Whilst on a recent weekend away, we had just arrived in our holiday home after a five hour delayed flight and running off 1 ½hours sleep. One of my fellow travellers had been repeatedly grumbling about how desperate he was for a coffee – however, when I brandished an ancient looking jar of instant coffee under his nose, he looked at me like I had just offered him my sweat-ridden hiking socks in a cup of boiling water. The point I am trying to make here is that just because all coffee has the word “coffee” on the label, doesn’t mean it all tastes the same.

I live with a person that I affectionately call a collector but is, in reality, a hoarder in training. It all started as a child with Kinder Egg toys and has progressed as an adult into vinyl records and creepy ‘vintage’ toys and curios. As you can imagine, his eyes lit up when he saw the Bell Jar Light, as his head flooded with items he could display in it.

The Tethera boot has a beautiful, classic look about it, in a rugged brown leather. It is classified as a 3-Season hill walking boot, suitable for the Lakeland Fells and the Scottish Hills.

We all know that sitting around in front of the TV at home isn’t good for you, but have you ever considered how much time you spend sitting whilst you’re at work? The VARIChair has been specially designed to engage your legs, back and core muscles whilst you are at the desk or work station, and encourages you to move more throughout your day.

The Thinkware F770 is a front & rear dash cam that records in full HD, featuring Super Night Vision, Time Lapse, Road Safety Warning Systems and Safety Camera Alert. With 1080p Full HD & Full HD 2CH, 30fps and Advanced Video Clear Technology, the F770 produces a clear high-quality image. The night vision uses Image Signal Processing technology and real-time image processing to produce an image ten times brighter than earlier models, which means you will still get clear details even in carparks and roads without streetlight.

This compact little shoulder bag is available in two colours - either charcoal or a very attractive indigo blue (which we received). Don’t let the small size of the Turnstyle 10 V2.0 deceive you - it can easily hold a standard DSLR or larger mirrorless system (Sony A7, Panasonic GH4), an 8” tablet, 24-70mm f/2.8 or f/4 attached and additional lenses. The internal dimensions are 7.1” W x 12.6” H x 4.8” D (18 x 32 x 12.2 cm) with exterior dimensions of 8.3” W x 15.4” H x 5.2” D (21 x 39 x 13.2 cm).

The Leica DISTO D810 Touch is a 15-measurement-mode laser distance meter, accurate to 1mm, and is chock full of useful features to let you get on with the job. For starters, it has a touch screen UI, integrated digital camera, a tilt sensor and is Bluetooth Smart. The D810's exclusive Measure In Picture (MIP) technology can deliver you with the height, width, area, diameter, or circumference of an object in a picture taken.

It’s that time of year again - BBQ season is fully upon us. Why would you bother cooking your sausages under the grill when you can take four hours to burn them to cinders on an BBQ whilst chocking on plumes of smoke and trying to keep the wasps out of your beer? Like most summer activities, the idea of a BBQ is often much better in theory than in practice, but that doesn’t stop us from having one every summer.

I can look back and laugh now about how ridiculous my partner and I were the first time our cat didn’t come home when called. We have two boys who have always been reliable at coming home when we whistle, but on the day that is now known as No Finley Friday I remember me, my partner and the other cat running up and down the road trying to locate the fourth member of our little family. Four hours later, of course, he strolled in like nothing had happened, much to our frustration and relief.

These glasses are what the seven-year-old me dreamt that everyone in the future would be wearing (I’m still waiting for hologram messaging, but we are getting there). The SunnyCam Xtreme Edition  are water resistant 1080p POV recording glasses, charged via micro USB. These glasses are easy to use: turn them on by holding down the power button, and a vibration indicator and red light flashing on the inside of the frame will let you know that it’s active.