street legal Batmobile goes on sale for £1m.

Dundee road renamed Bash Street in Beano tribute.

Dinner with the Smiths is a new Glasgow food blog I found this week

Piece is a west end cafe I took my first bite in this week and highly recommend.

I'm really not sorry for Instagramming my food though: 16 ways foodies drive you crazy

This is one of my best personal pieces I've reead in ages: I'm fat, forty and have no trouble getting laid all the time.

A beautiful mini-guide to house plants.

How to photograph in low light

5 creative ways to wear green on St Paddy's Day.

5 ways to fail gracefully

Hilariously (and thankfully) outdated advice from a 1967's Seventeen magazine.

I'd never have it in me to review a sex toy on my blog - but I'm glad other people do (NSFW)

Stylish ladies posing with vegan food. Lookbook cook is my kind of thing.

Zoe, previously of The London Lipgloss, rebranded as ZOE LDN this week and I am loving the new direction for her.

Morag x

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Lunch at Rufus T Firefly

A few weekends ago I had several non-Glasgow friends in town (for a weekend of speed dating, Limp Bizkit and a trip to a smaller indie bar - for some reason - we all wanted to try). Whilst sauntering about town after they all got their corresponding transport into G-town, we all felt peckish (or hungover, which was actually the truth for me) and it was my pal Alan who suggested Rufus T Firefly. (Alan has lived in Dundee all his life, but can recommend more places to scoff your face in Glasgow than I can).

Rufus T Firefly is American themed with that rock music vibe (read: not a classy tea room you'd take your grandmother to). I love the vibe of American themed places but unfortunately their menu's are usually an ode to burgers and hot dogs with not much veggie stuff, however there were quite a few options for me and my veggie pal (wasn't the odd one out this time haha).

I settled on the veggie fajitas:

And my pal Alan had their 'inferno burger':

I obviously didn't ask to have a bite...

...but here's what Alan himself had to say on his meat-feast:

"A decent sized spicy burger with plenty on the side. Not hot enough for a chilli fan but good for a pub."

(FYI, Alan collects bottles of random brands of chilli sauces...his idea of 'mild' would land some of us in hospital).

Morag x

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beauty skincare

Greenland Pure & White Vitalizing body lotion

Greenland body lotion Vitalizing Italian lime & vanilia *

Greenland was not a brand I had previously heard of (it's actually a Dutch brand) until I was kindly sent some of their products over by the PR firm they are working with. And as body lotion is an essential in most humans beauty cabinets (even those not all that into pampering) I decided to weigh in with my thoughts on this. If you've already watched my February favourites video you'll know that I've rated this highly but I just wanted to pop by and give a more in depth review of this body lotion.

I mentioned in my video that this is a good everyday moisturiser for normal skin on areas in the body with minimal dryness. I've been using this since I got it on my legs and arms (torso too if I'm feeling particularly awake that morning) but for my feet I've been switching to creams of the thicker variety.

The fragrance is quite zingy, as you might imagine. If you know me that you'll know that fragrance free is a big plus in my book so I was really put off when I first opened the bottle. However like a lot of lotions the fragrance doesn't linger on the skin and I don't have to go about my day smelling like a lime.

Greenland are a brand that pride themselves on being natural and organic. I'm not a natural beauty user but I know a lot of people who read my blog are so I thought I would share a few tuppence about it. As advertised there are no parabens in this product and when I checked the label I found nothing of the sort. However there were still a few ingredients that got my head tilting and my lips trying to move but not sure which way they were meant to in order to pronounce dicaprylyl carbonate and cetearyl alcohol. I had a Google for these ingredients and was met with chemistry symbols. Yeah.

But overall, I would say this is a body lotion that falls in the average spectrum of body lotion. I would like to try more from the Greenland range (but probably won't rush out to buy it right this second).

Morag x

* PR sample but my views are always the same.

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Single on v-day? How about speed dating at the Catty? #3dates3mths

Erm, sorry if you're that guy in this photo...

I'm a long term singleton who has clocked over three years on the dating market, so when JustSingles got in contact with me asking if I wanted to take part in their #3dates3mths campaign I was all 'why the hell not?' Admittedly being single isn't something that keeps me up on my spoonless nights ("better to be single than settle" is my motto) however it's been a *cough* while since I've even dated someone casually so I decided this was worth taking part in to get me 'back in the game' (I might edit that phrase later).

I know some people have seen the hashtag coyly popping up on Twitter and have been urging me to get my posts up, but the jist for anyone who is unsure is that I have to try three different ways to find a date over the course of three months. One of them using JustSingles dating site itself and the other two being of my own choosing.

I did originally decided that a 'shag tag' or 'traffic light party' would be a terrific way to meet a nice, respectable single guy, but Glasgow was looking low on these events over the valentines period so I chose speed dating - for little other reason than both The Cathouse and The Garage were running it on v-day.

And naturally I chose the Catty. I do love myself a bit of The Garage but I like my guys tattooed, a bit rougher, wearing vans and packaged up with that "I spend my youth skateboarding round the back of shopping centres" vibe.

Even if all my workmates were like: "Catty? Morag, really?"

The event itself...

You might recall that I have been speed-dating before (and another time after that if you include last year's Valentine's blogger meet-up), and whilst I realised the Cathouse wouldn't be of the same set-up (read: not held in my old student union where I knew most of the guys coming round) I was met with a very 'good time' speed dating, as in it wasn't really all that official. Instead of numbered tables the marketing manager came out of the DJ booth and handed out pieces of paper and just told us to mingle.

With only about 6 people of each sex taking part it didn't take long for the mingling to concede and we handed back our papers. I never received mine back and remain unaware if the guy who I marked 10/10 because we shared a great moment air guitaring to MeatLoaf (because after a few rums this is become a very important quality in a potential boyfriend) shared my fondess.

However, some of things I have learnt about speed dating, from both this event and my previous flirt with it:

Choose your venue carefully - I did realise 'Valentine's Day speed dating at the Cathouse' wouldn't be a serious affair but all the speed dating events hosted by actual dating companies are held in bars described as 'suited for the classy professional' which suggest that, yes, I would get a proper four minutes seated with each guy, but also that all the guys coming round would be respectable lawyers who played golf at the weekend (and I don't fancy them).

Don't bring your sister - One of the guys I spoke to had his sister in tow, and she even whispered to me 'be nice to him'! I don't have any siblings but I'd like to think I'd leave them at home if I did (like I did with all my real family members).

It's fun - Despite the likelihood that you probably won't meet your future spouse this way, speed dating is fun and I would encourage everyone to put it on their 'single person bucket list' (please tell me I'm not the only person who has one of those?).

And because this is primarily a fashion/beauty blog, here is what I wore: