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Tesco Orchard/Fresh Flowers Review - Sponsored Post

If you haven't heard of Tesco Orchard yet you're missing out. Tesco Orchard is a little coupon scheme with the aim to promote their products and improve their services. (Sign up here.) You get a coupon usually for £5, plus a couple for friends. This time my coupon was for Fresh Flowers.

With my £5 coupon I can go in store to purchase Fresh Flowers, by doing this I could get some for free as they have plenty under £5 and with no minimum spend it was a wonderful idea. I could pick any flowers I liked. Unfortunately I'm allergic to flowers so I didn't really want to go on a mission to my nearest Tesco and then have my throat swell shut. But I was in luck! The coupon is also valid for online purchases. The only catch being that with "Free Next Day Delivery" and a "Free Vase" they have nothing under £20. So instead of free flowers, I'm paying £15 for flowers.

Now I would like to say the website (here) itself is wonderfully informative, easy to use and I feel it personally can be used in so many different ways it doesn't matter if you know exactly what you want or have no clue where to start. You can chose by budget, type, occasion, colour, season or browse all.

My only really disappointment being that with £20 being the cheapest, they seem to be missing out on a budget option. While £20 isn't a bad price, you can get flowers online with free delivery and gifts for slightly less.

I would still recommend this service and in fact plan to use it again.

#TriedForLess

Catch up

Well I'm back, I've missed blogging. In fact I did try to blog elsewhere this last year. But it wasn't the same. This is my home. My blog. My outlet. Thing is for a while I didn't feel like I could post here, but I'm realising it's okay.


This isn't a family blog anymore. I wasn't ready to be a Mom, to be a wife. I was only 17 when I had my son. Only 20 when I got married. And quite frankly most of this blog was a lie.

I wasn't in some perfect, happy marriage. My son didn't live with us, he hasn't for most of his life but I felt so ashamed. I'm starting to see that I shouldn't be though. I held my hands up and admitted I couldn't do it. I made sure my son was in a stable, loving environment and I tried to be a mother to him. I stepped away from my marriage, re-evaluated and realised we weren't happy and we weren't in love. It was still painful, but I needed to leave while we were in agreement. I didn't want to be one of those couples who blames each other, hurts each other and needs to be the winner or the victim. We entered into our marriage as a team, we will exit as one.

I don't know what he's up to, who he's dating or even if he's dating. I could go and google and honestly a couple of times I've started to, but I stop myself. I remind myself that he isn't mine and he deserves to be happy as do I.

So now I'm starting to date. I'm studying. Spending time with friends. Reconnecting with family. I've just moved into a lovely house which I'm redecorating and I'm getting back to money saving and being creative.

I'm sorry for vanishing, I'm sorry for not giving any indication to what was happening. But I'm not sorry for taking some much needed time to work on myself and be okay.