Close your eyes and sleep like a baby – after a day full of exciting moments with your body and mind in balance – well, for some, this could sound like a great piece of art!

You might have heard that a good sleep is not only about the time spent in bed. You can now buy a luxurious duvet set with the lightest siberian goose down and if you  follow the basic rules of the healthy and balanced life style, your good night’s sleep may be a few winks away!

So what could ensure that you always sleep well, fully enjoying every moment
of your night’s rest, even in a hot summer?

And go on … keep it up in the winter as well, your body might just thank you,
with less fatigue, aches and pains and you might even enjoy many more years of
retirement!

#1 Keep active during the day

It’s simple: sweat in the gym so you can sleep blissfully in bed. Every day
spend at least 30 mins doing any physical activity you like: cycling, walking,
jogging, gardening or dancing – you name it. Moreover, sports help you get into
really good mood and you will soon start feeling fit.

What it also means is that when you do fall asleep, then your sleep is so
much more deep, meaning you wake up with even more energy.

#2 Calm down in the evening

Your mind and your body need a rest other than just pure sleep. After a busy
day, you should settle down and chill out – even on a balmy summer’s evening!

Put on some soothing music, pick up a good book or just a take a walk in the
park and look at nature – you could be amazed at what you see, hear and smell!

#3 Create a welcoming environment

When your bedroom just exudes a feeling of relaxation, it is almost
impossible not to feel calm yourself – furniture and lighting can be in perfect
harmony, making the bedroom quiet and dark, creating an environment where you
can easily fall asleep. You can even use a suitable scent to wind down.

If you really want to go the whole hog, you might pop down to the local
bookshop and pick up something on Feng Shui!

#4 Enjoy eating and drinking

Although it’s vital to drink lots of liquids during summer months, limit
intake of foods that contain a lot of water such as watermelon, and beer late
at night – well maybe just occasionally we can all have a few too many! While
you should eat light meals in the evening, don’t make the mistake of going to
bed hungry by skipping dinner completely.

#5 Choose the right bedding

As you see yourself snuggling under a luxury goose
down duvet and you rest your head on a Siberian
goose down pillow with the most sensuous feather bed mattress topper underneath you, all your
cares will drift away and the silent bliss will leave you waking up feeling
relaxed that you made the right decision to get now
the right bedding for summer.

Plus, you might be interested to hear our suggestion that you go for 4.5 tog as this is specially designed for warm
summer nights. However, there is also an option of “All Seasons” duvets which are
in fact two duvets in one - a 4.5 tog duvet and a 9 tog duvet that can be
joined for the winter to make a 13.5 tog duvet, separated for the summer when
you can use the 4.5 tog duvet, and simply use the 9 tog duvet for spring/autumn.

Conclusion

When you start following these tips,
you will feel really relaxed and alert every day, earning comments from your
friends and you might remember deciding to follow
these tips right now so that your bed really is your new haven!

The Power of Napping

You might have heard that in our culture napping
is generally seen as a lazy activity; however many people feel natural drowsiness
in the afternoon - even those who sleep long enough at night. Picture the fact that
you can become more alert, reduce stress and improve your productivity with a short
nap. Mid-day sleep means more great patience, less nervousness and better
health. Now you might start indulging in the perfect sleep as you decide now to
follow these tips for sleeping well.

How Much Sleep Do You Need?

Our body needs 7-8 hours of sleep every day; Imagine
that 6 hours or less triples your risk of a car accident. So be aware of the
danger and try to sleep enough, snuggling under a top quality Siberian goose
down duvet..

Consequences of the lack of sleep

Sleep is
cumulative; if you lose sleep one day, you will feel it the next. If you keep missing
adequate sleep for several days, you will start to endanger your health and
decrease your performance in these specific areas:

1. Reaction
   time
2. Judgment
   
3. Vision
   
4. Information
   processing
5. Short-term
   memory
6. Performance
7. Motivation
   
8. Vigilance
   
9. Patience

Benefits of a power nap

How
would it sound to you that it’s much better to nap 20 minutes in the afternoon
than in the morning? Our body seems to be designed for this, as most people
naturally become more tired in the afternoon, about 8 hours after they wake up.

So how long should we sleep?

The sleep cycle is made of different stages which you pass through when
you sleep. These stages include light sleep, deep sleep, and rapid eye movement
sleep.

Many experts indicate that a nap of between 15 and 30
minutes is enough, as sleeping longer brings you into deeper stages of sleep,
from which it’s more difficult to wake up. Also, longer naps can make it more
difficult to fall asleep at night. However, research has shown that a one-hour
nap has much more restorative effects than a 30-minute nap, including much
greater improvement in cognitive functioning.

Tips for a more effective nap

If you want to get more sleep, and the health benefits that go with it,
look at these tips for more effective napping and sleep at night:

• Avoid caffeine after 3pm. It’s a stimulant
  that can disrupt your sleep.
• If you don’t want to nap for a long time,
  set an alarm.
• If you don’t have time for a power nap, or
  don’t feel comfortable napping during the day, try meditation; it gives your
  body a rest and produces slower brain waves similar to sleep.

Only you know how you are going to savour your marvellous sleep this
night. When you close your eyes, and dive deeper into your soft and naturally
cool down duvet, you will thank yourself for following this advice.

We are more than happy to give
you even more advice and tips so that you can enjoy your sleep as much as
possible in our great Siberian goose down duvets -  just remember to contact us now!

Yes, it really is a simple as it sounds, it is easier to sleep better with a clear conscience.

With Global Warming very much in the news and people getting more and more concerned about their Carbon Footprints, we at www.DuvetsNBedding.co.uk have decided to do our best to put your mind at ease.

In February 2008 we purchased over 800 trees and proceeded to plant them on property owned by one of our directors, with a promise from him that the trees would be personally cared for by him, and, so long as he was involved with the company (so long as he was alive!!), never cut down!

SO, what’s the big deal? Trees, as we all know breath in the Carbon Dioxide, we, and our industries breath out. They therefore remove carbon from our atmosphere replacing it with oxygen.

Without getting into it too much, trees are a great way of neutralising your carbon footprint and add to the biodiversity of an area.

In the production of our Duvets, be they Siberian Goose Down Duvets, Goose Down Duvets, Microfibre Duvets or otherwise, no matter what we do, transportation and manufacture is necessary! Therefore in order to negate the carbon emissions caused by our trucks, deliveries etc, we planted our forest!

By no means are we claiming that we’ve reversed the Greenhouse Effect, but we have taken a step in the right direction.

Of course, online shopping is in itself an eco friendly way of going about your business. Think about it, as you sit at home doing your purchasing from the comfort of your home, your car is most likely staying in its driveway. The result? Less carbon emissions!! Less traffic on the roads, less traffic jams, less pollution, cleaner air, AND, a clearer conscience!

Not alone are we at www.duvetsnbedding.co.uk helping keep your conscience clear by encouraging online duvet and bedding shopping with us, but we’ve got over 800 little workers helping out every day of the year too. And as time goes by, those “Little” Alder, Ash, Oak, Beech, Birch, Rowan and Larch helpers, (native to the area where they are planted to ensure success) Won’t be so little!

Sleep better, with a clearer conscience, with a Duvet or Pillow from www.duvetsnbedding.co.uk!

We all love rhyme don’t we? So, here’s a little Limerick I wrote called

“Tog Blog!”
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I set out one evening to blog
About duvets, their size, and their tog!
Duvets N Bedding you see, just stock great quality,
And such duvets are easy to flog!

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And indeed they are easy to flog but lets face it, no matter what the quality, the wrong duvet for the wrong season is just wrong! There’s nothing luxurious about freezing in bed in deepest winter, no matter how expensive or well made your duvet is. We therefore need to pay good attention to the tog rating of each duvet we purchase.

But, the good news is, it’s not rocket science. Duvets come in all varieties of Tog ratings and can be manufactured to specific requirements. Generally though, the most popular tog values would be 4.5 Tog, 6 Tog, 10.5 Tog and 13.5 Tog.

The higher the tog rating, the warmer the duvet. So, depending on where you live you should purchase accordingly.

Based on our collective experience, which totals many decades in the industry, we at Duvets N’Bedding stock four options, 4.5 tog , 10.5 tog 13.5 tog and “All Seasons” duvets.

As we don’t stock every possible variety of tog rating, we can purchase these duvets in bulk and pass on greater savings to our customers….you guys!

We like to cater for the needs of our customers, the majority of whom reside in the UK and Ireland and so we can break down the tog ratings to suit the seasons.

4.5 tog: ideal for those warm/hot summer nights.

10.5 tog: a good choice for Spring and Autumn or even Winter. Lets face it, there’s not a huge difference between the seasons of the British Climate.

13.5 tog: Great for those cold winter nights.

“All Seasons” these duvets are in fact two duvets in one. A 4.5 tog duvet and a 9 tog duvet that can be joined for the winter to make a 13.5 tog duvet, separated for the summer when you can use the 4.5 tog duvet , and simply use the 9 tog duvet for Spring/Autumn.

I guess you could call the “All Seasons Duvet” the “Jack of All Trades” type duvet.

See, I told you…..simple!

Limerick number 2

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It’s Winter! new duvet! What tog?
My memory I’ll have to jog!
I could buy a book, and take a quick look.
Or just check the Duvets N’Bedding Blog!

If you are anything like me when I started out, you might be thinking a duvet is a duvet, how different can they be? Little did I know!!

Because of this, I’ve decided that my first entry to this Duvets N’Bedding Blog is going to address the issue of explaining in nice and simple terms, a little about Duvets.

We all know that a goose is a bird, so what is Goose Down and more importantly, what is a Goose Down Duvet?

Quite simply, the small feathers on the breast of the Goose are known as the “Down“. These are the softest feathers on the bird and also the warmest. In fact their main purpose is to keep the bird well insulated and warm. Wing feathers are more important for flight.

A Goose Down Duvet is a duvet filled with Goose Down, simple as that!

What then is a Siberian Goose Down Duvet?

It is exactly as it suggests, a Siberian Goose Down Duvet is a duvet that is filled with the Down of a Siberian Goose. (Siberian Geese are their own specific breed of geese and not just Geese that live in Siberia)
“And what’s so special about the Siberian Goose?” I hear you say. I’ll explain it to you the way it was explained to me many years ago.

Think about Climate for a minute, especially the Climate in Siberia. It’s one of the harshest in the world!

So for a Goose to survive that cold it needs to be very well insulated indeed. Remember, a bird needs to fly and in order to do that weight needs to be kept to a minimum. Therefore, the Siberian Goose has evolved with feathers and down that is exceptionally warm and light, hence the expression “Warmth Without Weight!”

A Siberian Goose Down Duvet is thus a Duvet that is light and warm, and, when encased in top quality Egyptian Cotton, like the Duvets here at www.duvetsnbedding.co.uk the result is a Duvet of Total Luxury, the Crème De La Crème of Duvets.

We stock Siberian Goose Down Duvets of all sizes from single to Super King Size, and ranging in tog values from 4.5 to 13.5 including an All Seasons option

Why not visit us now?