It’s time to stock up again on all those baby essentials at Asda! Their Baby and Toddler Event is well and truly in the swing and from now until 10th february they are offering massive savings across the range! Not just on their own brand products but on many premium brand products from food, nappies and skin care to car seats, travel cots and toys! Bargains like Lindam Safety Gates which start at just £15 (I’m a big Lindam fan) and the Play […]

A while back Florence, Jimmy and I made a trip to the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon to see their production of  ‘Too Many Penguins’ which we absolutely loved (read my review here). The theatre, which is the other side of London for us, is dedicated to children’s live entertainment and playing and was an absolute find! We would make the trek over there any time for it is so wholeheartedly worth it! The show we saw was perfect for Florence’s age although Jimmy […]

Florence was born on New Year’s Eve which is fantastic for lots of reasons! One is that everyone is always in party mode but the down side is that everyone is in party mode for something else… At least everyone is happy and jovial but instead of saying happy birthday they say Happy New Year so really and truly she has to stretch her birthday out a bit! I always give her a couple of her presents in the summer […]

I am both a cleaning fan and hater all in one! While I hate the thought of having to clean the house and hate the actual process of doing it, I can’t bear dirt and mess and simply have to do a weekly deep clean or I feel funny! I don’t know why it is but I often go to other people’s houses and notice their dirt and I’d be mortified if anyone noticed it in my house so I […]

I have always had very inexpensive handsets for my land line phones. I’m not particularly technological and on the one occasion when I was given an old phone which was a little bit super from my Uncle, I ruined it within weeks by replacing the battery for a normal AA one and effectively killing it dead… I hadn’t realised you had to use the special AA rechargeable batteries that came with the phone… From then and coupled with the fact […]

Potato, Butterbean and Tomato Croquettes Ingredients 1 medium-sized potato Plain flour for dusting A teaspoon of butter A handful of frozen peas A tablespoon of tinned butterbeans (drained) A tablespoon of left over tomato sauce (bolognese, cassoulet, arrabbiata, whatever you have) Extra Virgin Olive Oil Method Peel and chop the potato and boil it with the peas until soft. In When cooked, add them to a bowl with the butterbeans, butter and tomato sauce until all combined. Mould into small […]

When Florence was born and sleep deprivation hit me for the first time I spent three weeks being up in the night every twenty minutes after she’d fallen asleep. The time in between when she was awake could last hours but I tried and tried to keep getting her to drift off by all methods possible. I would then gently lower her into the expensive and beautiful moses basket and slowly remove my hands until the last tip of the […]

Before I had children and was still a working gal I volunteered to take British Red Cross first aid training for in the work place. Why not I thought? Work was paying for it, it was time out of the office and it’s a skill. Really and truly, just as with giving blood, my main point of choosing to do it at that time was to break up the day, do something different and get out of sitting behind my desk for a few […]