Lil’ Zelfs, series 5 of the Zelf world, have just launched and are as fabulous and more so than all that have gone before it! My children think they’re great, in any colour, and both of them play super imaginative games with them! For Florence it’s all about the hair and Jimmy just likes having a funny little creature in his pocket, either way, they’re besotted! We were sent two Zelfs from the new series and to Florence’s delight they […]
I’ve just turned 36 (oh my) and yet even to this very day I have to borrow from the bank of Mum and Dad sometimes! It’s a bit embarrassing but in this day and age it’s nigh on impossible to get on the property ladder without some sort of footballer type wage or lottery win and I’m forever grateful to our parents for lending/giving us money when we embarked on that first rung. It wasn’t so much that we didn’t […]
Punchdrunk are well known for not just offering a theatre experience but rather more than that with their productions making them interactive pieces the audience are thoroughly involved in. They call it ‘immersive theatre’ where they offer freedom to explore the imaginative world of one of their shows. Interestingly they work with adult theatre mostly but with their latest production they have invited children over the age of six to come and experience the Punchdrunk magic and with their production of […]
I’m too young (not something I find myself saying often) to say that I remember The Clangers from their first time around but even though the show stopped broadcasting in 1974 (I wasn’t born until 1979), I still knew exactly who they were. When I was a child it was way before the likes of YouTube and personal tablets so unlike Florence, who watches old shows from my youth on her iPad, I didn’t actually get to see them at […]
I love the film ‘Sliding Doors’ which portrays life changing on the basis of what has or hasn’t gone before it? If we do something one way would the end result be different or the same? Fate or just one moment in time altering the course of destiny forever? Another film, one which I could watch over and over, has a similar concept when it comes to moments in time changing everything forever. ‘One Day’, which was Richard Curtis’s last […]
As people who know me know, I am a massive buggy fanatic. I’ve loved them since I was a child playing with my dolls and when I became an adult I knew which set of wheels I was going to purchase even before I knew when I’d like to have the children to put in one. I’m not entirely sure what it is I love so much about pushing a pram? I just do! But I do know, as with […]
On Sunday we went with the children and friends to the very last day of the British Summer Time Festival. I’d run a competition on my blog to win tickets and the more I wrote about it the more it made me want to go myself! I knew it’d be a great day out for the whole family with a really chilled festival vibe and I just had a hunch that even though the acts were geared up for little ones […]
When over 2,000 adults took part in a survey about tooth care in their families it was revealed that one in five parents don’t have the time to oversee children cleaning their teeth. Two minutes is the recommended time that we brush but it’s no surprise the children aren’t being observed when the survey also flagged up that more than two thirds of the adults brushed for less than the recommended time themselves! Apparently only 15% of them were informed of […]
Being married to a blogger means that my life in words (and pictures) is documented on social media ALL the time. I don’t mind really but it also means when I go out to a football match (Norwich just went up, up, UP) I have to cope with the fact when I get home, a little bit worse for a couple of beers (aherm), I am likely to have a photograph of my snoring face plastered on Twitter and none […]
I missed the launch party for a new vegetarian range at Tesco a few weeks ago but have seen many, many good things on social media about it since. Tesco’s new Vegetarian Kitchen is made up from a selection of ready meals and items like mushroom burgers or cheese and leek sausages (which are just up my street) and the social media world has been alight with positive reports! I was asked if I’d like to try some of the […]
