This time last week I was flinging random things in a bag for an overnighter in west Wales with my buddy Katy from Modern Mummy. I lived in Wales when I was a baby until I was five but aside from one fleeting visit to Cardiff for an audition when I was about 20 I haven’t been back; I was very excited to finally be making a trip. Saying that, Wales, west Wales in particular, is a long way from […]

Last summer the children and I were invited to a party where we were introduced to The Irish Fairy Door for the very first time. We delved into a magical world where all children can have a real live fairy, sent straight by Queen Kate of Fairyland to come and live with them. All you have to do is choose a door, give it a home in your bedroom, leave a key out for a fairy to claim and then… If […]

If you have children, girls OR boys, they you will probably have heard of the Disney film ‘Frozen’. There’s no getting away from it really is there and although I did try and resist Disney magic for my household, something about it just meant we couldn’t. Is it commercial? Yes. Is it big business? Of course! But… They just know what they’re doing over at Disney HQ and when you’re that much of an expert I suppose it doesn’t really […]

In our house, ever since the Queen’s jubilee when F was really quite tiny, the Union Jack has been known as a ‘Jubilee’. And you have to say it in a really high pitched voice otherwise you’re not saying it right! We were watching the jubilee celebrations on TV and had flags to wave. We’d gone all out and completely got into it despite not really being Royalists as it was more a case of an excuse for a party. […]

It’s been a while coming but after needing something new for a long time I have finally unboxed my latest camera and I am beyond thrilled with it! My old DSLR has had so many knocks and scrapes and is SO huge that I needed something sleeker, slicker and smaller (I love alliteration). In actual fact J bought this for me at Christmas but because we were moving and so busy I didn’t want to start using it right away. I […]

It was another day in London for me today, this time to see what Sainsbury’s have in store for the spring of 2016 and as I drove out to Diss this morning through driving rain it was kind of hard to image getting anywhere close to a new spring season vibe. The train into East London didn’t thunder towards any better weather unfortunately and by the time I arrived in my old yard to pick up some post at the […]

This Easter will be our first holiday at our new home. I’m a little bit gutted that we have to wait for SO long until I can decorate the new house for Christmas so I’m seizing Easter as my opportunity to decorate, bake and feast like we’ve never done before. We used to live in a tiny 2 bed flat with no garden and we could rarely have visitors as there wasn’t enough space for US let alone anyone else. […]

So yesterday I popped into London (I’m calling it that as it makes me feel better, in reality it takes a couple of hours from our new house in the country and is hardly popping anywhere) to see the guys from B&Q. Now, the last time I worked with them was at Christmas when I bought and decorated our tree from the DIY store. We had a great time and our Christmas decs were ace but this visit was to […]

If you’ve been labouring in your garden this year, you’ll loath to see it decay this winter. But that doesn’t have to happen! Of all the ways you can keep your garden healthy over the cold months, how many of these did you know? Trim it back Fruit trees, readily available at places such as Ashridge Nurseries, benefit from winter pruning between November and March. Trim fruit trees to four main branches, as doing so will increase their productivity in […]

Mud, mud, glorious mud. Dogs and other animals. Driving around country lanes at break neck speed with no seeming cause for concern. Shops which have opening and closing times. Paint colours with ridiculous monikers such as ‘Elephant’s Breath’. Darkness falling across the land. It may seem odd to you that I randomly chose to live in a small country village having only ever been a resident of city life but I had my reasons and I stand by them. Although […]