I told you that as an official blogger for Lollibop I’d be able to bring you all the breaking news and something’s just come in which looks AWESOME! A common misconception is that the Lollibop Festival is just for the tiny tots but I can absolutely assure you there’s something for everyone and this year there’s more than there’s ever been before for the older ones! One of my friend’s children is eleven and she thought he wouldn’t want to go again […]

Last year we went as a family to The Foodies Festival when it was held at Battersea Park. We had an absolutely brilliant day and I was very keen to go along again this year. They hold lots of festivals across the country in the summer and have three in London this year; there was one at Hampton Court palace a few weeks ago, the one this weekend at Clapham Common and a new addition has just been announced for […]

Last week I wrote about how much we enjoy Little Dish meals and we reviewed their new pasta sauce and filled pasta which went down very well in my house! I noticed on the packaging that they have tickets for children to gain FREE entry to LegoLand! We’ve been trying to go to LegoLand for some time now. We went when Florence was tiny but she’s a bit older now and would enjoy it more. This summer it looks fab […]

Can’t wait! I’ve looked at the myhavenholiday.com website and we only have 13 sleeps to go until our holiday! It seemed like a long time to wait back when we were deciding which park to stay at but suddenly there’s less than a fortnight to go! Florence has been looking at the site which when you add your booking details, brings up a bespoke page just for you! As well as giving you the countdown to your holiday there’s a […]

On Friday we went to In The Night Garden Live! It’s the third time we’ve been actually so I knew just what to expect! Florence was a big fan of the show from very early on and we took her at the end of July 2011 when she was just a year and a half old. Looking back at the date and it must have quite literally been a week before I got pregnant with Jimmy! That was Florence’s first […]

It’s well documented on my blog that I’m not really a re-usable nappy person. I can’t stand the smell of them in the bucket, the thought of carrying around poo in my handbag and quite frankly the faff of the washing and getting the stains out. People hang them on the line to let the sun bleach them for example, I would only want to be doing that if I really HAD to! Plus, I don’t have a garden to […]

When I was about eleven years old we used to watch a programme on television called Challenge Anneka. It was one of the Saturday night entertainment spots for my generation of children and along with ‘Noel’s House Party ‘ and ‘Blind Date’, was one of my favourites!   One of the episodes I remember was the challenge for Anneka to get a load of celebrities to help make a children’s tape. As with many of the episodes the challenge was […]

It’s hard to believe in this day and age that children are still starving to death in the world. We use the phrase ‘I’m starving’ so flippantly and probably without even thinking that for some it isn’t just a flip comment but a very real circumstance. Drought and poverty cause malnutrition to children. Somewhere this morning as we leave some of our breakfast because we’re not that keen on what we’re eating there is a little child just like mine […]

When I was little my eyes were always drawn to the adverts during children’s prime time television programmes – I was a little consumer. I knew exactly which toys and gizmos I was interested in and would then spend hours pouring over the toy catalogues afterwards marking pages and leaving my parents in the full knowledge of what I wanted for Christmas! Florence is exactly the same and is always declaring she’d like such and such then finding it in the […]

We were very happy to take part in the #Hungry2Happy Challenge set by Britmums using Richmond Mini Meatballs in our recipe! We hope you enjoy our quick and easy meal which my little ones thought was fab! I like to make food fun as it really gets my two interested in eating, something they’re not generally keen to take much interest in. The Richmond meatballs were actually of a much higher meat content than I had presumed and I was […]